Photo: Petr Veber, Czech Radio
Czech-born mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená (born on May 26, 1973) is one of the bright lights of world opera. Although based in Britain, she returns regularly to Czechia to perform and was one of the biggest attractions of this year’s Prague Spring Festival together with the award-winning Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida.
Magdalena Kožená studied at the Brno Conservatory and Bratislava’s Academy of Performing Arts winning several major prizes at home and abroad, the most significant of which was the Sixth International Mozart Competition in Salzburg.
On the opera stage, she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2002 as Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and first appeared at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in 2003 as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, where she has been a regular guest since.
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