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Yonghoon Lee, 2005 Career Bridges Winner
Metropolitan Opera Debut, November 29, 2010
Yonghoon Lee, 2005 Career Bridges winner, will make his Metropolitan Opera debut on November 29, 2010 singing the title role in the new production of Don Carlos.
As a 2005 Grant Winner, Yonghoon Lee received two years of evaluations from our Career Bridges Panel of Experts plus individual mentoring by Charles Riecker, Ted Taylor, our Musical Director, and Arthur Levy. In addition, Career Bridges provided Yonghoon the opportunity to put into practice what he had learned in the studio with many performances with our "Kids Love Opera" school program, and a special appearance at the Ravello Musical Festival. Yonghoon recently sent us this message: "I'm singing in all leading places in the world now. I thank you for your support. I miss you both, Best, Yonghoon,"
In the space of little over two years, Yonghoon Lee has established himself internationally as a very important tenor. In September of 2007, he made his German debut at Frankfurt Opera in the title role of a new production of Verdi's Don Carlos. This was followed by his Spanish debut, also in Don Carlos, at the Palau de les Artes in Valencia under Lorin Maazel.
In the 2009/2010 season Lee makes several significant debuts: at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich in Don Carlos, at the Hamburg State Opera in Tosca, at the Berlin State Opera in Carmen, and at the Glyndebourne Festival as Macduff in Macbeth. He will also debut in Lyon in concerts of the Verdi Requiem. In the fall of 2010, Lee will make his debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Carmen. He will then make his Metropolitan Opera in the new production of Don Carlos. Lee will also make his debut at the Teatro alla Scala as Turrridu in Cavalleria Rusticana and at the SemperOper in Dresden in Tosca under Nicola Luisotti. Lee will sing his first Manrico in Il Trovatore in concert performances opposite Anja Harteros at the Cologne Opera. In May 2011, he makes his debut at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen in his first Calaf in Turandot. Future projects include his Vienna State Opera Debut in 2012 as Don Carlos in the 1867 Original French Language version. He will also sing Don Carlos and Carmen for the Deutsche Oper Berlin and debuts at the Theatre Royale de la Monnaie as Manrico.
A native of South Korea, Yonghoon Lee began his musical studies there and was heard in Korea in several roles such as Alfredo in La traviata, Luigi in Il tabarro, Rodolfo in La bohème, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Ruggero in La rondine, and Don José in Carmen. He is a 2005 Career Bridges Grant Winner, first prize winner of the 34th annual Loren L. Zachary Society National vocal Competition 2006, first prize winner of the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation International Vocal Competition 2005 and 2005, as well as the winner of top prizes of Opera Index Vocal Competition 2005 and of the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation (JDAF) 2005. Yonghoon Lee received a full scholarship to both the Seoul National University in Korea and to the Mannes College of Music in New York where he continued his vocal and musical studies with Professor Arthur Levy.
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