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Sumi Jo
Sign in to saveAlso known as Jo Sumi, Jo Su-mi, Jo Su Mi, Sumi Cho, Cho Sumi, Cho Su-mi, Cho Su Mi, Jo Soomi
South Korean operatic soprano
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Cho Su-mi ŭi arŭmdaun tojŏn =
- Norae e salgo sarang e salgo
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Film & TV
Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea
Sumi Jo, OSI (조수미; born 22 November 1962) is a South Korean lyric coloratura soprano known for her Grammy award-winning interpretations of the bel canto repertoire. Jo was born Jo Su-gyeong [tɕo sʰuɡjʌŋ] in Changwon, South Korea. Her mother was an amateur singer and pianist who had been unable to pursue her own professional music studies because of politics in Korea during the 1950s. Determined…
Known for
- Take 1 — Self2022
- Loro — Cantante Festa Araba2018
- You Quiz on the Block — Self2018
- Conversation with Hee Yeol — Self2018
- Youth — Sumi Jo2015
- Home Alone — Self2013
- John Adams: Nixon in China — Jiang Qing2012
- You Hee-yeol's Sketchbook — Self2009
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera — Oscar1990
- Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera — Oscar1990
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Norway
- Active from
- 1960-03-29
Discography
- Sådan nogen som os1996
- Karusellmusikk2001
- Håp2001
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22,479
- Total plays
- 145,975
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Sumi Jo is a South Korean operatic soprano. She was born in Seoul, South Korea on 22nd November, 1962. She graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome after 3 years of study in keyboard and vocal music. In 1986, she made her operatic debut as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto at Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste. This debut performance attracted the attention of Herbert von Karajan, for whom she sang the role of Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera at the Salzburg Festival
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Cho
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Place of birth
- Changwon
- Educated at
- Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
- Languages spoken
- Korean
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- josumi.co.kr
- Image
- Sumijo-cropped.JPG
- Voice type
- coloratura soprano
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- Commons category
- Sumi Jo
- date of birth
- 1962-11-22
- Fach vocal classification
- coloratura soprano
- McCune–Reischauer romanization
- Cho Sumi
- Revised Romanization
- Jo Sumi
- name in native language
- 조수미
- start of work period
- 1986-00-00
- P12674
- Wolfgang Zilzer
- social media followers
- 48000
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