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Born in the Czech city of Brno, Magdalena Kožená studied voice and piano at the Brno Conservatory and at Bratislava's Academy of Performing Arts.
Magdalena Kožená, Lady Rattle is a Czech mezzo-soprano....
Magdalena Kožená
Czech mezzo-soprano (born 1973)
Magdalena Kožená, Lady Rattle (Czech:[ˈmaɡdalɛnaˈkoʒɛnaː]; born 26 May 1973) is a Czechmezzo-soprano.
Early life
Kožená was born in Brno in Czechoslovakia. Both her parents had come originally from Bohemia, to the west. She was born one of the two daughters of a mathematician father and a biologist mother.
Her father died when she was eleven.[1] As a child she sang in Kantiléna [cs], the Children's and Youth Choir headed up by Ivan Sedláček [cs] and attached to the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra.[2] It was, however, as a professional pianist that she planned to make her career until 1987 when she injured her hand in a sports accident at school: this led her to focus on training for a singing career.[1] From 1987 to 1991 she studied voice at Brno Conservatory with Neva Megová and Jiří Peša, and from 1991 to 1995 she was a student of Eva Blahová at Bratislava Drama