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YH: Would you say that your preference for pop music was somehow linked with the bel canto tradition, the operatic style that eventually became synonymous with your fame? I ask because I want to believe that all these musical preferences may be eventually linked with one another.
SJ: My involvement with bel canto happened "purely" [sic] because I went to Italy to study. But my musical development was formed on multiple stages of coincidences and hard work. The first person to seriously guide me to classical music singing was a student of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. In other words, my first encounter with classical music singing was distinctively Germanic, especially in the lieder tradition. The literature I learned, thus, involved art songs by the likes of Franz Schubert and Hugo Wolf. Despite the disadvantage of me not being able to understand German poetry at all, the reason that I, as a 16-year old girl, could sing these songs with some musical merit was that I had a good musical instinct. This musical instinct is innate, as I briefly said before; on my own, I could understand how to ideally express a piece in the best musical way.
I left for Italy after my first year at Seoul National University. At the time of my departure from Korea, I couldn't speak Italian - I bus
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Sumi Jo
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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, as a result of an audition in 1988. Since then, she has performed all the great co… read more
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 s… read more
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… read more
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