Eun Sun Kim Profiled in Le Figaro Magazine • November 2023
Paris, France
Photo by Tae-hwan Kim
Le Figaro Magazine
Eun Sun Kim Leads Her World with the Baton
“She is a colorful chief! Her voice is a cascade of laughter, and her smile lights up a lily-like face, while she shakes her black hair. However, the 42-year-old carries heavy challenges on her small shoulders: musical director of the San Francisco Opera, familiar with the best orchestras and operas in the world - Milan and Vienna, in particular. Eun Sun Kim comes to raise her baton on these Tales of Hoffmann by Offenbach, beloved by the French, and which the Opéra Bastille takes up in Robert Carsen's production. She thus made her debut on the premiere French stage, an unrivaled joy, because, she says, ‘here, everyone joyfully hums the work, as if they knew it by heart. I have already directed it elsewhere, but today I can better savor the music of the language. French fascinates me.’ She speaks it smoothly, like many other languages.”