Sunhae IM
[Back]Sunhae Im was born in South Korea. She studied at the College of Music/Seoul National University and with Roland Hermann at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe.
Sunhae Im made her operatic debut in 1999 at the Frankfurt Opera and later joined the ensemble
of the Hanover Opera were she could be heard as Zerlina, Blondchen in Entführung aus dem Serail, Adele and Barbarina/Nozze,
She awas invited to sing Les Paladins by Rameau in Basel and Orpheus and Euridice by Gluck in Paris and Epidaurus.
René Jacobs was the conductor of Don Chiscotte in Sierra Morena by Conti at the Festival in Innsbruck, for Clemenza di Tito (Servilia) in Brussels, Paris, Cologne, for Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Der geduldige Sokrates by Telemann in Innsbruck and Baden-Baden, for Idomeneo (Ilia) in Valladolid, Cologne, Brussels, Paris, for Eurilla in Orlando Paladino in Innsbruck and Berlin and for Papagena in Zauberflöte in Paris, Berlin and Aix-en-Provence. Again with René Jacobs Euridice in Orfeo and Marienvesper by Monteverdi in Berlin, Vienna and Francfort.
She also appeared with Fabio Biondi in Händel's Silla in Rom, in Mozart's Ascanio in Alba in Parma and London, in Vivaldi's Bajazet in Parma and Yokohama.
In April 2008 Sunhae Im made a much acclaimed debut with conductor M. Honeck as Ilia in Idomeneo at the Stuttgart Opera, same success in Stuttgart as Susanna. In 2009 she sang Zerlina with Ivan Fischer in Budapest and made her debut with Ilia and M° Chung at the Korean National Opera and also sang Adina there.
In addition to her operatic work, Sunhae Im has worked with renowned conductors such as
Frans Brüggen (Florence, Lucca, Berlin and Munich), Herbert Blomsted (Dresden and Leipzig), Kent Nagano (Berlin), Riccardo Chailly (Milan), William Christie (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Lyon, Paris, Strasbourg, Granada, Washington, Chicago and New York), Sylvain Cambreling (Bad Ems), Michael Gielen (Berlin) Lothar Zagrosek (Berlin), Sigiswald Kuijken (Weimar, Paris, Lucerne, Lausanne, Valladolid), Christopher Hogwood (Berlin), Marek Janowski (Berlin), Manfred Honeck (Pittsburgh) and Ton Koopman (New York).
Her versatile concert repertoire includes the Passions of Bach, Händel, Mozart concerts arias and Masses as well as Haydn's Creation and The Seasons.
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