"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 ...

One of the toughest tricks for a singer to pull off is putting a fresh face on each composer in a program. All too often, the Handel starts sounding like the Mozart, which in turn takes on too much of ...

Long-time – if occasional – recital partners Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida presented an evening of Debussy and Messiaen Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida have been giving song recitals ...

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.

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 ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...