Ji-Hwa Shin

Cast in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Piazzale delle Terme Tettuccio in Montecatini Terme on 21 August 2004, Ji-Hwa Shin sang in an international company assembled for the Tuscan spa town's summer season. Korean, she had taken second prize in the female-voice category of the Tenor Viñas competition in its 1987–88 edition, and she later taught in the voice department of Ewha Womans University. Her role in that Rigoletto was Gilda.