Karita Mattila News

 
Mattila Bows Out From Met Production
New York Times (blog)
By DANIEL J. WAKIN Karita Mattila, the Finnish soprano, has dropped out of a new production of Verdi's “Ballo in Maschera” at the Metropolitan Opera planned for next season, the Met said on Thursday. Ms. Mattila, right, was to have sung the role of ...
Mattila withdraws from new Met Opera 'Ballo'CBS News
Carmen Giannattasio to Replace Sondra Radvanovsky in the Met's IL TROVATORE ...Broadway World

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Soprano Mattila withdraws from new Metropolitan Opera production of 'Un Ballo ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Soprano Karita Mattila has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Verdi's “Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball).” The Met said Thursday she will be replaced as Amelia by Sondra Radvanovsky, who will make her Met role ...
Finalists announced for new literary prizeKATV
Mattila withdraws from new Met Opera 'Ballo'MetroNews Canada

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Financial Times
Karita Mattila in Janacek's 'Makropulos Case' at the Met
New York Times
On Friday night Karita Mattila sang Marty when the Metropolitan Opera brought back the sleekly modern and inspired 1996 production by Elijah Moshinsky, last seen in 2001. Before we meet her we learn that Marty is a sensational opera singer, ...
Never gets old: Karita Mattila stars in Janacek's 'The Makropulos Case' at ...Washington Post
Mattila provides ageless artistry in Met's masterful “Makropulos Case”The Classical Review
The Makropulos Case, Metropolitan Opera, New YorkFinancial Times
The L Magazine -Broadway World
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New York Post
Mattila stars in Janacek's 'Makropulos' at Met
San Francisco Chronicle
Karita Mattila gave a performance for the ages — of course it was for the ages; she played 337-year-old Emilia Marty — when "The Makropulos Case" returned to the Met on Friday night after an 11-year absence. Having starred at the Met in "Jenufa ...
Nice quirk, if you can get itNew York Post

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Helsingin Sanomat
Karita Mattila to sing in Helsinki also in 2014
Helsingin Sanomat
According to information obtained by Helsingin Sanomat, the Finnish star soprano Karita Mattila will be singing with the Finnish National Opera also during the spring season of 2014. Mattila will perform the title role of Leoš Janácek's opera Jenufa ...


 
Radio Times
Karita Mattila takes on the role of a 337-year-old diva
Helsingin Sanomat
By Vesa Sirén in New York It looks like something very juicy is in the offing when the 51-year-old Finnish star soprano Karita Mattila makes a long-overdue reappearance at Finland's National Opera at the end of August, after a break of many years.
Metropolitan Opera: Janáček's The MakropulosRed River Radio
Janácek's The Makropulos CaseRadio Times

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Opera awards go to Peter Sellars and 4 singers
Wall Street Journal
On Sunday, the prestigious Opera News Awards went to the American theater whiz, and to Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, German soprano Anja Silja, Swedish baritone Peter Mattei and Finnish soprano Karita Mattila. Sellars says he "took the starch ...

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