PROGRAM
 

ROSSINI - La gazza ladra 도둑까치

Ouverture 서곡

ROSSINI - Il Barbiere di Siviglia 세빌리아의 이발사

Largo al factotum 나는 이 거리의 만물 박사                                      

BELLINI – La Sonnambula 몽유병의 여인

Care Compagne 친애하는 여러분                                                 

DONIZETTI - Don Pasquale 돈 빠스꾸왈레

Cheti cheti immantinente 조용히 조용히 즉시                         

DELIBES – Lakmé 라크메

Duo des fleurs 꽃의 이중창                                      

GOUNOD – Roméo et Juliette 로미오와 줄리엣

Je veux vivre 꿈 속에 살고 싶어                                                  

BOITO - Mefistofele 메피스토펠레

Son lo spirito che nega 나는 언제나 부정만 하는 정령이니라                       
  

GOUNOD – Faust 파우스트

Mais ce Dieu, que peut-il pour moi? 그들의 신이 나를 위해 도대체 무엇을 해줄 수 있단 말인가?                

INTERMISSION

BELLINI – Norma 노르마

Ouverture 서곡

Meco all’altar di Venere 비너스 제단에 나와 함께                                    

ROSSINI – Tancredi 탄크레디

Di tanti palpiti 이렇게 가슴 설림이                                             

Lascami - non t'ascolto 날 떠나요 -난 당신 말을 듣지 않아요                                      

VERDI –Un Ballo in Maschera 가면무도회

Alzati! …Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima 그 영혼을 더럽힌 것은 바로 당신이라오                                            

VERDI – La Traviata 라트라비아타

Addio del passato 지난날이여 안녕                                                   

Parigi, o cara 사랑하는 이여, 파리를 떠나서                         
 

VERDI – Don Carlo 돈 카를로

Restate! 머무르라!                                                 

DONIZETTI – Lucia di Lammermoor 람메르무어의 루치아

Sulla tomba che rinsera - Verranno a te 배반당한 아버지가 누워있는 무덤에서                                 

 
 
 MAGE Opera Orchestra 

As the festival orchestra of the MAGE International Belcanto Festival (MIBF 2024), it is an orchestra that will perform at gala concerts, documentary operas, etc. held in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do in 2024. It is an opera orchestra composed mainly of principals and members of major domestic and international opera theaters and orchestras.
 
 
 Conductor Hae LEE
 
 A Korean conductor, Hae Lee was the 2nd prize winner of the Kussewitzky Conducting Competition in Italy and the Finalist of the Besançon Conducting Competition in France. Hae was invited to the LEAD! Foundation’s masterclass in Finland and after it, he was selected as the young conductor for the final concert of the Fiskars Festival. In this concert, Hae shared the podium with Esa-Pekka Salonen, James Gaffigan, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
 

In the States, Hae served as a cover conductor of Marin Alsop for her concerts at Carnegie Hall. Hae also conducted at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall as an assistant for David Hayes and Mannes Orchestra when they performed Ives’ Symphony No. 4 which requires three conductors. Hae was a fellow of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and the assistant conductor of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Academy.
 

In South Korea, Hae was invited to the master classes with Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean National Symphony Orchestra, and Korea National Opera. He conducted operas such as Le nozze di Figaro, L’elisir d’amore, La Bohème, and Gianni Schicchi.
 

In Europe, Hae studied at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg as an exchange student, and he has conducted Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne, Orchestre Victor Hugo, and Orchestra sinfonica città di Grosseto.
 

Hae received his Bachelor of Arts in Conducting from the Korea National University of Arts, and he holds his Master of Music from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Hae is appointed as Associate Conductor (Jack and Mary Ann Frable Associate Conductor Chair) of Richmond Symphony.
 
 
 Conductor Rira KIM
 
 Berlin based South Korean conductor Rira Kim, recently was the assistant conductor at the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest in Netherlands for the project ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Unsuk Chin, performed in Concergebow. She was also the assistant conductor of Korean National Opera (KNO) opera studio season 2023, assisting and conducting productions such as and from Mozart. Other highlights of her include concerts at the Köthener Bach Festtage 2022 with Die Junge Norddeutsche Philharmonie, and was among the semi-finalists of the Forum Dirigieren des Deutschen Musikrates funded ‘Das Kritische Orchester’.
 
