Lee Kwang-keun

Lee Kwang-Keun during a concert in St. Paul's Church in Ulm

Lee Kwang-keun (* 1970 in Seoul ) is a South Korean opera singer with a baritone voice .

Live and act

From 1990 to 1997 he studied singing at Yonsei University in his hometown with Kim Kwan-Dong. This was followed by postgraduate studies at the Conservatorio di Milano in the vocal class of the famous Italian tenor Vittorio Terranova from 2000 to 2002 .

From 1996 to 2007 the artist had engagements on music stages in Korea, Italy, Japan, Switzerland as well as at the Opera Festival Heidenheim and Opera Festival Gut Immling in Chiemgau .

The singer has been a permanent member of the ensemble at Theater Ulm since the 2006/2007 season . There he sang: Rigoletto ( Rigoletto ), Wolfram ( Tannhäuser ), Eugen Onegin ( Eugen Onegin ), Ottokar ( Der Freischütz ), Macbeth ( Macbeth ), Graf Almaviva ( Le nozze di Figaro ), Prosdocimo ( The Turk in Italy ), Scarpia ( Tosca ), Leander ( The love of the three oranges ) etc.

In the summer of 2010 he sang the Doctor Malatesta in Don Pasquale with great success at the Festival Ópera en el Convento on the Canary Island of La Palma.

Lee Kwang-Keun is also a popular song, oratorio and concert singer.

Awards (selection)

• 1996: 2nd prize at the Opera Singing Competition in Kyoto, Japan
• 2000: Vincitore del Baritone Maria Callas in Pama, Italy
• 2001: 1st Prize Opera Concorso II. Barbiere di Siviglia in Lecce, Italy
• 2002: 2nd Prize Citta di Rho in Milano, Italy
• 2002: 1st Prize Johannes Brahms in Genoa, Italy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the booklet of the Theater Ulm for the 2006/2007 season, there it is shown on the back of p. 17, while the booklet for the 2005/2006 season does not mention it in the list of the music theater ensemble on p. 110.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Kwang-keun is the first name.