"Without cease Hye Won Nam performs the role of Cio-Cio-San with a flowing, beautifully articulating voice of a dark-timbred brilliance; musically impeccable in the high registers, which makes her theperfect choice for the role." Orpheus

For years now, Hye Won Nam has been impressing as CIO-CIO-SAN in “Madama Butterfly”. She could already be seen in this very role at the Saarbrücken State Theatre, the Magdeburg Theater, the Wuppertal Stages, the Danish National Opera, the Hof Theatre and in 2020 at the Nordhausen Theatre.
In the season 21/22 she was re-engaged here as TOSCA and she will make her debut as TURANDOT at the Festival Nordhausen-Sondershausen in 2024.

In Saarbrücken, she also sang TATIANA in 'Eugin Onegin'. She was TOSCA in Bremen, LIU at the Mannheim National Theatre, DONNA ANNA at the Prinzregententheater Munich and Lauretta at the Braunschweig State Theatre.

Ms Nam first absolved singing studies at the National University of Seoul, before completing them with Helmut Deutsch at the Conservatory of Music And Theatre in Munich and with Mirella Freni and Maria Chiara in Italy. Besides, she took master classes with Josef Loibl and Nicola Martinucci. Hye Won Nam wo the First Prize of the Mirella Freni »L'Opera Italiana«-Competition, the First Prize of the International »Francesco Maria Martini« Competition in Lignano Sabbiadoro and is a prizewinner of the competitions »Francesco Vinas« in Barcelona, »Competizione dell'Opera« in Dresden and the IVC in the Netherlands.

Her first engagements in Korea included LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, ADINA, AGATHE, MIMI , PAMINA and VIOLETTA VALÉRY.

In Italy Ms Nam made her debut as SUSANNA at the Teatro Asioli di Corregio and as MICAELA at the Teatro dell'Opera di Sanremo. She attracted international attention in an Anniversary Concert on the occasion of the 50th stage anniversary of Mirella Freni at the Teatro communale di Modena, whereupon she was immediately engaged by Maestro Michael Jurowski for the opening concert with the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona Foundation at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona. At the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca her debut as MIMI under the musical direction of Maestro Marzio Conti, was so successful that she was engaged to sing this very role the following season at the Teatro Communale di Bolzano, the Teatro ad Adria, the Teatro Goldoni di Livorno and the Teatro Verdi di Pisa. In this last opera house, the singer also interpreted the title part in a concertante performance of SUOR ANGELICA.

Hye Won Nam can regularly be seen at the Art Center Seoul, recently as ELISABETTA in 'Don Carlo'and AMELIA in 'Un ballo in maschera' together with such renowned artist as wie Francesco Meli, Massimilliano Pisapia and Renato Devid Cecconi.