Sae-Kyung RIM 임세경, Soprano

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

Future engagements include among others Cio-Cio-San/Madama Butterfly in Bergen and Trondheim and Leonora/Forza del Destino at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona and in Las Palmas. Recently she performed Maddalena at national theater Seoul in March 2015, Cio-Cio-San/Madama Butterfly in Las Palmas and Wiener Staatsoper and Aida/Aida at Arena di Verona, at Sejong Theater Seoul and in Munich.

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 2013 she performed the title role in "Aida" at Sejong Theater Seoul, and Verdi’s Requiem in the Opera House of Seoul. In Seoul she has performed many leading roles in the past 5 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.

Her theatrical debut was performing "Parisina" by Donizetti at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo.

She made her debut at the Teatro Coccia of Novara performing the title role in "Madama Butterfly" by Puccini.

In February 2009 she took part in the production of "Madama Butterfly" by Puccini at the Teatro Valli in Reggio Emilia, in the role of Cio-Cio-San. That season she also performed Leonora in "La Forza del Destino" by Verdi at the Teatro Sejong Seoul and also "Aida" by Verdi, in the title role, at the Stadttheather of Klagenfurt. In 2016 she performed the title role in "Aida"at the New Theatre Opera House Tokyo and performed the title role in "Madama Butterfly" by Puccini at the Opera house Leipzig.

Representation: Korea