Sunhae Im

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Sunhae Im (born January 15, 1976 in Cholwon , South Korea ) is a South Korean opera and concert singer (lyric coloratura soprano ).

Career

Sunhae Im studied from 1994 to 1998 at the College of Music at Seoul National University and with Roland Hermann at the Karlsruhe University of Music . In 1997 she won first prize in the Korean Schubert Society competition and the Grand Prix of the tenth Korean youth and music competition. In May 2000 she was a finalist in a competition in Brussels .

In February 2000, Sunhae Im made her debut at the Frankfurt Opera under Paolo Carignani as Barbarina in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro . The following season she sang Valetto and Amor in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea . From 2001 to 2004 she was a member of the Hannover Opera and appeared in roles such as Zerlina, Blondchen, Barbarina, Papagena, Adele, Cupido (in Orphée aux enfers by Jacques Offenbach ) and Yniold in Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy .

Im sang u. a. under Herbert Blomstedt , Frans Brüggen , Riccardo Chailly , William Christie , Marcus Creed , Wolfgang Gönnenwein , Philippe Herreweghe , Christopher Hogwood , René Jacobs , Kent Nagano and Andreas Spering .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Sunhae Im at Bach Cantatas (English)