Hyona Kim

Lauded by The New York Times as a “vibrant and dark-toned, agile mezzo-soprano,” Hyona Kim’s engagements for the 2025/26 season include her debut as Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at both the Metropolitan Opera and Irish National Opera, Mrs. Quickly in Falstaff at LA Opera, and Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde at Korea National Opera.

In the 2024/25 season, she performed Suzuki in Madama Butterfly with the Royal Danish Opera. Other highlights that season included Amneris in Aida at Opera Maine, additional performances as Suzuki at LA Opera, the Canadian Opera Company, and with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as her return to the Metropolitan Opera to cover the role of Amneris.

Kim joined the Metropolitan Opera for the 2022/23 season, covering the role of Eboli in Don Carlo and Venus in Tannhäuser. She made her San Francisco Opera debut singing a leading role, Lady Wang in Bright Sheng’s world premiere Dream of the Red Chamber, and was critically acclaimed as an “unstoppable powerhouse” by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Her career saw her at the New York City Opera, Romanian National Opera Cluj-Napoca, Opera Carolina, Opera Lancaster, Opera Company of Middlebury, among others. Other roles include Azucena in Il Trovatore, Dame Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff, Hermia in A MidsummerNight’s Dream, Wowkle in La fanciulla del West, Olga and Larina in Eugene Onegin.

She was a member of the ensemble of the Dortmund Opera from 2018 to 2023 and has performed among others, the roles of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Tzippie in Oliver Knussen’s Where The Wild Things Are, and the title role in the German Premiere production of Frédégonde by Ernest Guiraud, Paul Dukas, and Camille Saint-Saëns, Nancy Tang in John Adams’s Nixon in China, Ortrud in Lohengrin, and Amneris in Aida.

Passionate about chamber music and art song, Ms. Kim has appeared in many concerts and recitals with Mannes Baroque Chamber Players, the Guinness Quartet as part of Viva Virginia, International Festival of Music, and also in several concerts of Ensemble 212, in works such as Mahler’s Symphony No.2 and No. 3, world premieres for Chamber Orchestra both by Yoon Jae Lee, and Der Abschied from Das Lied von der Erde. She has participated in Stephanie Blythe and Alan Smith’s Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar and also has sung with the Brooklyn Art Song Society in their concert series of Les six: Francis Poulenc and Songs of Mahler. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with the New England Symphonic Ensemble, singing the alto solo in Vivaldi’s Gloria.