Kathleen Kim

Kathleen Kim is a Korean-American operatic coloratura soprano. Her repertoire includes roles in operas by Handel, Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi and Offenbach, among others, as well as in oratorios such as the Messiah and sacred works such as Mozart's Great Mass in C minor.

Kim is a graduate of the Ryan Opera Center of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Manhattan School of Music. During her training, she appeared in various operatic roles, including Adele in Die Fledermaus, the First Priestess in Iphigénie en Tauride, the page in Rigoletto, the milliner in Der Rosenkavalier and Frasquita in Carmen.

Kim made her début at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 2007 as Barbarina in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro and since then sang at the Met in the roles of Olympia in Les contes d'Hoffmann, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail. She sang the role of Chiang Ch'ing in the Met's première of John Adams's Nixon in China.

Since her professional début, Kim has sung with major opera companies in numerous theatres across the world, including the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Gran Teatre del Liceu, the Bayerische Staatsoper and the Opéra de Lille.

Kim is an active presence on the concert stage, having been a soloist with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in works such as Mahler's Eighth Symphony and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.