Kathleen Kim

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Name Kathleen Kim

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Kathleen Kim is a Korean-American operatic coloratura soprano. Her repertoire includes roles in operas by Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi and Offenbach, among others, as well as in oratorios such as the Messiah and sacred works such as Mozart's Great Mass in C minor.

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Education

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Kim is a graduate of the Ryan Opera Center of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. During her training, she appeared in various operatic roles, including Adele in Die Fledermaus, the First Priestess in Iphigénie en Tauride, the page in Rigoletto, the milliner in Der Rosenkavalier and Frasquita in Carmen.

Career

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Kim made her début at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2007 as Barbarina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and since then sang at the Met in the roles of Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. She sang the role of Chiang Ch'ing in the Met's première of John Adams's Nixon in China.

Since her professional début, Kim has sung with major opera companies in numerous theatres across the world, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Opéra de Lille.

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Kim is an active presence on the concert stage, having been a soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in works such as Mahler's Eighth Symphony and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Kim made several role débuts in 2011, including her first performance in the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. In 2012, Kim sang in a performance of Adams's Nixon in China at the BBC Proms, and also sang Mozart's Mass in C minor with the Oslo Philharmonic.

Awards

Kim has been the recipient of many prizes and awards, including an award from the Sullivan Foundation, the Sarasota Opera Guild's Leo Rogers Scholarship and the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation's Rose Ann Grund Scholarship. She was a prize winner both the Mario Lanza Competition and the Liederkranz Competition, and a finalist in the MacAllister Awards.

Repertoire

Kathleen Kim's repertoire includes the following operatic roles:

Armida in Handel's Rinaldo at the Central City Opera House

Blonde in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Metropolitan Opera

Chiang Ch'ing in John Adams's Nixon in China at the Metropolitan Opera and the Chicago Opera Theater

La Fée in Massenet's Cendrillon at Opéra de Lille

Le Feu, la Princesse and le Rossignol in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Königin der Nacht in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte

Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Minnesota Opera

Lucia in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at Sarasota Opera

Marie in Donizetti's La fille du régiment at the Asociación Bilbaína de Amigos de la Ópera in Bilbao

Melissa in Handel's Amadigi di Gaula at the Central City Opera House

Olympia in Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann at the Metropolitan Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu and the Bayerische Staatsoper

Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at the Metropolitan Opera and the San Diego Opera

Poppea in Handel's Agrippina at the Boston Lyric Opera

Tytania in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Metropolitan Opera

Zerbinetta in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Metropolitan Opera

References

Kathleen Kim Wikipedia

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