#sunhae im

[phantom-retrospective]

Hey guys, this is really important.

As some of you may know, Art Seen Films is doing theatrical screenings of a Korean production of Yeston & Kopit's Phantom musical starring Kyuhyun.

They have a survey going which asks about interest in a streaming & blu-ray release. They also ask if anyone is interested in having another musical called Werther featuring Kyuhyun.

So whether you're interested in Phantom or only a fan of Korean theatre/culture in general please fill it out.

Phantom the Musical Questionnaire

A quick questionnaire to help us better understand you and your preferences

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Röschmann; Prina, Genaux, Im, & Invernizzi; Persson & Davidsen; von Otter; Baráth, Cangemi, & Galou; D’Angelo

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Dorothea Röschmann sings Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder as part of a concert with the Orchestre de Paris; Karina Cannelakis conducts. Wednesday, September 4; video livestream on Arte and simultaneous audio broadcast on Radio Clasique. 

I can’t say I’m very familiar with Handel’s Lucio Cornelio Silla, but I have heard good work from Sonia Prina, Vivica Genaux, Sunhae Im, and Roberta Invernizzi, all of whom are among the cast for a performance by Europa Galante at the Enescu Festival. Live broadcast Thursday, September 5 on Radio România Muzical.

Lise Davidsen has made a splash in dramatic soprano roles, but she also has mezzo repertoire, and is scheduled to sing the alto solo in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Bergen Philharmonic and massed choirs; Miah Persson takes the soprano solo. Live broadcast Thursday, September 5 on NRK Klassik.

Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 is also on the broadcast schedule this week, with Anne Sofie von Otter singing the alto solo for the NDR Radiophilharmonie. Live broadcast Saturday, September 7th on NDR Kultur. 

Handel’s Silla isn’t the only baroque opera based on Roman history we get from the Enescu Festival this year: Vivaldi’s Giustino is up for broadcast, too. Names catching my eye among the cast include Emőke Baráth, Veronica Cangemi, and Delphine Galou. Live broadcast Sunday, September 8 on Radio România Muzical.

Dedicated mezzophiles may have their eye on the rising star of Emily D’Angelo. Along with Morgan Pearse and Marie Lys, she recently sang a program of “arias and duets from operas from the 17th and the 18th centuries” at the Innsbruck Festival, with its resident orchestra. Deferred broadcast Monday, September 9 on Ö1.

[shizuokaa]

Flower petals that fall down and scatter away into the season 

are sadly left alone

The sorrowful sky whom the stars have left

only sheds tears like the rain

Please send my heart away into the wind

like the blooming flowers

The wish which will become true when the first snow comes

I believe those words, my earnest wish

If you know my grieving heart

you'll be back again.

[parmandil]

Se il padre perdei from Mozart's Idomeneo, sung by Sunhae Im.

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Baráth, Gens, Bardon, Im, Piau, and more

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

Emőke Baráth and Philippe Jaroussky combine forces with the Ensemble Artaserse for a concert of Handel arias and concerti. Live broadcast Thursday, September 13 on Bartók Rádió.

Véronique Gens sings Berlioz’ Les nuits d’été as part of a concert by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Thursday, September 13 on RÁS 1.

If you were well impressed by Patricia Bardon in Giulio Cesare this past summer, you might like to try her in some Mahler. Along with Orla Boylan, she she sings in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, scheduled for live broadcast Friday, September 14 on RTÉ Lyric FM. 

Sunhae Im is the only name I recognize offhand on the roster for this performance of Handel’s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, but she’s a good one. Her fellow vocal soloists are Robin Johannsen, Benno Schachtner, and Thomas Walker. This concert by the Freiburger Barockorchester is apparently going to be video-livestreamed on Culturebox, although World Concert Hall says “Live worldwide webcast to be confirmed.” If it happens, it will be Saturday, September 15 on Culturebox.

The wonderful Sandrine Piau is among the soloists for a concert of lesser-known Mozart works with accentus and the Insula orchestra. Laurence Equilbey conducts. Sunday, September 16 on France Musique. 

[feel-the-lyrics]

Flowers bloom and wither, just like my heart

Sunhae Im - Will be back

[feel-the-lyrics]

When the first snow falls, my wish will come true I believe in that, an earnest wish

Sunhae Im - Will be back

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Mostly Mezzo Mondays: Soprano Saturation

Mostly Mezzo Mondays: a recurring (though not weekly) feature where, on Monday nights, I blog a list of the upcoming broadcasts that have caught my eye on World Concert Hall. My interests: baroque vocal music, art song recitals, and a list of favorite singers.

On this week’s cruise through the WCH listings, it happened to be the sopranos’ names that caught my eye.

If you can’t get enough of Renée Fleming singing Strauss with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic—considering that their Proms outing is still available on demand—you are in luck: their performance of the same program in Helsinki is scheduled for broadcast Friday, September 8 on Yle Radio 1.

My personal pick of the week is Sunhae Im singing a variety of Italian baroque works with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. On the menu are unspecified pieces by Francesco Cavalli, Luigi Rossi, Salomone Rossi and Alessandro Stradella. Sunday, September 10 on Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

I keep hearing great things about Elsa Dreisig but I haven’t heard her sing yet. One opportunity: Dreisig sings Haydn’s Creation along with established stars Mark Padmore and Florian Boesch and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Sunday, September 10 on SRF 2 Kultur. 

Several of my opera tweeps gave glowing praise to Dorothea Röschmann and Emma Bell (along with Werner Güra) in Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2, “Lobgesang,” at the Edinburgh International Festival. It’s now scheduled for deferred broadcast on Monday, September 11 on BBC Radio 3 (and should be available on demand for a month afterward).