Sumi Jo – Prayers (2000)

01. Ravel - Kaddisch
02. Mozart - Laudate Dominum
03. Caccini - Ave Maria
04. Amazing Grace
05. Strauss R - Breit'uber mein Haupt
06. Rossini - L'ora fatal s'appressa.. Giusto ciel
07. Faure - Requiem - Pie Jesu
08. Schubert - Gott! Hore meine Stimme!
09. Gounod - Sanctus
10. Donizetti - Preghiera di Maria
11. Preisner - Lacrimosa
12. Bernstein - Take care of this house
13. Strauss II - Nun's Chorus-Laura's Song
14. Say a prayer for me tonight Gigi
15. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Sumi Jo – soprano
Cologne Philharmonic
James Conlon – conductor

A coloratura soprano who in the late 1990s became one of the most noticed new names on the international operatic circuit, Sumi Jo was a discovery of the flamboyant German conductor Herbert von Karajan. A striking beauty, she owed her initial celebrity in part to video: the conductor arranged for her a prominent role in his Karajan in Salzburg video production.

Sumi Jo was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1962. After studying both voice and piano from a young age, she dropped out of Seoul National University in 1983 to travel to Italy for study at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Among her teachers were Carlo Bergonzi and Grannila Bonelli. She graduated in 1985, with a concentration in keyboard as well as voice and over the next few years took top voice competition prizes in several countries, attracting the attention of Karajan. Her operatic debut came as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto in 1986, and two years later she performed in Un Ballo in Maschera under Karajan's baton. In the 1990s and early 2000s she was ubiquitous, singing in major capitals on nearly every continent. She won a Grammy award in 1993, and among her many recordings, her several portrayals of Mozart's vocally treacherous Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte have been especially noteworthy. In 2000, she began to see the fruits of Richard Bonynge's mentorship, refining her bel canto technique and preparing for a Carnegie Hall recital in February 2001. ---All Music Guide, Rovi

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