One of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, Magdalena Kožená was born in Brno and studied in her hometown and in Bratislava.

Her recital appearances have taken her to London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Amsterdam,Vienna, Tokyo, San Francisco, to New York’s Alice Tully and Carnegie halls, and the leading European festivals – working with pianists including Daniel Barenboim, Yefim Bronfman, Malcolm Martineau, András Schiff and Mitsuko Uchida.

In concert she has collaborated with many of the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Berlin, Vienna, Rotterdam and Czech Philharmonic orchestras, the Philadelphia and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. She works with conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Mariss Jansons, Gustavo Dudamel, Bernard Haitink, Jiří Bĕlohlávek, Sir Roger Norrington and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Magdalena Kožená's wide opera repertoire spans works by Monteverdi, Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Strauss and Janáček and has appeared with the Salzburg festivals (Zerlina, Dorabella and Idamantes), Metropolitan Opera (Varvara, Cherubino, Dorabella and Idamantes), the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Aix festival (Cherubino), the Royal Opera House (La Cenerentola) and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (Melisande and Oktavian).

Magdalena Kožená is a Deutsche Grammophon artist.