 Furthermore, Rira Kim was a selected candidate in many renowned master classes with Jaap van Zweden, Marin Alsop, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Johannes Schlaefli, Jorma Panula, Johannes Schlaeflie, Jorma Panula, David Reiland, Kristiina Poska, a.o. Her broad international orchestra experience includes, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre national de Metz, Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, Korean National Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Halle, Philharmonische Orchester des Staatstheaters Cottbus, a.o.
 
 She studied BMus orchestral conducting at HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin with Prof. Christian Ehwald and currently finishing her MMus under the guidance of Prof. Markus Stenz. Since 2020, holds the Deutschlandstipendium sponsored by the Deutscher Bühnenverein.
 
 
 Soprano Sooyeon LEE 
 
 On the stage of in Wales in 2019, Coloratura Soprano Sooyeon Lee made herself present as the final soprano in the main prize as well as in the song prize. Returning back to Germany for season 19/20, she will make a debut of Amina of La Sonnambula and perform again her recognized role of Lucia, along with other roles.

After having won the 2nd prize and audience prize at the 2015 ARD international music competition in Germany, the south Korean soprano began to receive attention from Europe. Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor), Gilda (Rigoletto), Konstanze (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Amina (La Sonnambula), Marie (La Fille du Regiment) have been her main roles among others on the stage of Oldenburg Theater in Germany, where she has been a member of Ensemble since the season 16/17.

In the upcoming seasons, she will make Musikverein debut in the Golden Hall in the December 2019 in a series of New Years Concerts with the Tonkünstler Orchestra conducted by Alfred Eschwé. Also, she will make a solo debut at Wigmore hall in London in October 2020 as a recital of Cardiff singer song prize finalist.

She graduated with distinction from the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, where she obtained a Master’s degree in opera by KS Edith Lienbacher, and she graduated postgraduate degrees in Vocal, Lied and Oratorio by KS Gabriele Fontana.

Besides the prizes at the 2015 ARD international music competition, she has won numerous other competitions as a young soprano, including Operalia competition, the Gian Battista Viotti Competition,  Pavarotti Giovani Awards, Beaumarchais International Music Competition in Vienna and the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg.

She had a solo concert with Helmut Deutsch in India and sang as a Keumho young Artist in Korea, and Frauen Kirche in Dresden. Also she sang at the Vienna Musikverein, MuTh, Berlin Philharmonic, Dubai Opera house. She joined Cully Classique festival, SWR festival , Rheingau festival, and Schwarzwald Festival. At the university, she played as Adele in J. Strauß’ operetta Die Fledermaus at the Schlosstheater Schönbrunn.
 
 Soprano Haeji CHANG
 
 Hae Ji Chang, soprano, has been described as “an exciting young artist on the rise” (Opera Boston) with a voice “full of silvery color and nuance” (Boston Globe). Recently she performed Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata in Seoul.

Ms. Chang has performed between the United States and Korea from 2010. Gilda (Rigoletto) in Michigan and Maine, Mimi (La bohème) with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Pamina in San Jose, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) in Aspen. She also sang Marguerite (Faust), Sophie (Werther), Pamina (The Magic Flute) in Seoul, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Rosina (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) in Yeosu in Korea. In the past, She made her debut at Seattle Opera as Setsuko from An American Dream(World Premiere).

She trained as a Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist in LA and sang Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen conducted by Plácido Domingo, with subsequent appearances as the First Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute and as Crobyle in Thaïs. As a Gerdine Young Artist, she also covered the role of Mélisande in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.

Ms. Chang also made her debut with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as Ste. Marguerite in Honegger’s oratorio, Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher, which also marked her debut at Carnegie Hall. She was the soprano soloist in Fauré’s Requiem with Colorado Music Festival Chamber Orchestra and sang Exultate Jubilate K.165 with West Los Angeles Symphony in Royce Hall. Ms. Chang made her international concert debut in Moscow and St. Petersburg as well.

Ms. Chang won many competitions such as, Plácido Domingo's Operalia Competition in Verona, Palm Springs Opera Guild, Metropolitan Opera National Council, Peter Elvins competition.

In this season, she will return as Marguerite and Pamina in Korea and also make her debut as Zerlina in Seoul Arts Center in October.
 
 Counter-tenor Siman CHUNG
 
 Siman Chung, countertenor from Busan, South Korea, returned to the Metropolitan Opera for the 2021-22 season, to participate in their productions of RODELINDA and AKHNATEN.

