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rare Bird.(soprano Sumi Jo)
She's conquered crossover as well as coloratura, but soprano SUMI JO isn't about to rest on her laurels
"You never relax, never," says Sumi Jo, summing up the divas life. An earnest tone breaks suddenly into her customarily lilting English, showing how serious she is. But isn't everything going her way? Surely any soprano who has just seen her crossover album Only Love pass the 700,000 mark can afford to kick back, maybe even to gloat.
Though she's gratified by the recording's success in her native Korea, where her albums regularly climb the charts and her name is a household word; she has other priorities. "My main goal is to keep my image of myself as ...
- Soprano Sumi Jo wants to return love to local fans in 20th anniversary tour.
- News wire article from: YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea August 31, 2006 700+ words
...along the way, coloratura soprano Sumi Jo says she now owes her fans something...singing and new crossover trials, Jo celebrated her anniversary with a recital...album, "With Love: Best 20 Songs of Sumi Jo," released this week in Seoul, includes...
- Adam: Le Toreador. Sumi Jo, John Aler, Michel Trempont; Richard Bonynge,...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John November 1, 1998 700+ words
Adam: Le Toreador. Sumi Jo, John Aler, Michel Trempont; Richard Bonynge, Orchestra...interludes here. But it's not the stuff of legend. Soprano Sumi Jo sings sweetly as the beleaguered heroine forced into a marriage...
- CD REVIEW; Chanticleer, Sumi Jo bring holiday cheer.(ENTERTAINMENT)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Anthony, Michael December 23, 2001 700+ words
Byline: Michael Anthony; Staff Writer RSEC: + SUMI JO, "The Christmas Album." Michael Schneider, conductor...singers that nicely mix the familiar and the unfamiliar. Sumi Jo, the luminous Korean soprano who was a hit with Minnesota...
- Growing up in song; Soprano Sumi Jo says she "never had a normal life," as she...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Anthony, Michael January 27, 2001 700+ words
Sumi Jo, the Korean-born soprano, was steered toward...recordings day and night in the months before Jo's birth in 1962, focusing on the foremost...I had already memorized all the operas," Jo said, laughing, during a rehearsal break...
- CLASSICAL; SUMI JO RETURNS.(ENTERTAINMENT)
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Anthony, Michael May 23, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Michael Anthony; Staff Writer OPENING THURSDAY: The stunning Korean-born soprano Sumi Jo, who lit up the stage of the Ordway Center three years ago in Minnesota Opera's production of Bellini's "The Capulets and...
- 'All Your Answers Lie Inside of You'.
- Newspaper article from: Korea Times (Seoul, Korea) November 24, 2000 700+ words
...However, Korean soprano coloratura Sumi Jo hopes to share her singing and music...wealth. A critic commented that it was Sumi Jo who put the term ``crossover music...maestro in the 20th century, said Sumi Jo's voice was ``sent from above...
- RECORD REVIEWS.(SHOWTIME)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) April 7, 1996 700+ words
...Instrumentale Brugense, the Capella Brugensis and singers Sumi Jo, Ewa Podles, Stanford Olsen, Pietro Spagnoli, Anna Maria...that liven the musical lines. Throughout the performance, Sumi Jo creates excitement with her brilliant, sometimes edgy voice...
- Hark this soprano angel sing; Classical.(Review)
- Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England) Mellor, David December 16, 2001 700+ words
...Christmas Album featuring the delightful Korean soprano Sumi Jo. She contributes tasteful traditional carols such as Silent...centuries ago (*****). Almost, but not quite as good as Sumi Jo's collection, but again showing real imagination, is...
