Karita Mattila

About Karita Mattila

Karita Mattila (born September 5, 1960 in Somero, Finland), is a leading opera soprano.

She won the first Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1983 and graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki where she studied with Liisa Linko-Malmio. She continued her studies in London with Vera Rozsa.

Mattila made her Covent Garden debut with the Royal Opera as Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte in 1985. On March 22, 1990, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni. She appears with top orchestras and in 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, Berlin Philharmoniker and Großes Festspielhaus in Salzburg.