In the summer of 2022, he will sing the role of Siebel in FAUST for the first time at the Seoul Arts Center in Korea.

In 2022-23, he will join the San Francisco Opera for the first time. Later that season, he will return to San Francisco ,for concerts with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale. He will sing in the Three countertenors concert with L’orchestre de L’Opera Royal at Chateau de Versailles.

He will return to the role of ORPHEE in his debut with Edmonton Opera. In the spring of 2018, he made his role and company debut with Opera Columbus in the Berlioz version of Gluck’s opera ORPHEE ET EURYDICE.This same production then traveled to Toronto and the Banff Festival. In all three venues, he had a great personal success.

In 2018-19, Mr. Chung created a leading role in the new opera BEAUTY AND SADNESS, which had its World Premiere in Hong Kong. That season ,in New York, he sang concerts with Voices of Ascension and as a guest with Juilliard’s 415 Early Music Ensemble.

The 2016-17 season saw Mr. Chung’s return to Korea National Opera in Vivaldi’s ORLANDO FINTO PAZZO. That season ,he made his NY solo recital debut, presented by The Opera Index Foundation, after winning one of that organization’s prestigious Awards. In that same year, he also received a Grant from The Sullivan Foundation, and First Prize at the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition. In addition, he won the “Best Countertenor” Prize at the Francisco Vinas International Singing Competition in Barcelona.

Siman Chung made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 2015, singing Handel’s MESSIAH. He attended Mannes School of Music in NY, where he sang the leading role of the Refugee in Jonathan Dove’s opera FLIGHT, with Mannes Opera.

  
Tenor Kyungho KIM
 
 The young Korean tenor Kyungho Kim is a graduate of the National University of Arts in Seoul and an alumnus of the Universit't der K+nste in Berlin. His teachers were Sangho Choi and Enrico Facini. He participated successfully in international competitions and was honored by prizes awarded by Competizione dell Opera‘ and ́ ‚Vincenzo Bellini Competition‘ in Italy.

He was a scholar of ‚Richard-Wagner-Stiftung‘ in Bayreuth, ‚Stiftung LYRA‘ in Z+rich and of the ‚Liz Mohn Kultur- und Musikstiftung‘. Kyungho Kim gain first experiences as a concert soloist in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Venice in 2009 und 2010. Moreover, he appeared as concert singer in Salzburg and Berlin.

From 2011 to 2013, he was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Staatsoper in Berlin, where he performed 1. Geharnischter in „Die Zauberfl*te“, Prinz in Wolf-Ferrari‘s „Aschenputtel“ and Flavio in Norma“.

In December 2012, he debuted to great acclaim as Chevalier des Grieux in a production of Massenet’s Manon“ in Dortmund.

Furthermore, he appeared as the Duca/“Rigoletto“, Macduff/ “Macbeth“, Rodolfo/“La Bohème“, Roméo/“Roméo et Juliette“, Gabriele Adorno/“Simon Boccanegra“ at the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, asRodolfo and Ismaele/“Nabucco“ at Oper Leipzig, as S'nger/“Der Rosenkavalier“ in Dortmund, Tamino/“Die Zauberfl*te“ at Oper Graz and debuted in a production of Turandot at Bregenz Festival. It was at Semperoper Dresden, at Staatsoper Stuttgart and at Theater St. Gallen, where he was recently invited to sing Rodolfo again. Moreover, Kyungho Kim guested at Oper Graz and at Staatstheater Kassel to perform Gounod’s Roméo in „Roméo et Juliette“.

Kyungho Kim was member of Oper Leipzig until summer 2019 performing roles such as Edgardo/“Lucia di Lammermoor“, Tamino, Alfredo/“La Traviata“ and Duca/“Rigoletto“. Now guest he had an enormous personal success with his debuts as Prince/“Rusalka“ and „Faust“ in St.Gallen, highly acclaimed by public and critics. On a short notice he sang the role of Prince/“Rusalka“ also at Vlaamse Opera, the production can be seen on live stream. He was reinvited for Rodolfo/“La Bohème“ in season 2021/22.

Future plans(2022/23)include for example his return to State Opera Prague, his debut at Staatsoper Stuttgart as Prince/Rusalka.

