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 Dušica BijelićSusanna BranchiniScilla CristianoElena KelessidiDimitra KotidouLucie KaňkováHye-Youn LeeJulie Martin du TheilEkaterina SadovnikovaAnna StylianakiLetitia VitelaruElena Zelenskaya Karina KheruntsNefeli KotseliLarisa KostyukClaudia MarchiVictoria Yarovaya Martina Mikelic Arnold BezuyenLuciano BotelhoLuis GomesDimitris PaksoglouAngelos Samartzis Marcin BronikowskiMichel de SouzaAnooshah GolesorkhiGyula NagyDimitri Platanias Tiziano BracciDavide Damiani Luiz-Ottavio FariaJihoon Kim |
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 Korean bass Jihoon Kim studied at the Seoul National University and the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where he graduated in 2 years with top grades and summa cum laude. He joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 2011, becoming a Jette Parker Principal in Season 2013/14 and a Principal of The Royal Opera in Season 2014/15. He has appeared in over 200 performances going on to have considerable success in many International Competitions. This introduced the singer, who was for me the star of the evening, the South Korean bass Jihoon Kim, again a former Covent Garden Young Artist who is now becoming a star across the world. His voice is sensational, deep dark and powerful; it doesn’t seem possible that such power can come from such a slight frame….but my favourite of the evening was his solo performance of “ella giammai m’amo” (she doesn’t love me). This was one of my father’s favourite arias. I remember taking him to the farewell concert of the great Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff, who was then 75 and didn’t sing this quite demanding aria in his concert but sang the first few lines for my father when we went to see him at the stage door! Kim is in my opinion fit to be compared to Christoff and I predict he will become a great star. Edinburgh Music Review – Hugh Kerr – 18th February 2023 Roles include:
Beethoven SYMPHONY NO. 9 London Philharmonic Orchestra & Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra; Haydn NELSON MASS Hallé Orchestra; Mozart REQUIEM MASS Il Duomo di Milano; Rossini PETITE MESSE SOLONELLE Accademia di Santa Cecilia at the Vatican; Verdi MESSA DA REQUIEM in France and Italy Conductors and directors with whom he has collaborated include: Maurizio Benini, Mark Elder, Dan Ettinger, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniel Oren, Antonio Pappano, Donato Renzetti, Daniele Rustioni, Stuart Stratford. John Copley, Stefan Herheim, Kasper Holten, David McVicar, Elijah Moshinsky, Laurent Pelly, David Pountney. Reviews: South Korean bass Jihoon Kim will also be welcome back anytime. He stepped in here to replace Brindley Sherratt, having been part of the entirely different cohort of singers in November’s performances of The Verdi Collection in Aberdeen and Inverness. He has an enormous vocal instrument for his compact frame, and although less mobile than either Nakamura or Auty, used it very expressively. Vox Carnyx – Keith Bruce – 10th February 2023 Jihoon Kim enters here as King Filippo II, an excellent performance made all the more impressive by the fact that he stepped in at the last minute. The Glasgow Guardian – Constance Roisin – 13th February 2023 This introduced the singer, who was for me the star of the evening, the South Korean bass Jihoon Kim, again a former Covent Garden Young Artist who is now becoming a star across the world. His voice is sensational, deep dark and powerful; it doesn’t seem possible that such power can come from such a slight frame… but my favourite of the evening was his solo performance of “ella giammai m’amo” (she doesn’t love me). This was one of my father’s favourite arias. I remember taking him to the farewell concert of the great Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff, who was then 75 and didn’t sing this quite demanding aria in his concert but sang the first few lines for my father when we went to see him at the stage door! Kim is in my opinion fit to be compared to Christoff and I predict he will become a great star. Edinburgh Music Review – Hugh Kerr – 18th February 2023 * * *
• Scottish Opera deliver a spectacular collection of Verdi’s greatest hitsIn the blink of an eye, we are in Spain witnessing Don Carlos, with Jihoon Kim and Roland Wood assuming the roles of King Filippo and Rodrigo. The following solo aria sung by Korean bass Kim is a particularly moving highlight, with the audience fully absorbed in the plight of his jilted king. The Wee Review – 26th November 2022 --> Download (Pdf)             |
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