Kathleen Kim

Interest in the Korean soprano Kathleen Kim has constantly grown since her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2007. 

The current season brings several role debuts including the title role in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at Sarasota Opera, La Fée in Massenet’s Cendrillon at Opéra de Lille, and the roles of Fire, Princess and the Nightingale in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges at the Glyndebourne Festival.  In concert she will sing Mozart’s Mass in C minor with the Oslo Philharmonic, conducted by Manfred Honeck.

In the past few seasons, she has sung several high-coloratura roles at the Metropolitan Opera, most recently as Chiang Ch’ing in Nixon in China, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by John Adams himself, and as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Also very well versed in the baroque style, Kim has performed for Central City Opera in Händel’s Rinaldo and Amadigi di Gaula, as well as Agrippina for Boston Lyric Opera.