The Korean-born American tenor Seiyoung Kim is currently a member of the opera studio of the Vienna Volksoper, where in the 2024/25 season his appearances have included Harlekin in KaiserRequiem — a dance / music-theatre production created by Omer Meir Wellber and Andreas Heiser that interweaves Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis with Mozart’s Requiem — and Moon and King of the East in Jonathan Dove’s The Enchanted Pig.
In the 2023/24 season Seiyoung Kim made his debuts at the Houston Grand Opera as Monkey and Rat in the world premiere of Meilina Tsui’s The Big Swim and at Glimmerglass Festival, where he sang Pane and Natura in La Calisto and Little Victor Farrell in Kevin Puts’s Elizabeth Cree. He also sang Britten’s song cycle Les Illuminations with the Sejong Soloists and appeared with Boston Lyric Opera in the ‘Concerts in the Courtyard’ series at the Boston Public Library.
Earlier opera appearances have included the title role in Le Comte Ory, Oronte (Alcina) and the Father in Die sieben Todsünden at Yale University, Brighella (Ariadne auf Naxos) for Wolf Trap Opera, Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi) and Jimmy O’Keefe in John Musto’s Later the Same Evening at the New England Conservatory and Fileno in Haydn’s La fedeltà premiata at the Juilliard School.
Seiyoung Kim has participated in workshops for a series of new operas, including Derek Bermel’s The House on Mango Street for the Glimmerglass Festival, Hang Ruo’s M. Butterfly at the Santa Fe Opera and PermaDeath for White Snake Projects. On the concert platform he has sung the tenor solo in Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle at the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College.
Seiyoung Kim is a graduate of the training programmes of Santa Fe Opera, the Wolf Trap Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival, and of the Young Artist Vocal Academy of the Houston Grand Opera. He studied at the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory of Music and Yale University, where he received the prestigious Phyllis Curtin Career Entry Prize upon graduation.