 
 
 Baritone Joo Won KANG 
 
 JOO WON KANG, a native of South Korea, is consistently establishing himself as one of the most talented baritones today, both with audience and critics.He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Marcello in La Boheme. He also appeared in the company's new production of Don Carlo, as well as Turandot(Ping)

Mr Kang has appeared in leading roles,such as Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Germont in La Traviata, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Dandini in La Cenerentola, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, the title role in Eugene Onegin and Ping in Turandot in opera companies throughout the US, including San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Canadian Opera Company, Arizona Opera, Wolf Trap Opera and Utah Opera. He also appeared at Boston Symphony’s Lady Macbeth of Mtensk in Boston and Carnegie Hall and the live concert recording will be released with Deutsche Grammophon Label. 

Highlights of Mr. Kang’s 2016-2017 season include his debut at the Wexford Festival, Ireland where he sang the leading role of Corrado in Donizetti’s Maria de Rudenz with great success. Of his performance, Opera News Magazine called his “...The standout voice of this year’s festival…” He sang the role of Chou-Enlai in John Adams' Nixon in China with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by the composer. This summer he sings Germont in La Traviata with PORT opera, and in the fall he returns to San Francisco Opera to sing Ping in Turandot, which opens their new season. Additional upcoming debuts include Arizona Opera, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis. In 2024

In the 2015-16 season, Mr. Kang returned to Wolf Trap Opera to sing Sharpless in Madama Butterfly at the Filene Centre, with the National Symphony Orchestra. In 2015-16 He also sang the title role in Eugene Onegin with North Carolina Opera, Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Fort Worth Opera, and his debut in Les Pêcheurs de Perles with Seattle Opera.

His engagements for the 2014-15 season included Marcello in San Francisco Opera’s family performances of La Bohème. He also made debuts as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with Opera Naples, and as Germont in La Traviata with North Carolina Opera. He then went to the Spoleto Festival USA, to sing in the World Premiere of Huang Ruo's opera Paradise Interrupted, which he repeated in Singapore and at the Lincoln Center Festival.

Mr. Kang made his debut with Korea National Opera in the new opera Soul Mate, He also made his role debut with the company as Conte di Luna in Trovatore and joined the roster of Wolf Trap Opera performing the double role of Le Directeur and Le Gendarme in Les Mamelles de Tirésias as well as Moralès in Carmen with the National Symphony Orchestra.

As a member of the 2011 Merola Opera Program, he was invited to join San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Adler Fellowship, where he was a member for two years. Mr. Kang appeared on the stage of San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House, in a variety of roles including Captain Gardiner in Heggie’s Moby Dick, which was televised nationally on PBS and released on DVD. With the company he sang the role of Figaro in San Francisco Opera’s family performances of The Barber of Seville. Prior to his time in San Francisco, Mr. Kang was a member of the Young Artist Program at Florida Grand Opera, where his roles included Germont in La Traviata.

 
 Tenor Sungmin SONG 
 
 He comes from a family of architects and engineers in South Korea. He also tended professionally in this direction, then studied computer engineering and was already working in this field, when a singing professor in the church became aware of him and recommended Sung min Song to have his voice trained. He didn't have to be told twice, gave up his apartment and job in South Korea and came to Germany to study. He studied at the Musikhochschule in Munich with Prof. Frieder Lang and Prof. Daniel Kotlinski and graduated from there. 

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In the 2023/24 season He made his successful debut with Der fliegende Holländer (Erik) in Komische Oper Berlin and sung "Die lustige Witwe(Camille de Rosillon)" in Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. the tenor recorded three Mozart masses on CD with the Cologne Chamber Orchestra. And he sang "Stabat Mater by Dvorak" with the Bochum Symphony Orchestra (incl. CD recording), "Magic Flute" in Korea National Opera, "La Traviata(Alfredo)" in Theater Osnabrück, Eugen Onegin(Lensky) The Rake's Progress(Tom) in Staatstheater Augsburg, "Verdi's Requiem" in Elbphilharmonie, Bremer Konzerthaus and Wunderino Arena Kiel, Opera Gala in Alte Oper Frankfurt and  "Beethovens Symphony No.9" with Sinfonieorchester Aachen, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Hofer Symphoniker, and in Isarphilharmonie mit Münchner Symphoniker 

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 The season of 2023/24 will be followed by  "Beethoven Symphony.9" in National Forum of Music Wroclaw and "Verdis Requiem" in Oldenburgischen Staatstheater, "Operetta Gala" with Württembergische Philharmonie and "Les pêcheurs de perles(Nadir)" Concert Version Tour in Göttingen, Bordeaux and Pau in France, Concert Tour to Asia with "Les Musiciens du Louvre" with Dirigent "Marc Minkowski".

 2024/25 Saison he will Mendelssohn »Lobgesang« (Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra) , Bruckners Te Deum & Janacek, Glagolitische Mess (Hamburg Elbphilharmonie Orchester), Dvorak Stabat Mater with MDR Rundfunkorchester and Rundfunkchor im Gewandhaus (Dirigent : Dennis Russell Davies),

 Beethoven Symphonie.9 with WDR Rundfunkchor in Kölner Philharmonie and in Theater Aachen and Oskar Gottlieb Blarr "Die Jesus-Passion"with Hamburg Elbphilharmonie Orchester in St.Michael Hamburg sing.

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 In the 2022/23 season he made his role debut in "Dvořák's Rusalka (Barrie Kosky Direction), (Prinz) " at the Komisch Oper Berlin and sang he "Gounod Faust(Faust)" in Aalto Theater Essen",  "Verdis Messa da Requiem" with Sinfonieorchester Basel, "Rossini Guillaume Tell" in Bühnen Bern “Don Pasquale (Ernesto)", "Fledermaus(Alfred)" at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, "La Traviata(Alfredo)" at the Staatstheater Augsburg, "Turandot(Pong) in Theater Magdeburg, "La Traviata (Alfredo)" im Staatstheater Darmstadt. In the concert area he performed at the "Star & Rising Stars Festival" with the conductor "Vladimir Jurowski" in Munich, Puccini's "Messa di gloria" with the International Bachakademie/Stuttgart Philharmoniker(Incl. CD Recording), the "Stabat Mater by Dvorak"with the Elbphilharmonie Orchester in St.Michael Hamburg, and the "Carmina Burana" in Isarphilharmonie with Münchner Symphoniker" and  in Wiener Musikverein with Tonkünstler-Orchester with the Conductor Yutaka Sado..

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In the 2021/22 season, Sung min Song was able to show the full range of his repertoire: At the Staatstheater Augsburg he performed "Gounod's Faust" , "Bach's Johnannes Passion (Evangelist)" in Warsaw and at the Musikverein Vienna, "Mendelssohn's 2nd Symphony Lobgesang" with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne and "Orff's Carmina Burana" at the Mecklenburg State Theater at the Schlossfestspiele in Schwerin. he interpreted the role of Brighella in Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos" at the Landestheater Salzburg and Saarländisches Staatstheater, "Verdi's Messa da Requiem" at the Theater Münster and St.Michaelis in Hamburg, and "Beethoven's 9th Symphony" with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra on New Year's Eve 2021. The concert was televised in Germany and Singapore.

In 2019 he appeared at the Tyrolean Festival in Erl in a production of "Rossini's Guillaume Tell (Arnold)" conducted by Michael Güttler and sang "Puccini's Messa di Gloria" with the MDR Sinfonieorchester and MDR Rundfunkchor conducted by Domingo Hindoyan at the Leipzig Gewandhaus. In 2018, the tenor sang "Verdi's Messa da Requiem" at the Rheingau Music Festival as well as in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence under the baton of Kent Nagano. The performance of "Strauss Feuersnot " with the Munich Radio Orchestra conducted by Ulf Schirmer was released on CD by cpo.  In 2016, the Bavarian Radio Kissinger Summer Festival broadcasted "Rossini's  Stabat Mater" with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alain Altinoglu. Sung min Song has been an ensemble member at the Saarländisches Staatstheater, he thrilled audiences and the press as Arnold in Rossini's "Guillaume Tell"; the opera production was recorded and broadcast by Arte Concert.

The artist has received numerous awards at competitions such as the Richard Strauss Singing Competition, Anneliese Rothenberger Prize, Gasteig Music Prize, Kissinger Summer Luitpold Prize, 3rd prize  at the 33 ° Concorso Internazionale Valsesia Musica 2017, at the Hariclea Darclée Festival and the International Voice Competition second prize and Grand Prix and Prix Special ADAMI at the Vincenzo Bellini Concours International de Belcanto in Paris.