Kathleen Kim
Metropolitan Opera - The Hours
Soprano Kathleen Kim is a total delight as owner of the shop where Clarissa buys flowers for her party. She unabashedly hits upon Clarissa in wonderful flights of coloratura fancy .
New York classic review (05/06/2025)Kathleen Kim's vibrant, staccato florist lit up the scene.
bachtrack (25.11.2025)Season 25/26 and Highlights
METROPOLITAN OPERA NEW YORK
Saariaho - Innocence - Mother in Law
PREMIERE Apr 6
Apr 11/14/18/22/25/29
Biography
Kathleen Kim is a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where she has appeared in many different roles, including Tytania (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) under the baton of James Conlon, Olympia (Les contes d’Hoffmann) and Blondchen (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) under James Levine, Oscar (Un ballo in maschera) with Fabio Luisi, and Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) under Kirill Petrenko. She has also sung Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) in New York under Sebastian Weigle and La Fée (Cendrillon) conducted by Bertrand de Billy. Most recently she returned to the Metropolitan Opera for the revival of the widely acclaimed production of The Hours, which celebrated its highly successful world premiere with an illustrious cast.
In the 2025/26 season she will once again appear at the Metropolitan Opera, taking on the role of the Mother-in-Law in Innocence, following a gala concert with the New York Philharmonic.
-
Kathleen Kim sang Violetta (La traviata) to great acclaim at the Korean National Opera and returned there as Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel). In concert she made her debut as Elvira in I puritani at the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall in 2024. In Montreal she thrilled audiences as Lucia di Lammermoor, and at the Opéra de Paris as La Fée in Cendrillon. In Paris she scored another triumph in the virtuosic role of Madame Mao in Adams’s Nixon in China under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel.
In Europe she has appeared, among others, at the Bavarian State Opera as Blondchen under Ivor Bolton and as Olympia. With this role she has also appeared at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Further engagements have taken her to Brussels as Oscar (Un ballo in maschera), to Frankfurt as Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos), and to the Glyndebourne Festival as Tytania, where she also shone in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges.
Alongside the roles mentioned above, contemporary music forms a firm part of Kathleen Kim’s artistic work. In St. Louis she sang the role of Josephine in the world premiere of An American Soldier by Huang Ruo. As Madame Mao in John Adams’s Nixon in China she has appeared, among other venues, at the Metropolitan Opera under the composer’s baton and at the BBC Proms.
Important concert engagements have included performances with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra for the celebration of independence under Myung-Whun Chung, with whom she has also performed Mahler’s Second and Eighth Symphonies as well as Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (recorded and released on Deutsche Grammophon).
2025/26
—
Any changes or reductions must be approved by ARSIS Artist Management. Please do not use older material.
