Sunday, July 13, 2025 | 8:00PM | Pearl Concert Theater
Doors Open 7:00PM

Sumi Jo is one of the world’s most revered coloratura sopranos, renowned for her vocal brilliance, technical mastery, and emotional expressiveness. A Grammy Award-winning artist, she has performed on the most prestigious stages across five continents and continues to represent the pinnacle of operatic excellence.

A Voice Honored on the World Stage:

• Recipient of France’s Highest Cultural Honor (2024)
  - Awarded the Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by

• Grammy Award Winner – Best Opera Recording, The Marriage of Figaro (1993)

• 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Performer, broadcast to over 1 billion viewers

• Performed at the Vatican for Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI

• Invited performer at the United Nations Headquarters in New York

• Starred at world-renowned venues including Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna), The Metropolitan Opera (New York), and Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris)

• Named a UNESCO Artist for Peace for her humanitarian and cultural contributions

• Holds an Honorary Doctorate from Westminster Choir College (USA)

• Featured in major global media including The New York Times, Le Monde, and The Guardian

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. 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.