Kim Yijae
No. 23
Voice type: Soprano
Country: Korea, South
Date of birth: 21 February, 1996
Soprano YiJae Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. She earned her Bachelor’s degree at Seoul National University and after that she moved to Germany for further study and she is currently attending a Master’s course at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in Germany.
She has won 3rd place and Best Duo Award at the German Song Competition in Korea and she has also participated in several performances, including The Magic Flute, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and participated in Mahler's Symphony No.2 in a Mahler Memorial Concert. She played as Ernestina in the opera “L’occasione fa il ladro” at the Sommer Theater in Germany, and in June 2022 she sings Musetta in “La bohème” at the Landestheater Detmold.
Competition Repertoire
Preliminary
Liszt: Enfant, si j’étais roi
Donizetti: Quel guardo il cavaliere… So anch’io la virtù magica – Norina’s aria from Don Pasquale
Gounod: Je veux vivre dans le rêve – Juliette’s waltz from Roméo et Juliette
Semi-final
Puccini: Quando me’n vo’ soletta per la via – Musetta’s waltz from La bohème
Rossini: Non si dà follia maggiore – Fiorilla's aria from Il Turco in Italia
Final
Mozart: Giunse alfin il momento... Deh, vieni, non tardar – Susanna’s recitative and aria from Le nozze di Figaro
Mozart: Ach, ich fühl’s – Pamina’s aria from The Magic Flute
Rossini: Una voce poco fa – Rosina’s cavatina from Il barbiere di Siviglia