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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
EUN SUN KIM |
ASAM NEWS
Eun Sun Kim will become the first Asian woman to lead a North American opera company ever, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
The San Francisco Opera named Kim its music director just yesterday . She will officially take over in August 2021, filling the position vacated Nicola Luisotti at the end of the 2017-2018 season.
“From my very first moments at San Francisco Opera, I felt this was home.” she said in a statement. “There was an unusual feeling of open collaboration across so many facets of the Company-a real sense of professional alchemy. I’m deeply honored to be joining the San Francisco Opera family and helping to carry this incredible lineage forward. “
According to Opera News, Kim made her United States debut in 2017 in the Houston Grand Opera performance of La Traviata. After that, she became the Houston Grand Opera’s principal guest conductor. She joined the San Francisco Opera in 2019 with the production of Dvořák’s Rusalka.
She has numerous performances planned which may explain her delay in taking over the SF Opera. She’ll make her LA Opera debut in February and then return to Houston in April.
She is conversant in six languages and was born in Seoul. At 24 she moved to Germany to study and has spent two years as an apprentice in Madrid.
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