"Sometimes surprising things happen in your life, so you have to take it just as it comes," says Magdalena Kozena. The Czech mezzo-soprano had little option when her appearance at the Proms last year ...

Vocal recitals are rare enough in Baltimore that even a program of familiar lieder would qualify as a novelty. A program of way-off-the-beaten-path songs? That’s beyond cool. Magdalena Kozena, the ...

Magdalena Kozena, mezzo-soprano; Prague Philharmonia; Michel Swierczewski, conductor. Deutsche Grammophon, $16.99 Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena has made some respectable Baroque recordings with ...

BERLIN — Magdalena Kozena, one of today’s most versatile mezzo-sopranos, has never chosen a predictable path. With her flair for Baroque music, flexible voice and striking looks, she won comparisons ...

Has the reign of the soprano diva come to an end? Are we entering an age when the mezzo-soprano rules the operatic roost? The pre-eminence of mezzos such as Cecilia Bartoli, Vesselina Kasarova and ...

Some music events are just plain snake-bit. Tuesday night's brief, melancholy recital by Magdalena Kozená, presented in Herbst Theatre by San Francisco Performances, was one. Presenter Ruth Felt began ...

Last month Magdalena Kozena, a statuesque, blow-dried blonde Valkyrie in a shimmering turquoise gown, stood on the stage of Barbican Hall and tore into an aria from Handel's oratorio, Ariodante.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The operas of Mozart hold such irrepressibly vivid and contrasting arias that it is surprising more singers ...