Sae-Kyung Rim graduated in singing at the Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan and in the course for opera singers Soloists dell 'Accademia del Teatro alla Scala with Leyla Gencer. Her theatrical debut was performing Parisina by Donizetti at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo. She has won several international competitions in singing, including the "Giambattista Viotti" in Vercelli. Recently she performed Tosca at Wiener Staatsoper w. Domingo, Antonenko, Hampson, Cio-Cio-San/Madama Butterfly in Budapest, Las Palmas, at Wiener Staatsoper and in Bergen and Trondheim, Leonora/Forza del Destino at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona, Maddalena/Andrea Chenier in Seoul and Aida/Aida at Arena di Verona, in Seoul and in Munich. In Teatro alla Scala in Milan she has performed in productions such as: Dialogues des Carmelites, Rinaldo, Elektra, La Boheme, Così Fan Tutte and others under the direction of Riccardo Muti, Ottavio Dantone, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Daniel Barenboim. In 2013 she performed the title role in "Aida" at Sejong Theater Seoul, and Verdi’s Requiem in the Opera House of Seoul. In Seoul she has performed many leading roles in the past 5 years such as Madame Lidoine (Les Dialogues des Carmelites), Amelia (Un Ballo in Maschera), Leonora (Forza del Destino), Marguerite (Mefistofele), Tosca.
