Kathleen Kim, who sings regularly at many of the world’s premiere opera houses and concert halls, made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2007. Ms. Kim’s extensive career at the Met includes performances as Olympia in Bartlett Sher’s production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann, conducted by James Levine; as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos conducted by Kirill Petrenko in 2010 and Fabio Luisi in 2011; and as Oscar in Un Ballo in Maschera, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda in 2007 and by Fabio Luisi in 2012. She was hailed by critics for her role as Chiang Ch’ing in the Met premiere of John Adams’s Nixon in China, directed by Peter Sellars and conducted by Adams. Kim opens her 2013/2014 season as the enchanted Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Met under the baton of James Conlon. Kim has been recognized with numerous prizes and awards, including a Sullivan Foundation Award, Sarasota Opera Guild’s Leo Rogers Scholarship, and the Rose Ann Grund Scholarship of the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation voice competition in Chicago. She was a prize winner of the Mario Lanza Competition, a National Finalist of the MacAllister Awards, and a prize winner of the Liederkranz Competition.