Rising young soprano Kim Sheehan, described by Opera Now as “sporting a super voice and blissfully funny acting skills” has sung many of the roles in the coloratura repertoire in Germany, Switzerland, the UK and her home country of Ireland.
She has worked with such established companies as the Royal Opera House, Zürich Opera House, Opera North, Grange Park Opera, Garsington Festival Opera, Thüringen Opera and Wexford Festival Opera.
Kim was exceptionally busy in 2011 singing in ten different productions, many of them role debuts: These included Zerbinetta (Ariadne auf Naxos) at Theater Winterthur; Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute) at Garsington Festival Opera and Theater Rostock; Madeleine (Le Postillon de Lonjumeau) at Opera de Baugé; Rosina (Il barbiere di Siviglia) at Bad Lauchstädt; Giulietta (I Capuleti e I Montecchi) at Theater Altenburg; Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel) at Theater Gera.
She has received a host of excellent reviews from around Europe (see full list here) including her “outstanding singing” at Theater Winterthur with a “disarmingly honest” (Der Landbote) interpretation of Zerbinetta, an “utterly brilliant” (Arts Desk) and “truly star-blazing” (Osterländer Volkszeitung) Königin der Nacht with a voice that “sets the pulse racing” (Financial Times) and a “superb” Madeleine that shone “ like the many fires of a diamond.” (Forum Opera)
Her training began in Ireland where she graduated with distinction and the Gold Medal from DIT Conservatory of Music in Dublin before taking up a scholarship at the Royal College of Music & Benjamin Britten International Opera School, London. From there Kim continued on to the prestigious International Opera Studio at Zürich Opera House. Throughout her studies she was sponsored by the Arts Council of Ireland.
In 2012, as well as reprising a number of the roles from 2011, Kim debuts two more important roles in the lyric coloratura fach: Juliette in Romeo et Juliette at Opera de Baugé and Frau Fluth in Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor