# The Irresistible Karita Mattila

> The Irresistible Karita Mattila – Karita Mattila. Ondine ODE 1171-2, CD, released March 2010. A best-of compilation, featuring Finnish superstar Karita…

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- **Work(s):** The Irresistible Karita Mattila
- **Performers:** Karita Mattila, soprano
- **Label:** Ondine
- **Catalogue no.:** ODE 1171-2
- **Format:** CD
- **Release date:** 1 March 2010
- **EAN / UPC:** 0761195117125
- **Tracks:** 13, total 52:19
- **Genres:** Crossover / Jazz, Opera, Vocal
- **Series:** Compilations

## Track listing

**Richard Wagner**

1. Dich teure Halle, from: Tannhäuser (3:28)

**Antonín Dvorák**

2. Měsíčku na nebi hlobokém, from: Rusalka (5:25)

**Giuseppe Verdi**

3. Ritorna vincitor, from: Aida (6:30)

**Giacomo Puccini**

4. Vissi d'arte, from: Tosca (2:56)

**Jean Sibelius**

5. Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte (The Tryst), Op. 37/5 (2:57)

**Lasse Mårtenson**

6. Myrskyluodon Maija (Stormscar's Maya) (5:25)

**Harold Arlen**

7. Over the Rainbow, from: The Wizard of Oz (4:52)

**Andrew Lloyd Webber**

8. Don't Cry for Me Argentina, from: Evita (5:15)

**Cole Porter**

9. Wunderbar, from: Kiss me Kate (2:09)

**Leonard Bernstein**

10. Somewhere, from: West Side Story (3:38)

**Frederick Loewe**

11. I Could Have Danced All Night, from: My Fair Lady (2:32)

**Jerome Kern**

12. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (3:42)

**Thelenious Monk & Cootie Williams**

13. 'Round Midnight (3:30)

## About this recording

A best-of compilation, featuring Finnish superstar Karita Mattila with opera arias, as well as songs from Broadway musicals and the Great American Songbook

Celebrated soprano Karita Mattila has proved herself to be irresistible in any musical genre. This compilation couples live performances of some of the world's best-loved opera arias together with the Finnish diva's unique interpretations of songs from Broadway musicals and the Great American Songbook. Included are two previously unreleased tracks from her earlier live recorded Fever album ([ODE 1105-2](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1105-2)): Misty (track 13) and 'Round Midnight (14).

These recordings showcase highlights from the past fifteen years of Karita Mattila's career, with studio recordings from 1995 (tracks 7–11) and 1997 (6), as well as live recordings from her 40th birthday concert at Helsinki's Hartwall Arena in 2000 (tracks 1–5) and from 2007 at Tampere Hall in Finland.

Karita Mattila is the biggest Finnish star on the international stage of classical music. She has been named by Musical America the “most electrifying actress of our day (who) drives the public into frenzies” (Musician of the Year 2005). This release marks her 50th birthday in 2010, coinciding with Ondine’s 25th anniversary.

## Features

Booklet with tracklist

## Press

A very attractive disc where one of the world’s leading opera singers proves that she has several other strings to her bow.

Göran Forsling, MusicWeb-International, September 2010

Deutsche Romantik und Wagner, Mozart und Richard Strauss, Janácek, Puccini und selbst die zeitgenössische Moderne - alles scheint diese Stimme bewältigen zu können. Eines ist sicher: Sie liefert sich der Musik aus, ihr Gesang sprüht vor draufgängerischem Engagement.

Werner Pfister, Fono Forum, August 2010

Die berühmte finnische Sopranistin Karita Mattila singt (...) als versierte Interpretin in verschiedenen Stilen und Gattungen: sei es im einfachen Lied, in der anspruchsvollsten Opernarie, im Musical oder in der Filmmusik, sie ist mit ihrer weitgestreckten, in der Tiefe wie in der Höhe kräftigen Stimme eine wunderbare Interpretin.

Rémy Franck, Pizzicato, Juni 2010

## Buy or stream

- [Buy](https://Ondine.lnk.to/ODE11712OW)

## Related pages

- [Harold Arlen (1905-1986)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/arlen-harold.md)
- [Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/bernstein-leonard.md)
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- [Frederick Loewe (1901-1988)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/loewe-frederick.md)
- [Thelenious Monk & Cootie Williams](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/monk-amp-cootie-williams-thelenious.md)
- [Lasse Mårtenson (1934-)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/m-rtenson-lasse.md)
- [Cole Porter (1891-1964)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/porter-cole.md)
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- [Richard Wagner (1813-1883)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/composers/wagner-richard.md)
- [Karita Mattila, soprano](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/artists/mattila-karita.md)

## Also recommended

- [Karita Mattila: Fever](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-1105-2.md): Karita Mattila, vocals · accompanied by pianist-conductor Kirmo Lintinen and his band (ODE 1105-2, 2007)
- [Karita Live!](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-968-2.md): Karita Mattila, soprano · Finnish RSO · Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor (ODE 968-2, 2000)
- [Karita Mattila: Lauluja merelle · (Songs by Lasse Mårtenson)](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-907-2.md): Karita Mattila, soprano · Jyväskylä Sinfonia · Riku Niemi, conductor (ODE 907-2, 1998)
- [Karita Mattila: Wonderful - favourites by Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Andrew Llyod Webber and others](https://ondine.eyelabel.com/catalogue/ode-848-2.md): Karita Mattila, soprano · Tapiola Sinfonietta · Pekka Savijoki, conductor (ODE 848-2, 1995)