Young Karita Mattila sings Toivo Kuula

[SamiTheVoice]

nice... does anybody know, where this was filmed?

[thedivakiller]

She was better. Now she sings like Garbage with so so bad taste.

[starbreez3]

I don't know why but her timbre reminds me of Tarja Turunen

[KattiKatja]

@starbreez3 Good point!

[opus88888]

@starbreez3 This is good music, not metal.

[starbreez3]

@opus88888 I know right! Sorry I didn't mean to compare, just her voice reminds me a little bit of young Tarja Turunen (:, and I'm sorry but Nightwish is also good music, atleast for me.

[vasrach]

beautiful song!beautiful voice!brava!

[SieglindeMoos]

amazing how mature she was already at 22!

[papermason]

She's so wonderful, I saw Karita doing a modern dress Fidelio on TV with our own Ben Heppner a few years back, it was amazing. Greetings from Canada!!

[elinalaula]

I will be putting up some of her Finnish music, so if you interested, check out my profile :-)

[SVENSKSOPRAN]

My God...twentytwo - so deep yet simple always and such a glorious natural sound! Ouf! Did she take on too big things too soon you think?

[ilbacioditosca]

I don´t know why people reject your question even when she sung lots of heavy repertoire young like Bjoerling singing Trovatore at 22 too.

But they had that maturity.

[SDCmorg]

Wow... If she ever releases a CD of Finnish songs I'd buy it at once. It's mesmerizingly haunting. Thanks a bunch for posting, leloriot! :o)

[elinalaula]

"Sydan Suomessa". I have it; it's INCREDIBLE.

[Annderss]

@SDCmorg: I just read you comment and if you haven't found Karita Mattila's recordings of Finnish Songs, you can try to find these ones:

-Sibelius Songs (Ondine)

-From the Heart of Finland (Ondine)

-Lauluja merelle (Ondine)

[zafireh]

how old was she here?

[leloriot]

The video clip is from 1982, so she was 22.

[Natarwen]

I love Karita Mattila... and I love Scandinavian composers...

[puukarhu]

hienoa Karita.