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Carmina Burana (Carl Orff) 11/01/93 TELDEC

Gala Opera Concert ../../88
CAPRICCIO

Mahler Sinopoli ../../92
Deutsche Grammophon

Les Contes d'Hoffmann
(Jacques Offenbach) 10/29/96 ERATO

Ave Maria - The Myth of Mary 03/07/00 Teldec

The Ninth Gate (Original Soundtrack) 02/../00
Silva America

The Christmas Album
09/18/01 ERATO

 Die Frau ohne Schatten
(Richard Strauss) 04/14/92
LONDON CLASSICS

Die Zauberflote
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) ../../91 ERATO

Die Zauberflote
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) 04/12/94 L'Oiseau-Lyre

Die Zauberflote
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) 09/17/91 LONDON

Il Turco in Italia Highlights
(Gioacchino Rossini) ../../94
Polygram Classics

Un ballo in maschera
(Giuseppe Verdi) 11/19/96
Deutsche Grammophon

Tancredi
(Gioacchino Rossini) 05/01/95 Naxos International

Messa Di Gloria
(Gioacchino Rossini) ../../92
Polygram Classics


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Samsung Classics (NICES)

From Seoul With Love ../../.. ERATO

Seya Seya ../../94
Samsung Classics (NICES)

The Best of Sumi Jo ../../..
LONDON

Le Toreador
(Adolphe-Charles Adam) 03/17/98 LONDON

Le Domino Noir
(Daniel-Francois Auber) 04/09/96 LONDON

Adriadne Auf Naxos
(Richard Strauss) 11/11/97
VIRGIN CLASSICS

Requiem after J. S. Bach
(Joseph James) 05/25/99
BLACK BOX CLASSICS

Le Comte Ory
(Gioacchino Rossini) ../../90
Polygram Classics 		Prayers 03/20/01 ERATO

Only Love 04/11/00 ERATO

A Tribute to Johann Strauss - Echoes from Vienna 11/09/99 ERATO

Art of Sumi Jo 08/11/98
LONDON

Carnaval! - Sumi Jo sings French Coloratura Arias 10/11/94 LONDON

Bel Canto 09/16/97 ERATO

La Promessa : Italian Songs 09/15/98 ERATO

Les Bijoux : French Arias 07/27/99 ERATO

Sumi Jo sings Mozart 10/01/96 ERATO

Sumi Jo - Virtuoso Arias 02/01/95 ERATO

Live at Carneigie Hall 09/16/97 Samsung Classics


Sumi Jo was born in Seoul, Korea in 1962. She graduated from Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome after 3 years of study in keyboard and vocal music. Then she soon came to the attention of Herbert von Karajan, for whom she sang the role of Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, as a result of an audition in 1988. Since then, she has performed all the great coloratura roles such as Queen of the Night, Lucia, Zerbinetta, Fiorilla, Amina, etc. at the world's major opera houses, under conductors like Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Alfred Kraus, Lorin Maazel, Richard Bonynge, etc.
  • "Mozart Opera and Concert Arias": "...Jo delivers the coloratura goods, negotiating Mozart's rigorous musical requirements with almost super human ease: her singing technically is beyond criticism..."--Opera News.
  • "Il Turco in Italia"-Rossini: "...Sumi Jo is, of course, no Callas...but she has her own, equally valid way with the role, suggesting wiles and flirtatiousness more reticently than her great predecessor, and her singing qua singing is well-nigh faultless..."--Opera.
  • "Le Domino Noir"-Auber: "...Sumi Jo has the right combination of delicacy and ebullience for Angele, with a decided flair for her de rigeur ornaments..."--Opera News.
  • "L'elisir d'amore"-Donizetti: "Sumi Jo...her voice, delightful through most of its range, tended to shrillness at the top..."--Opera.
  • "Die Zauberfl?e"-W.A. Mozart: "...Sumi Jo...was a beautiful, termagant Queen of Night, and her clear, bell-like soprano coped easily with the coloratura..."--Opera.
  • "Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra"-Rossini: "...Her needle-fine accuracy in fioritura is well known, and her tone, while slight, projects easily, at the top...She has an instinctive feel for Rossinian line, and that conquers all..."--Opera.
  • "Les Contes d'Hoffmann"-Offenbach: "...Sumi Jo must be among the best-ever interpreters of Olympia's role-entrancing in 'mechanical' movement,even more entrancing in agility and purity of vocal line..."--Opera.
 
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