Jee Hyun Lim

Opening the New York City Opera season in 2005 as the title role in MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Korean-American Jee Hyun Lim has performed the role at the Royal Albert Hall in David Freeman's award winning production, in Santiago, Chile at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago and most recently in a groudbreaking new production with San Antonio Opera.  Other recent performances of MADAMA BUTTERFLY include productions with the Austin Lyric Opera, Syracuse Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Chautauqua Opera, the New York City Opera tour in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan and in Dublin with Lyric Opera Productions.  Ms. Lim recently sang her first Countess LE NOZZE DI FIGARO with Indianapolis Opera, which she reprised with Michigan Opera Theatre.  Ms. Lim also frequently performs in her home country and returned to Seoul recently to make her role debut as Donna Elvira DON GIOVANNI at the Seoul Arts Centre.

Opening the New York City Opera season in 2005 as the title role in MADAMA BUTTERFLY, Korean-American Jee Hyun Lim has performed the role at the Royal Albert Hall in David Freeman's award winning production, in Santiago, Chile at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago and most recently in a groudbreaking new production with San Antonio Opera.  Other recent performances of MADAMA BUTTERFLY include productions with the Austin Lyric Opera, Syracuse Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Chautauqua Opera, the New York City Opera tour in Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan and in Dublin with Lyric Opera Productions.  Ms. Lim recently sang her first Countess LE NOZZE DI FIGARO with Indianapolis Opera, which she reprised with Michigan Opera Theatre.  Ms. Lim also frequently performs in her home country and returned to Seoul recently to make her role debut as Donna Elvira DON GIOVANNI at the Seoul Arts Centre.

Internationally known for her portrayal of operatic heroines of Giacomo Puccini, Ms. Lim has appeared as Mimi LA BOHÈME with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Atlanta Opera, Minnesota Opera, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Kentucky Opera, Tulsa Opera, Seattle Opera and Vest Norges Opera in Bergen, Norway and was invited to sing Cio-Cio San MADAMA BUTTERFLY in Zagreb with the National Theater of Croatia in 2003.  She has appeared as Liù TURANDOT with Portland Opera and Opera Carolina, Leila LES PECHEURS DE PERLES with Opera Boston and Nedda PAGLIACCI with Syracuse Opera.

Also a skilled singer of Mozart's heroines, she has performed the role of Pamina DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE with Virginia Opera, Tulsa Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, New Orleans and Cincinnati Opera, and Susanna LE NOZZE DI FIGARO for Tulsa Opera and in Detroit and Vancouver.  She has performed Zerlina DON GIOVANNI with the Minnesota Orchestra, Opera Pacific and Portland Opera.  Other roles include Dardane THE PILGRIM TO MECCA, with Opera Francais NY, and Micaela CARMEN with both Vest Norges Opera in Norway and an Earl's Court Production in Birmingham, England.

Earlier in her career she debuted as Antonia LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN at the Spoleto Festival USA in 1991 and in the 1992-1993 seasons she sang the same role in Vittorio Rossi's production in Montreal, Marguérite Faust for Austin Lyric Opera, and Anne Trulove THE RAKE'S PROGRESS with New Jersey Opera Festival.   She sang her first Blanche DIALOGUES DES CARMELITES with Tulsa Opera and Nedda PAGLIACCI in Austin. Ms. Lim was chosen by Gian Carlo Menotti to sing the lead role in the world premiere of his opera GIORNO DI NOZZE at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Ms. Lim appears regularly on the concert platform.  She has performed in Handel Messiah at Lincoln Center twice, and appeared in many concerts and oratorios in New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Virginia, New Hampshire and Seoul. She was educated at the Seoul National University, the Juilliard School and the Juilliard Opera Centre and was the winner of the Sullivan Award. She was recently voted Artist of the Year by Syracuse Opera.