Lauded by the New York Times as a “vibrant and dark-toned, agile mezzo-soprano” Hyona Kim started 2024 with the Royal Danish Opera, singing the role of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly. Upcoming engagements include Amneris in Aida at Opera Maine,  Suzuki in Madama Butterfly at LA Opera, Canadian Opera Company and with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra and returning 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 the lead role of Lady Wang in Bright Sheng’s world premiere Dream of the Red Chamber, and was heralded as an “unstoppable powerhouse” by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Her career has taken her to the New York City Opera, Romanian National Opera Cluj-Napoca, Opera Carolina, Opera Lancaster, Opera Company of Middlebury, among others. Further roles include Azucena in Il Trovatore, Dame Quickly in Verdi’s Falstaff, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’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 the roles of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Tzippie in Oliver Knussen’s Where The Wild Things Are, the title role in the German première 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 with the Ensemble 212, in works such as Mahler’s Symphonies 2 and 3, world premieres for Chamber Orchestra 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 has also 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.

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Hyona Kim is represented by ArteMIS in Europe.