Tosca
“Der Südkoreaner Lee ist in dieser Rolle ein Ereignis. Von einem Cavaradossi mit einem so substanzvollen Tenor, der mit viel Schmelz Sinnlichkeit vermittelt und so strahlende Höhen und eine Stimme mit Kraft und zugleich Geschmeidigkeit
hat, träumen viele Häuser.”
– Ruhr Nachrichten
Biography Timeline
1997 – 2002 Study at the Yeungnam University in Kyongsan, South Korea
2003 – 2006 Study at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 – 2010 Performed in South Korea : Die Fledermaus (Alfred and Eisenstein), L’elisir d’amore (Nemorino), Turandot (Pong) / Korean creative operas : Dong-i in Woo, Jong Uek’s Opera “Love of Buckwheat”, Title role in Park, Chang Min’s Opera “Wangsan Heu-ui”, Mong-Wan in Lim, June Hee’s Opera “A match made in Heaven”
2011 – 2013 First engagement in Europe: Bucharest National Opera, Romania
2012 First prize International Singing Competition Masters of Lyrical Art – Valentin Teodorian in Bucharest
2013 First prize and special prize at the Competizione dell’Opera 2013 in Linz
2013/14
I Vespri Siciliani (Arrigo)(it.) – Theater Freiburg, Germany
Turandot (Calaf) – Graz Opera, Austria (Director : Marco Arturo Marelli) Aida (Radamès) – Opernfestspiele St.Margarethen, Austria (Director : Robert Dornhelm)
2014/15
Carmen – (Don José) Theater Freiburg, Germany
Il Trovatore (Manrico) – Theater Freiburg, Germany
Un ballo in maschera (Riccardo) – Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Germany
2015/16
Aida (Radamès) – Cairo Opera House, Egypt
Turandot (Calaf) – Teatr Wielki w Łodzi, Poland (Conductor : Antoni Wit)
Aida (Radamès) – Schlossfestspiele Schwerin, Germany
“The Best opera, best scenes” Opera Gala Concert – Daegu Opera House, Korea (Conductor : Daniel Lipton)
2016/17
Turandot (Calaf) – Teatr Wielki w Łodzi, Poland
Turandot (Calaf) – XXVI Festiwal im. Adama Didura in Sanok, Poland
Aida (Radamès) – Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theater, Georgia
Messa da Requiem (G. Verdi) – Teatro Politeama Catanzaro, Italy
Turandot (Calaf) – Daegu Opera House, South Korea (Conductor : János Ács , Director : Hiroki Ihara)
2017/18
Turandot (Calaf) – Teatr Wielki w Łodzi, Poland
Aida (Radamès) – National Theatre Prague, Czech Republic
Messa da Requiem (G. Verdi) – Teatro Veriano Luchetti, Basilica di San Pietro, Tuscania, Italy (Conductor : Isaac Karabtchevsky)
Aida (Radamès) – Cairo Opera House, Egypt
2018/19
Aida (Radamès) – Theater Dortmund, Germany
Aida (Radamès) – Cairo Opera House, Egypt
Aida (Radamès) – National Theatre Prague, Czech Republic
Samson et Dalila (Samson) – Teatr Wielki w Łodzi, Poland
Turandot (Calaf) – Teatr Wielki w Łodzi, Poland
Turandot (Calaf) – Theater Dortmund, Germany
Turandot (Calaf) – International Istanbul Opera Festival, Turkey
Turandot (Calaf) – Seoul Arts Center, South Korea
2019/20
Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton) – Theater Dortmund, Germany
Belcanto Operngala – Alte Oper Frankfurt, Germany
Aida (Radamès) – Luxor Festaval – Temple of Hatshepsut, Egypt (Conductor : Oksana Lyniv)
Tosca (Mario Cavaradossi) – Teatro di San Carlo, Italy
Aida (Radamès) – The State Opera in Prague, Czech Republic
Aida (Radamès) – Opera Nationala Romana Iasi, Romania
Il Trovatore (Manrico) – Linz State Theatre, Austria
Aida (Radamès) – (Landestheater Detmold) in Theater Winterthur, Swiss
Fernand Cortez (Telasco) – Theater Dortmund, Germany
Aida (Radamès) – Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, München, Germany
2020/21
Carmen (Don José) – Theater Dortmund, Germany
Quanto amore! Operngala – (Theater Dortmund) in Theater Winterthur, Swiss
2021/22
Tosca (Mario Cavaradossi) – Theater Dortmund, Germany
Fernand Cortez (Telasco) – Theater Dortmund, Germany
Turandot (Calaf) – Daegu International Opera Festival, Daegu Opera House, South Korea
2022/23
La fanciulla del West (Dick Johnson) – Theater Hagen, Germany
Nixon in China (Mao Tse-tung) – Theater Dortmund, Germany
Turandot (Calaf) – Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
Turandot (Calaf) – Sofia Opera & Ballet, Bulgaria
2023/24
Aida (Radamès) – Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
Don Carlo (Don Carlo) (it. 5 Act) – Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia (Conductor: Frédéric Chaslin, Director: Claus Guth)
Turandot (Calaf) – Sofia Opera & Ballet, Bulgaria
Turandot (Calaf) – Latvian National Opera, Riga, Latvia
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