Донгхюн Ким

The South Korean tenor Donghyun Kim, also billed as Donghyun Raffaele Kim, studied with Raina Kabaivanska and took part in her international masterclasses organised by New Bulgarian University. He shared second prize in the 2022 Fausto Ricci Competition in Viterbo. His repertoire includes La traviata, Rigoletto, La boheme, L'elisir d'amore and Verdi's Requiem. He sang in Sofia galas with the Sofia Philharmonic in 2022 and the Sofia National Opera in 2023 and 2024, alongside Aida Pascu, Bozhidar Bozhkilov, Hae Kang and Andrea Carta Mantiglia. Born in Suncheon in 1991, he studied opera singing at Chungnam National University and continued his training at the Giuseppe Nicolini Conservatory in Piacenza.