The golden voice of Austria

Angelika Kirchschlager

The golden voice of Austria

The third and final concert in the NCH Sunday Matinee Series on November 23 provides a golden opportunity to hear the Austrian mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, a superb interpreter of Mozart, Strauss and Mahler.

Kirchschlager originally trained as a pianist but quit because “my nerves didn’t work – I always had to play from memory and I always got stuck’’. However, her switch to the vocal instrument had immediate ...