Magdalena Kožená

L'Incoronazione di Poppea (2023)

Love, power and ambition meet on the stage of the Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona with L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi directed by Jordi Savall and directed by Calixto Bieito. ...

Margreet Honig – True Singing (2023)

Margreet Honig, eighty-four years old, is an internationally sought-after Dutch singing teacher. She teaches all over Europe and works with world-famous singers. She has developed her very own way of working. ...

Kaija Saariaho: Innocence (2021)

The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival. Finland is the setting but the protagonists come from the four corners of Europe: a Finnish groom and his Romanian bride, a French mother-in-law and a ...

Edward Elgar - The Dream of Gerontius (2019)

Newman's poem tells the story of a soul's journey through death, and provides a meditation on the unseen world of Roman Catholic theology. Gerontius (a name derived from the Greek word geron, "old man") is a devout Everyman. Elgar's setting uses most of th ...

Hippolyte et Aricie (2019)

Staatsoper Berlin's new production of Rameau's tragédie lyrique, directed by Alletta Collins; featuring costumes, sets and lighting designed by Ólafur Eliasson; and musical direction by Simon Rattle, who makes his debut with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestr ...

Waldbühne 2018: Goodbye Sir Simon! (2018)

The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland - Champs-Elysée (2017)

In the new production of the Return of Ulysses at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées all the ingredients were gathered for a successful show: the music of Monteverdi, a mythological story, a wonderful orchestra on period instruments, baroque specialists lik ...

Silvesterkonzert der Berliner Philharmoniker 2017 - Mit Sir Simon Rattle und Joyce DiDonato (2017)

Amours divins ! (2016)

The most famous Scenes and Arias from French operas ...

Médée - Theater Basel (2015)

Medea lives with Jason and her children in Corinth and becomes increasingly aware of her husband's betrayal of love. ...

Bach: St. John Passion (2014)

Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle was one of the outstanding events of the past season. As before with the St Matthew Passion, star director Peter Sellars succeeded in creating a staging which ma ...

Europakonzert 2013 from Prague (2013)

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Antonín Dvořák: Biblical Songs op. 99 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major op. ...

Mahler: Symphonies 1-7 (2011)

The unforgettable performances by Claudio Abbado and the LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA of Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 1−7 are newly celebrated in a set which showcases their exceptional quality – both audiovisual and musical. Claudio Abbado has set new stand ...

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Adagio from Symphony No. 10 (2011)

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Mahler's birth and just one month short of his own 85th birthday, composer-conductor Pierre Boulez marked his forty-five-year collaboration with the Cleveland Orchestra by directing this very special Mahler-only c ...

Lucerne Festival 2009 - Abbado conducts Mahler No. 4 Rückert Lieder (2010)

The charismatic and inspiring Claudio Abbado and the magnificent mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, hold the audience spellbound in this live recording from Lucerne Festival in Summer. Mahler's five Rückert-Lieder – i ...

Bach: St. Matthew Passion (2010)

Sir Simon Rattle was in no doubt: the performance of the St Matthew Passion which he realised together with the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin in 2010 was for him "the single most important thing we ever did here". Critics around the w ...

Idomeneo (2007)

Mozart's opera telling the story of the King of Crete who returns from Troy to find his his son in love with the daughter of the slain Paris, King of Troy. Conducted by Sir Roger Norrington and performed by Ramon Vargas, Magdalena Kozena, Anja Harteros and ...

Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice (2000)

Film recording of Robert Wilson's stage production of the opera by Gluck. John Eliot Gardiner conducts Berlioz's 1859 revision of Gluck's opera "Orphée et Eurydice" at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Soloists Magdalena Kožená, Madeline Bender and P ...