Comfortable shoes...
Following her recital on friday, Karita Mattila, made herself available for a considerable line of fans and seemed to delight in talking with them all. Her advice to a young singer was among the many snippets of conversation I caught. She related hearing a famous soprano asked the same question on the radio when she was 19 and she was dismayed to hear the singer tell her interviewer that singers should always wear comfortable shoes. "I was 19 and disappointed, but she was right."
Jeremy Eichler reviewed Ms. Mattla's recital for The Boston Globe: From Mattila: rare Finns, sketches of Spain:
"...the highlight of the first half was a set of works by four rarely heard Finnish composers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Toivo Kuula, Erkki Melartin, Oskar Merikanto, and Leevi Madetoja. The songs, broadly speaking, were of a late-Romantic flavoring but with distinctive modal touches, and two works referenced the joy conjured by the passage of the long winter into spring. One of them was Merikanto's "When the Sun Shines," which Mattila opened in gloriously full voice, emitting what felt like a brilliant flash of white light."
And Sandy McDonald reviewed the recital for EDGEBoston.com:
"If your experience of Finnish soprano Karita Mattila has been strictly aural to date, her stage presence could come as a surprise. She’s cute and strong - like a cross between a kewpie doll and a Valkyrie, with wide-set Garbo eyebrows and shoulders to match. At her Bank of American Celebrity Series solo recital on April 13, Mattila showed herself to be a supple, nuanced singer with astonishing staying power."
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