Preparing to write this article, I've fallen in love. Not with a person; but with a seven-minute track. It's a 17th-century setting by Johann Christoph Bach of one of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, in ...

Rising star: Magdalena Kozená is sceptical about the broader canvas of opera. 'The world around opera is so crazy,' she says. 'Too much phoniness and pretending to smile' THE man on the Clapham ...

"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 ...

SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - It's not official, but Czech soprano Magdalena Kozena is without doubt an ambassador of song for her native country, and at a critical moment, too. With Czech Republic ...