Fever

"Karita Mattila has good go at scat singing and in the delivering climactic phrases that swing rather than hold the air like operatic high notes."
Mike Ashman, Gramophone, March 2008

A big show featuring the versatile Karita Mattila.... Recommended, not only for Fans of Karita Mattila.
Markus Wilks, Das Opernglas, April 2008

Fever is Karita Mattila's long-awaited light music and jazz album, which includes popular standards by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein II, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and others.

This recording has been cut from several live performances: Finnish star soprano Karita Mattila's long-time dream of performing jazz and light music standards in a tailored show came to reality during the second half of August 2007, when Tampere Hall in Finland produced four sold-out Fever concerts featuring the Finnish "body-and-soul diva" in front of an excited audience. The programme included favourite songs from the Great American Songbook and Brazilian Bossa Nova. All songs were arranged by Finnish jazz icon Kirmo Lintinen who, together with his band and the vocal trio How Many Sisters, backed Karita Mattila as musical director, conductor and pianist throughout the evenings. Set and costumes were designed by Markku Piri who developed the original artistic concept together with Karita Mattila. Stage and choreography were devised by Tiina Lindfors. The musical performances were unanimously praised by the Finnish press.