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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The operas of Mozart hold such irrepressibly vivid and contrasting arias that it is surprising more singers ...

Last month Magdalena Kozena, a statuesque, blow-dried blonde Valkyrie in a shimmering turquoise gown, stood on the stage of Barbican Hall and tore into an aria from Handel's oratorio, Ariodante.

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 ...