'I see a lot of sad stories''I see a lot of sad stories' Virtuoso she may be, but for Magdalena Kožená, singing is more about intensity and expression than perfect technique. Tom Service meets her Friday December 7, 2007
The Guardian
Magdalena Kožená wants to set the record straight. She's in London to make her belated debut at the Royal Opera House in Rossini's Cinderella, one of the most scintillating bel canto roles in the mezzo-soprano repertoire. She's gone on record recently suggesting that Rossini isn't high on her list of favourite composers, and even that his writing is dramatically one-dimensional and uninteresting. She tells me instead - just after she's finished rehearsals for the day and put her two-and-a-half-year-old, Jonas, to bed - that "it's true that I don't find in Rossini deep emotions, like for example, in Handel, but there is a different kind of joy of making music in it. It's extremely happy music, music which puts you in a good mood. It's very sparkling music, and you have to sing very fast, a lot of words. If you get it right, it's an achievement. It's a kind of pure pleasure of vocality and brilliance."
Magdalena Kožená wants to set the record straight. She's in London to make her belated debut at the Royal Opera House in Rossini's Cinderella, one of the most scintillating bel canto roles in the mezzo-soprano repertoire. She's gone on record recently suggesting that Rossini isn't high on her list of favourite composers, and even that his writing is dramatically one-dimensional and uninteresting. She tells me instead - just after she's finished rehearsals for the day and put her two-and-a-half-year-old, Jonas, to bed - that "it's true that I don't find in Rossini deep emotions, like for example, in Handel, but there is a different kind of joy of making music in it. It's extremely happy music, music which puts you in a good mood. It's very sparkling music, and you have to sing very fast, a lot of words. If you get it right, it's an achievement. It's a kind of pure pleasure of vocality and brilliance."
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