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Sumi Jo (born ) is a South Korean operatic soprano.
Jo attended Sun Hwa Arts School in Seoul, Korea and graduated from the
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in 1985 after three 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 opposite Plácido Domingo at
the Salzburg Festival after an audition in 1988. Karajan, who died the
following year, called her "a voice from heaven."
Since then, she has performed all the great coloratura roles including the
Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute, the title role in Lucia di
Lammermoor, Zerbinetta in Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Fiorilla in
Il turco in Italia, and Amina
