Biography

“A splendidly bright soprano” (The New York Times) / “Among the best actor-singers I know” (René Jacobs) - Sunhae Im, a South Korean soprano, has been described as a bright and versatile lyric soprano with lightness and coloratura. She first gained her reputation in the field of early music and now performs a wide range of classical and non-classical music. With a mesmerizing voice and an irresistible stage presence, she is one of the world’s leading artists of her repertoire today. Ms. Im has appeared with many of the greatest conductors, performers, and opera companies of our time. Recent projects include Mozart’s La finta giardiniera (La Scala Opera’s Shanghai tour with Diego Fasolis), Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni (both with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and René Jacobs), Brahms’s German Requiem (in Tel Aviv with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, and in Winterthur with Musikkollegium Winterthur and Thomas Zehetmair), Handel’s Silla at the Enescu Festival (with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi), Handel’s Serse at Festival D’opéra Baroque & Romantique De Beaune (with Orchestre Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone), and Haydn’s The Creation in the stage production by La Fura dels Baus for the inaugurations of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan, and the Incheon Culture & Arts Center in Korea.