bestmaster3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Elsa is one of the more thankless rolesin the Wagner repertory - over 700lines of ABSOLUTELY beautiful melodyto sing with virtually no characterdevelopment or directiojn of motivation, then almost silent when she breaks down in the final scene and has her finest actingopportunity- many of the greatest Wagner artists sound marvelous in one or two productions in their early career, then go on to other Wagner operas or else take on the ore dramatic and satisfying role of Ortrud.Arrow

Heraopera (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

BRAAAAAAVA!Her timbre her technique her interpretation are individual and her voice is not a haretone !!!!!!!BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVA!

ShawDAMAN (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yay Wagner's music but don't yay Wagner... he wasn't the nicest guy on the block...

hansegam (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Opernklaus = King Heinrich

tubalooney (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Hi,who's singing King Heinrich?Thanks a lot

haripolit (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I also don't like the costumes and set but KARITA MATTILA is so divine that I keep coming back...

leomaruli (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Why not do it in Star Wars setting? :-D Kidding, I'm still not ready for a singing Princess Leia... operatically!

eppurs1muove (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I will write one - if you promise to post the scream on YouTube. But I totally agree with you - I can't believe how people always rant about "too modern" Wagner settings. I think Wagner's music craves for modern and innovative settings. For example, Syderberg's innovative Parsifal film serves the music perfectly

esclarmonde4 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

If I read another comment like "why does her clothes look modern ?" I will scream.

eppurs1muove (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

And Salome's premiere was by another Finn, Aino Ackté - but Karita even lived years in my neighbouring house, but I never saw her (busy girl). (I "talk to stragers", and would have suggested her to sing twice the "müdgewordenen" instead of the much more coommon long "Aaaaaaaa-ugen" in "September", but she obviously read my thoughts, because on the Berlin record she aready does that (it matters, sounds better when "sordino"...)