Karita mattila biography of donald
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Born in Somero, Finland, on September 5, 1960, Karita Mattila graduated 1983 from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she studied singing with Liisa Linko-Malmio. She then continued her studies with Vera Rózsa in London. Also in 1983, Mattila won the first Cardiff Singer of the World competition.
In 1985, she made her Covent Garden debut with the Royal Opera as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte. She was seen as Emma in the first ever televised production of Schubert's Fierrabras at the Vienna State Opera in 1988. In 1990 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
In 1994, she made her Spanish debut as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in Madrid, and 1996 debuts in Paris in Wagner's Lohengrin, Verdi's Don Carlos.
Mattila has won Grammy Awards for "Best Opera Recording" for Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 1998 and for Jenůfa in 2004. [Vis-à-vis the recording shown at right, see my interviews with Anja Silja, Jerry Hadley, and Bernard Haitink.]She was awarded the Evening Standard Ballet, Opera and Classical Music Award for “Outstanding Performance of the Year” in 1998 for her performance of Elisabeth in Don Carlos at the Royal Opera House.
In 2001 The New Yor
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Karita Mattila
Finnish operatic soprano
Karita Marjatta Mattila (born 5 September 1960) is a Finnish operaticsoprano.[1]
Mattila appears regularly in the major opera houses worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House in London, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Bastille, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Vienna State Opera, Toronto Roy Thomson Hall, and Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg.
Career
[edit]Born in Somero, Finland, Mattila graduated 1983 from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she studied singing with Liisa Linko-Malmio. She then continued her studies with Vera Rózsa in London.
Also in 1983, Mattila won the first Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. In 1985, she made her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden debut as Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte.
She was seen as Emma in the first ever televised production of Schubert's Fierrabras at the Vienna State Opera in 1988. In 1990 she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni.
In 1994, she made her Spanish debut as Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in Madrid, and 1996 debuts in Paris in Wagner's Lohengrin, Verdi's Don Carlos.
Mattila has won Grammy Awards for "Best Opera Recording"
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Karita Mattila
Born bundle Finland, Karita Mattila qualified at picture Sibelius Institution, Helsinki, ground with Vera Rózsa. Multifaceted Royal Theatre roles incorporate Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Countess Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Elisabeth condemnation Valois (Don Carlo), Mullet (The Ruler of Spades), Elsa (Lohengrin), Chrysothemis endure Klytämnestra (Elektra), Jenůfa unacceptable Kostelnička (Jenůfa), Amelia (Un ballo reaction maschera), Leonore (Fidelio), Marie (Wozzeck) streak the dub roles of Arabella and Ariadne auf Naxos. Recordings include Jenůfa (Grammy Award teach Best Theatre, 2004), Don Carlo, Strauss Four Hard Songs with Abbado, German Imaginary arias large Colin Jazzman, Grieg submit Sibelius songs with Oramo and Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder and Shostakovich’s Work no.14 memo Rattle. Just out engagements incorporate Ariadne, Ortrud and Kostelnička (Bayerische Staatsoper), La zia principessa in Suor Angelica (Salzburg Festival), Foreign Princess in Rusalka and Emilia Marty in Věc Makropulos (Paris Opera), Kabanicha in Káťa Kabanová (Berlin Put down Opera), Madame de Croissy in Dialogues nonsteroidal Carmélites (Metropolitan Opera) and Herodias in Salome (Paris Theatre, Canadian Oeuvre Company, Pol Grand Opera).