Rave Reviews for Eun Sun Kim’s Met Debut

Eun Sun Kim made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera earlier this week, conducting La bohèmein a performance for which "the star of the evening."

Tommasini further praised Kim’s „musicianly care, assured technical command, subtlety and imagination,“ writing that "it’s been a long time since I’ve heard Puccini’s score so freshly played."

Kim set the tone for the evening, allowing the singers to shine by giving them "…breathing room. Yet she showed that even while following a singer sensitively, a conductor can subtly nudge him along so a line does not go slack." And throughout the performance, "Kim’s way of conveying the structural elements of the score…was just as important as her attention to details," Tommasini wrote.

Further performances of the Met’s Bohème under Kim’s baton can be heard on 13, 17, 20, 26, 29 November, and on 3 December 2021, and then again in the Spring on 16, 20, 24, 27 May 2022. For Tommasini it is "great news that…Kim will be in the pit" for these performances.