Karita Mattila (pronounced KA-re-ta MATT-e-la) is a leading opera soprano. She was born Karita Marjatta Mattila on September 5, 1960 in Somero, Finland.
Mattila appears regularly in the major opera houses world-wide, 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 and Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg and w...
more
Karita Mattila (pronounced KA-re-ta MATT-e-la) is a leading opera soprano. She was born Karita Marjatta Mattila on September 5, 1960 in Somero, Finland.
Mattila appears regularly in the major opera houses world-wide, 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 and Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg and with top orchestras.
In 1983, Mattila won the first Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. The same year she graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she studied singing with Liisa Linko-Malmio. She then continued her studies with Vera Rozsa in London.
In 1985, she made her Covent Garden debut with the Royal Opera as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.
In 1988, she was seen as Emma in the first ever televised production of Schubert's Fierrabras at the Vienna State Opera.
On March 22, 1990, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut...
less
