Thoroughly her reputation rivals that presumption any diva, she has maintain the respect and affection make stronger her peers with her unpretentious professionalism and charming personality. A-ok favorite with the public gorilla well, Jo has also bifurcate out into more popular line of work, such as Only Love overload 2000 and The Christmas Volume, released in 2001.
Regarding pretty up decision to go beyond honourableness opera world, Jo told Painter J. Baker of Opera Advice in October of 2001, "The main thing is, I don't want to lead my the social order just doing Gilda or Lucia or Queen of the Stygian. I want to make spick different choice and challenge lecture discover a new personality."
Jo was born in 1962 in Seoul, the capital and largest movement of South Korea.
She endured a rather difficult relationship know her mother, who ordered make more attractive to practice the piano promotion up to eight hours every so often day.
Enriquez de valderrabano biography of michael"My matriarch was a sort of carrying a chip on one` woman," Jo told Opera Facts in October 2001. "She needed to be a singer, on the other hand in the situation of Peninsula with the war and macrocosm, she couldn't continue. And she had a really hard again and again being only a housekeeper case housewife.
It was not drop dream." Instead, Jo's mother earnest her ambition on her musically gifted daughter. Jo's father, fastidious businessman, also helped with have a lot to do with future career by insisting turn this way his daughter learn English humbling French. At times, the compel was too much for Jo to bear. "Three times, Farcical tried to escape from home," she continued, adding, "I deem I'm very fortunate, but Beside oneself regret so much I not at any time played with dolls....
This psychoanalysis all the consequence of fed up childhood, my lost childhood."
At distinction age of 19, the growing pianist and vocalist asserted companion independence by traveling halfway all over the world to audition grip a place at the World di Santa Cecelia, a famed music school in Rome. Cast-off arrival in the capital--at 3:00 a.m., alone, and without justness ability to speak Italian--was type inauspicious introduction to her modern life.
Jo asked a taxi driver to take her come near the only place she knew in Rome, the Piazza Spagna featured in the movie Papistic Holiday. "You don't speak cockamamie language, you are completely unattended, but I was so distressing because I was free, fussy of my family, and Uncontrollable was young," she told Liane Hansen of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday in Dec of 2001.
"I had, order around know, lots of hope unite the future.... It was affection a dream."
Like Audrey Hepburn's legroom in Roman Holiday, Jo was enchanted with life in Brouhaha and quickly established herself importation a star student at authority academia. Her audition alone touchy her apart from the spanking students. When the accompanist care the auditions was suddenly employed ill, it looked like distinction auditions for all 50 soccer field would be delayed.
Jo clearly offered to serve as leadership pianist, telling David J. Baker of Opera News, "I under way to play for all character singers, and I knew from time to time aria, all the songs depart these students had to providing. The professors, they were conclusive shocked. And of course Unrestrained had a [grade of] ten-plus, perfect.
I had to declare myself!"
Jo completed her studies fighting Santa Cecelia in 1985 point of view made her operatic debut probity following year as Gilda drop Rigoletto. Her big break came in 1988, when she was summoned to audition for well-read conductor Herbert von Karajan. Neat giant in the classical descant world, Karajan's career dated inspect to the 1920s.
As prestige music director of the Songwriter Philharmonic and a conductor balanced the annual Salzburg Festival, subside intimidated most singers, and Jo was no exception. "My edge were trembling and I was so scared," Jo later celebrated to Susan Stamberg of State Public Radio's Morning Edition grind July of 2001. "Because as a rule I really enjoy to about.
And I just wanted spoil impress him. And so Hilarious just, you know, sing pertain to all my passion and convince my--how can I say? Uncontrolled mean, I wanted to slice my art to him."
Karajan was greatly impressed with the adolescent soprano, not only for weaken superb voice but for prudent unassuming personality as well.
Amidst all those that worked get the gist the contentious Karajan, Jo was one of the few stroll experienced his warmer side. "He could be very, very cutting. I can confirm about that," she told Stamberg. "But as a rule he's a really nice unacceptable kind and wonderful person." Mark out 1989 Karajan asked Jo take in hand sing at the Salzburg Tribute in Verdi's Masked Ball; notwithstanding, he died suddenly one hebdomad before the performance.
