Beauty Across the Board

BY JAY NORDLINGER [NY Sun, 20 April 2007]
The Finnish soprano Karita Mattila is a sensation on the operatic stage: as Salome, to name only one role. But she is also a sensation on the recital stage, as she proved at Carnegie Hall four years ago. That was a dazzling, foot-stomping event. And she was good on Wednesday night, too, in the same hall.