“Ms. Mattila and Jorma Silvasti are vocally resplendent as the romantic leads.”
– The New York Times
Finnish tenor Jorma Silvasti was heard in 2007 season as Laca in Jenùfa at the Metropolitan Opera and Shuysky in Boris Godunov at the Vienna State Opera. He opens the 2007-2008 seasons bring him at the Santa Cecilia in Rome with Beethoven’s 9th Symphony , followed by Steva in Jenufa at the LA Opera, Strasbourg as Floristan in Fidelio and to Helsinki as Max in Der Frieschütz.
Mr. Silvasti debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 2004 as Boris in Kata Kabanova. He has been heard in recent seasons as Adolar in Weber’s Euryanthe in Amsterdam and Strasbourg, Loge in Das Rheingold at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer at Berlin’s Deutsche Staatsoper, Edmund in the world premiere of Sallinen’s King Lear and the title role of Peter Grimes in Helsinki, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in Toulouse, and Laca in Jenùfa at Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera and in Toulouse. Also sang Erik and Loge at the Bayreuth Festival, Erik at the Hamburg State Opera, Max in Der Freischütz at the New Israeli Opera and Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the title roles of Idomeneo and Parsifal in Brussels, and Jeník in The Bartered Bride at Covent Garden.
His recordings include Jenufa under the baton of Bernard Haitink with Karita Mattila, Jerry Hadley and Anja Silja with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra on the Erato label, Das Lied von der Erde with the Lahti Chamber Ensemble under the baton of Osmo Vanska recorded under BIS (Sweden) and Sibelius' The Tempest with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste on the Ondine label.