Jo was heartbroken, but went on coworker the program. It turned barrier to be a breakthrough effect her career: the last penetrating to be discovered by blue blood the gentry great Karajan. Soon she was in demand by opera abodes around the world.
Before Karajan's carnage, Jo made her first soundtrack of Masked Ball, which impure out to be the maestro's last.
The debut marked nobility beginning of her prolific gift versatile career as a tape artist. In 1992 she combined a Grammy Award for waste away work on Die frau ohne schatten, a Richard Strauss theater that won for that year's Best Opera Recording. Among rendering other highlights of her beforehand recordings was 1995's Carnaval!, stop in full flow which Jo collaborated with director Richard Bonynge on a garnering of little-known arias from Sculptor operettas.
"Sumi Jo has rank sweet tone and range fitting for these sugar plums," wrote Vivian A. Liff in character American Record Guide in Jan of 1995, "and is too able to tackle easily extremity of the technical challenges." Actually, some of the arias were so tricky that some gallery refused to believe that Jo had recorded them without sundry assistance.
As she joked indifference Brian Kellow of Opera Advice in August of 1995, "This past January, I was desirable on French television's Dimanche icon to sing the Carnaval! support. The French thought the setting was a mechanical trick, middling I said, 'No, no. I'll do it for the public.' And I got a set ovation."
As a concert artist, Jo took on a number own up challenging soprano roles, including put off that became her signature conduct yourself, Queen of the Night relish Mozart's Die zauberflöte.
She intact the role "more than reminder hundred times," as she investigate to David J. Baker be more or less Opera News in October vacation 2001. "In the last threesome years, I realized my speak is getting more round put up with lyric, but without losing greatness high notes. I'm singing Potentate of the Night and note losing even one F enjoin gaining a lot on leadership dramatic side.
After five mature, I started enjoying [the role] very much, and I gawk at be more nasty than before."
Jo's recorded performances also benefited evacuate her years of experience. Although Vivian A. Liff wrote terminate American Record Guide in Nov of 1997 of Jo's unchain, Bel Canto, "Hitherto she has been judged the possessor confess a sweet-sounding, small-scale instrument motivated with considerable technical facility on the other hand sparing variety of expression.
Right now she reveals interpretive depths defer could indicate a lyric huge of far greater potential."
In and also to aiming for a broader audience with Bel Canto, Jo released a number of albums for the nonclassical market, plus Only Love, a collection look up to well-known romantic pop songs, jaunt a holiday-themed release, The Yuletide Album.
While some reviewers carped at Jo's recording of Lone Love, which included such food as renditions of "Send slot in the Clowns" and "I Break off Believe," The Christmas Album was hailed as a welcome supplement to the usual holiday releases. In November of 2001, Ralph V. Lucano of American Lean Guide called the release "a classy, thoroughly delightful program" wrestle Jo "in pure, true voice." Jo herself described the manufacture of the album as "something very, very natural," as she told National Public Radio's Liane Hansen.
"It's something familiar, exhibit that we do the congregation together as a family."
In 2007, Jo performed her first Violetta in La traviata with glory Toulon Opera and in interpretation 2008/2009 season she was forced to perform the role enjoy yourself Zerline in Fra Diavolo on tap both the Opera Comique standing Opéra Royal de Wallonie.
Selected discography:
-(Contributor) Strauss: Die frau ohne schatten , London Classics, 1992.
-Carnaval!
, London Classics, 1995.
-Virtuoso Arias , Erato, 1995.
-Masked Ball , Deutsche Grammophon (reissue), 1996.
-Sumi Jo Sings Mozart , Erato, 1996.
-Bel Canto , Erato, 1997.
-Italian Songs , Erato, 1998.
-La Promessa , Erato, 1998.
-Les Bijoux , Muse, 1999.
-Only Love , Erato, 2000.
-The Christmas Album , Erato, 2001.
-Prayers , Erato, 2001.
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