Hong Hei-kyung
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Revised Romanization | Hong Hye-gyeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Hong kyekyŏng |
Hong Hei-Kyung (born July 4, 1959), often known in the west as Hei-Kyung Hong, is a South Korean operatic lyric soprano.
Early life
Hong was born in
Career
In 1981, she sang professionally for the first time when composer
As a winner of the 1982
Like many non-Italian and non-German singers, she has not been tied to operas of specific languages; her repertoire includes Italian (Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti), German (Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner) and French (Bizet, Gounod, Offenbach). But Mozart occupies the most important place in her repertoire; beside three roles in Le nozze di Figaro – Countess Almaviva (30 performances), Susanna (10 performances) and Barbarina (8 performances), she has sung Zerlina in
Although the Met has been her main stage since her debut, after giving birth to her third child she began to sing in Europe as well. She has sung at various opera houses including the
On June 4, 2006, she sang Violetta in La traviata at the Met, becoming the first Asian soprano to sing the role at the Met. And on March 1, 2007, she sang Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Met for the first time. According to the Metropolitan Opera homepage, through September 2015, her most frequently sung role at the Met has been Mimì in La bohème (64 performances), followed by Micaëla in Carmen (35 performances), Liù in Turandot (33 performances) and Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (30 performances).
Hong also has wide experience in orchestral repertoire. She has sung Bach with Trevor Pinnock and the Montreal Symphony, and the conductor and composer Giuseppe Sinopoli wrote his Lou Salome Suite for her, which they premiered together with the New York Philharmonic. She has appeared with the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and many others under conductors such as Charles Dutoit, Mariss Jansons, Seiji Ozawa, André Previn, and Lorin Maazel, with whom she sang the final scene from Strauss' Daphne for the Bayerische Rundfunk.
Personal life
Hong is a Christian whose grandparents were elders at a Presbyterian church in Gwangju.
Hong was featured on the June 2007 cover of Opera News magazine.[3]
Hong's husband was diagnosed with cancer in December 2007 and died in July 2008. Having cancelled her whole schedule at the time of his diagnosis to care for him, she was away from the stage for two years in mourning. She returned to the stage of the Met as Violetta in La traviata on April 13, 2010. She currently lives in Queens, New York, United States with her three children.
Awards
- Ho-Am Prize in the Arts (2014)
Repertoire at the Met
Hei-kyung Hong's career at the Met (updated through December 31, 2015):
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Le nozze di Figaro: Countess Almaviva (30 performances), Susanna (10 performances), Barbarina (8 performances)
- Don Giovanni: Zerlina (29 performances)
- Così fan tutte: Despina (14 performances)
- La clemenza di Tito: Servilia (11 performances)
- Die Zauberflöte: Pamina (9 performances)
- Idomeneo: Ilia (9 performances)
- La bohème: Mimì (64 performances)
- Turandot: Liù (33 performances)
- Gianni Schicchi: Lauretta (5 performances)
- Don Carlo: Celestial Voice (26 performances)
- La traviata: Violetta (13 performances) / Beside the 13 performances, she sang in 1 performance for Acts 2 and 3 only on April 21, 2012.
- Rigoletto: Gilda (7 performances) / Besides the 7 performances, she sang in 1 performance for Act 1 only on January 4, 1991.
- Carmen: Micaëla (35 performances)
- Das Rheingold: Freia (10 performances)
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Eva (4 performances)
- Fidelio: Marzelline (12 performances)
- Samson: Virgin (8 performances)
- Giulio Cesare : Cleopatra (1 performance)
- The Ghosts of Versailles: Rosina (6 performances)
- Les contes d'Hoffmann: Antonia/Stella (4 performances)
- L'elisir d'amore: Adina (3 performances)
- Roméo et Juliette: Juliette (9 performances)
She has also appeared at the Met in four concerts and two gala performances.
Videography
- James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala (1996), Deutsche Grammophon DVD, B0004602-09
References
- 조선일보. p. 19.
- ^ Will Crutchfield (March 12, 1989). "The Twain Are Meeting On the World's Opera Stages". The New York Times.
- ^ So-Chung Shinn (June 2007). "Making History". Opera News.