Karita Mattila

AKA:
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1960-09-05

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Káťa Kabanová

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Katia Kabanova

The oppressive atmosphere before a storm and the tragic fate of a tormented young woman form the indivisible elements of "Katia Kabanova". The opera's action is set in a small Russian village around ...
Genre :Music

Kostelnicka Buryjovka

2021-10-09 0

Royal Opera House: Jenůfa

When a beautiful young woman in rural Moravia becomes unexpectedly pregnant, she learns that love is sometimes only skin-deep. Asmik Grigorian as Jenůfa in her Covent Garden debut and Karita Mattila ...
Genre :Music

Elizabeth de Valois

1996-03-01 9.2

Verdi: Don Carlos

Luc Bondy's 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in Paris. These seven performances were blessed with an all-star cast, loaded with important singers either st ...
Genre :Music

Herodias

2025-03-07 5.595

Seven Veils

Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows he ...
Genre :Drama

Leonora

2003-10-15 10

Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio

Two years prior to the opening scene, the nobleman Florestan has exposed or attempted to expose certain crimes of the nobleman Pizarro. In revenge, Pizarro has secretly imprisoned Florestan in the pri ...
Genre :Music

Donna Elvira

1990-04-05 6.2

Don Giovanni

Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who brings excitement with him and leaves destruction it his wake has always attracted top singing actors, ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Leokadja Begbick

2019-07-06 0

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialization of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money ...
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La Zia Principessa

2022-08-13 0

Puccini: Il trittico

Genre :Music

Herself

2022-05-18 0

Total Karita

The two parts of the evening showcase two opposite extremes of emotion. Firstly, Poulenc’s powerful La voix humaine (The Human Voice) tells the touching story of an abandoned woman. The opera monologu ...
Genre :Music

Herodias

2022-10-27 0

Salomé (Opéra de Paris)

Salome, princess of Judea, the daughter‑in‑law of King Herod, finds life in her father‑in‑law’s palace dreary. Her curiosity is roused when she hears the voice of Jochanaan, a prophet held prisoner by ...
Genre :Music

Self - Soprano

2015-02-02 0

Mozart: Requiem: Karajan Memorial Concert

Claudio Abbado leads the Berlin Philharmonic and the Swedish Radio Choir in a performance of Mozart's Requiem at the Salzburg Cathedral to commemorate the 10th anniversary of renowned Austrian conduct ...
Genre :Music

Leonora

2000-06-02 10

Beethoven: Fidelio

Genre :Music

2001-12-08 10

Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg

James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pape, in this production of Wagner's comic opera, recorded live at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 200 ...
Genre :Music

Self

1996-04-27 0

Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I could not stop watching these discs. Let me say this ...
Genre :Music

Floria Tosca

2009-10-10 0

The Met — Tosca

Puccini’s musical thriller of lust, murder, and politics is one of the most dramatically riveting operas in the repertoire. Luc Bondy’s production, with sets by Richard Peduzzi and costumes by Academy ...
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Manon Lescaut

2008-02-16 0

Manon Lescaut – The Met

One of today’s most compelling singing actresses, Karita Mattila takes on the irresistible role of Manon Lescaut, the headstrong young woman torn between a life of luxury and the call of her true love ...
Genre :Music

Salome

2008-10-11 0

Strauss: Salome

It is no wonder that Met audiences have gone wild over Karita Mattila’s sizzling Salome. Indisputably one of the greatest Salomes of our time, Mattila utterly incarnates Oscar Wilde’s petulant, willfu ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Maria Boccanegra

2002-06-04 0

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Giuseppe Verdi's one prologue, three act opera featuring libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito is performed before a live audience at Florence's Teatro Comunale in this release featuring ...
Genre :Music, Drama, History

Madame de Croissy

2019-05-11 0

Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmélites

Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the classic John Dexter production of Poulenc’s devastating story of faith and martyrdom. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard sings the touching role of Blanche and soprano Karita ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Emilia Marty

2010-11-10 0

The Makropulos Case

The seductive diva Emilia Marty has broken hearts for over 300 years and yet she doesn’t look a day past 30. Now that the magical elixir granting her eternal youth is wearing off, can she seduce her w ...
Genre :Music

Plotina

2020-08-10 0

Hadrian

Rufus Wainwright's original opera finds Emperor Hadrian devastated after his lover Antinous drowns in the Nile River. While matters of state encroach on his grief, and advisors clamour for war against ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Despina

2020-10-01 0

Covid Fan Tutte

Autumn season at the opera opens with Covid fan tutte, starring leading Finnish soloists The first opera in the autumn repertoire will be Covid fan tutte, featuring for example soprano Karita Mattila ...
Genre :Music

2020-11-25 0

Rusalka

The libretto of the most well known opera by Dvořak, which premiered in Prague in 1901, is inspired by the Czech version of the Central European folktale, one we also know as Undine (1811) by Friedric ...
Genre :Music

Self - Soprano

2013-06-03 0

Beethoven: The Symphonies

Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. 1.Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21 2. Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 36 3. Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica ...
Genre :Music

Self

2000-06-08 0

Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin

Beethoven: Concerto N° 2 for Piano and Orchestra; Symphony N° 9 ...
Genre :Music

La zia principessa

2025-07-18 0

Il Trittico

Three colours, three moods, three registers. And yet Puccini conceived this triptych as a whole from the outset. He interweaves these three one-act operas, from Il tabarro, a drama of passion set on t ...
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La zia principessa

2025-05-16 0

Il Trittico – Opéra national de Paris

Three colours, three moods, three registers. And yet Puccini conceived this triptych as a whole from the outset. He interweaves these three one-act operas, from Il tabarro, a drama of passion set on t ...
Genre :Music