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Music festivals belong to summer. Magdalena is returning to a pair of festivals whose audiences are eagerly awaiting her concerts: in her native Brno she will be closing the 29th year of the IMF Concentus Moraviae, of which she is the patron. In Verbier, Switzerland, audiences can look forward to her not only in a song recital, but also in Mahler's magnificent Symphony No. 3. more
Alcina: Enchanting return to Handel
New Pentatone´s recording of Alcina starring Magdalena in the title role is now available worldwide: "To perform a major Handel role with period instruments does not happen every day. To steal a major Handel role from sopranos and record it with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre happens only once in a lifetime," states Magdalena. more
New Year's plans
Magdalena said goodbye to last year as Mozart's Idamante, and she will step into this year as Sesto in a semi-staged production of Mozart´s opera La clemenza di Tito, which will be directed for Salzburg Mozart Week by its artistic director Rolando Villazón. more
Magdalena on-line
Live from Prague! Czech Philharmonic, Sir Simon Rattle and Magdalena join the celebrations of the Freedom & Democracy Day ans the 33rd anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. For the occasion, Magdalena and Sir Rattle as the Czech Phil season’s artists-in-residence have chosen songs by Maurice Ravel and Béla Bartók and the final symphony of Gustav Mahler—a hymn celebrating life and humanity.
On July 10 at 8.00 pm the Arte Concert channel brings a live stream of the performance of the new opera Innocence, written for the festival in Aix-en-Provence by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho. Magdalena sings the role of Waitress more