Sae-Kyung Rim

INTRODUCTION

Sae-Kyung Rim is an impressive, dramatic Verdian/Verismo soprano with a strong voice, rich in nuances and colors.

She has won several international competitions in singing, including the “Giambattista Viotti” in Vercelli.

RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

Among the most recent and future engagements of the artist are:

• Cio Cio San/Madama Butterfly at Opera Australia in Sydney, Opera Hong Kong, Daegu Opera House, Seoul Arts Center, and Seougnam Opera House in South Korea;
• a role debut as Odabella/Attila, a role debut as Lady Macbeth/Macbeth, Abigaille/Nabucco, and Minnie/La fanciulla del West at the Korean National Opera;
• the title role in Aida at Daegu Opera House and Sejong Opera House;
• the title role in Tosca at Sejong Opera House;
• Maddalena/Andrea Chénier at Daegu Opera House;
• Leonora/La forza del destino and the title role in Tosca at the Seoul Arts Center;
• Puccini Opera Celebration Galà Concerts with Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane.

BIOGRAPHY

Sae-Kyung Rim enjoys a successful worldwide career, traveling from Asia to Europe to take on renowned parts and winning international competitions along the way. She is well known for her highly nuanced hallmark role as Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, which she has sung in over 150 performances across the world.

Her recent past engagements include Cio-Cio-San/Madama Butterfly at Arena di Verona, Theater Dortmund, Principal de Mallorca, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, at the Greek National Opera, at the Wiener Staatsoper, as well as in Budapest, Las Palmas, Bergen, Trondheim and at the Savonlinna Opera Festival; the title role in Tosca at the Wiener Staatsoper w. Domingo, Antonenko, Hampson; the title role in Aida at Arena di Verona, at the Korean National Opera, and in Munich and Tokyo; Leonora/Forza del Destino at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona; Abigaille/Nabucco at the Greek National Opera; the title role in Manon Lescaut at Hungarian National Opera in Budapest; Liù/Turandot at Theater Dortmund; Maddalena/Andrea Chenier in Seoul.

In Teatro alla Scala in Milan, she has performed in productions such as Dialogues des Carmelites by Poulenc, Rinaldo by Handel, Elektra by Richard Strauss, La Boheme by Puccini,  Fiordiligi/Così Fan Tutte and others under the direction of Riccardo Muti, Ottavio Dantone, Semyon Bychkov, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Niksa Bareza, Jeffrey Tate, Riccardo Chailly, Lothar Koenigs, Daniel Barenboim.

In Seoul, she has performed many leading roles in the past years such as Madame Lidoine/Les Dialogues des Carmelites by Poulenc, Amelia/Un Ballo in Maschera, Leonora/Forza del Destino, Marguerite/Mefistofele by Boïto, Tosca.

EDUCATION

Sae-Kyung Rim graduated in singing at the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan and in the course for opera singers Soloists dell ‘Accademia del Teatro alla Scala with Leyla Gencer.

Sae-Kyung Rim has been a professor at Chung-Ang University’s Faculty of Music in Seoul since 2020.