14 Jun 2006

Karita Mattila, Barbican Hall, London

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/39f8ff34-fbc6-11da-b1a1-0000779e2340.html

mattila.pngBy Richard Fairman [Financial Times, 14 June 2006]

Packing for a recital tour must be quite a business for Karita Mattila. First there are the evening gowns (she wore two at this recital, one white and elegant, the other a more racy, sky-blue number). Then there are the piles of music from as many different countries. And finally there is the outsize personality that can leave an audience feeling mildly shell-shocked, uncertain whether they have in fact been in the presence of a clandestine member of the camp torch song brigade.