OPERA BY CARL GOLDMARK

In-sung Sim (Glendower)

was born in South Korea, where he studied music and, from 1994, singing at the university. At the Center for the Arts in Seoul, he sang the roles of Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, Don Pasquale and Sparafucile, as well as Figaro at the National Theater in Seoul.

In 1996, he was awarded first prize in the KBC competition in Korea. From 1998 to 1999, he rounded out his studies of singing at the Vienna Conservatory. In July 2000, he was awarded two special prizes in the Belvedere competition.

The young bass In-Sung Sim appeared as a guest during the 2007-2008 season at such internationally known opera houses as the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, the Vienna State Opera and the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. He made his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2008 in the role of Capulet in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette.

In-Sung Sim has won a number of competitions, including those in Los Angeles and Oslo. Lieder recitals have taken the singer e.g. to the Marseille Opera and the Avignon Opera. In 2001, he debuted at the Vienna State Opera, where he sang the roles of the Steuermann, Ratcliffe in Mascagni's Guglielmo Ratcliffe, Swallow in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, and the Geisterbote in Richard Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten, as well as speaking roles, the Second Priest in The Magic Flute, Dulcamara, Don Fernando and Capulet, among others. In-Sung Sim has also debuted in the roles of Brétigny in Puccini's Manon Lescaut, Klingsor, Roucher in Giordano's Andrea Chénier and Silva in Verdi's Ernani.

He has also sung in CD productions of Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde for the Deutsche Grammophon label and the CD recording of Handel's opera Faramondo for EMI/Virgin Classics.

The roles of Gustavo in Faramondo at the Lausanne Opera, the Opera de Vichy, the Théàtre du Champs Elysees and the Théàtre du Caen, Philip in Verdi's Don Carlos at the Halle Opera, Timur in Puccini's Turandot at the Savonlinna Festival and Dulcamara at the Seoul Opera will soon follow.