Soprano Narea Son

In the 2024/25 season, the Korean soprano makes her debut as Luisa Miller (Luisa Miller) , Donna Anna (Don Giovanni) and Micaëla (Carmen) at the Hamburg state opera, where Narea is currently a soloist ensemble member.  She will have a House-debut in the Korea national Opera in Seoul as a Susanna (Le nozzle di Figaro).

Recently highlights include Norina (Don Pasquale), Marzelline(Fidelio), Gretel(Hänsel und Gretel), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Lauretta (Il Trittico, New Production of Axel Ranisch, Conductor: Giampaolo Bisanti)at the Hamburg state opera. 

 

She had multicoloured season  2022/23. Narea Son sung  Dafne(Konzertante, Il Nascimento dell’aurora by Tomaso Albinoni) at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2022 and the Baroque Opera Album 'Polifemo', which she sung as Nerea with Parnassus Arts production released in September 2023.

 

As a engaged soloist member of Hamburg state Opera, Narea could make a many operatic successful appearances include as  Despina (Cosi fan tutte),  Soeur Constance (Dialogues des Carmélites), Blonde(Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Adele(Die Fledermaus), Marzelline(Fidelio),  Katze Ivanka (Katze Ivanka, World Premiere), Echo (Ariadne auf Naxos), Oberto(Alcina), Martha, Sorge and Soprano solo(Szenen aus Goethes Faust, next to Christian Gehaher), Snow White (Schneewittchen, Mitterer in art of Humperdinck) and Ljusja (Moskau, Tscherjomuschki). 

 

Her asian appearance as Zerlina(Don Giovanni) at Seoul metropolitan opera in 2019, Pamina(Erzittre, feiger Bösewicht!, a new version of Die Zauberflöte by J.Harneit) at Grand Theatre Shanghai in 2018  and Micaėla(Carmen) at the poly theater Shenzhen in January 2024 was critically acclaimed.

 

In 2022, Narea became the first prize laureate for the international singing competition "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg".

 

Through her passion for art songs, she has developed a creative relationship with the brain child of the famed pianist Burkhard Kehring and has made his song project titled “Divan of Song” at the Heidelberger Frühling festival, Brahms festival in Hannover and Schloss Erbhof. 

 

Narea Son received her Master’s Degree and Concert Exam in Opera from the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg. 

She was a scholarship holder of the Herrmann und Milena Foundation, Koerber Foundation, Oscar und Vera Ritter Foundation.

 

In addition to her studies, she was able to take part in various master classes, including with Edita Gruberová, Cheryl Studer, Mariella Devia, Bruna Baglioni, Edda Moser and Brigitte Fassbaender as well as Joyce DiDonato at Carnegie Hall in New York with live stream of Arte TV.