Leonardo Lee, Baritone

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Leonardo Lee begins his engagement as a member of the ensemble at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where, this season, he will sing Amonasro, Nabucco, Germont, Scarpia, Malatesta and Peter Besenbinder.

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Since the beginning of the 2024/25 season Leonardo Lee is a member of the ensemble at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, where he will primarily sing the major roles of the Italian repertoire such as Amonasro, Germont, Scarpia and Nabucco. As Germont, he was also a guest at the Arts Center in Seoul in the summer of 2024.

Further engagements this season take him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Kurwenal in Tristan and Isolde and to the Landestheater Coburg, where he will make his debut in the title role in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.

Previously, Leonardo Lee’s interpretations of Wotan in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre as well as Alberich in Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, roles which he sang at the state theatres of Kassel and Oldenburg, attracted great artistic attention.

Further contracts have taken him to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Rigoletto and Kurwenal, to the Landestheater Coburg and the Aalto-Theater Essen as Macbeth, to the Verbier Festival as Rigoletto, to the Teatro Verdi in Padova as Belcore and to the theater in Seoul as Ford. On the concert stage, he has made guest appearances at the Gewandhaus Leipzig and the SWR Orchestra.

Leonardo Lee has successfully participated in numerous international singing competitions. He was a finalist in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World (2019) and the Tenor Viñas Contest in Barcelona (2021). He won 1st prize at the Iris Adami Corradetti Opera Competition in Padova (2018) and, in October 2022, the 2nd prize at the Concorso Internazionale “Città di Pienza“.

After his Bachelor of Music at the Sejong University in Seoul, he moved on to the University of Music, Theatre and Media in Hannover, where he graduated with a diploma in 2018. Master classes with Leo Nucci, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Brigitte Fassbaender, Barbara Frittoli and Dimitri Platanias completed his education.

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Giacomo Puccini
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Il tabarro – Michele
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Tosca – Scarpia
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Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier – Herr von Faninal
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Giuseppe Verdi
Aida – Amonasro
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Un ballo in maschera – Renato
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Don Carlo – Rodrigo (in preparation for 2025/26)
Falstaff – Ford
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Luisa Miller – Miller (in preparation)
Macbeth – Macbeth
Landestheater Coburg, Aalto Theater Essen
Nabucco – Nabucco
Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
Rigoletto – Rigoletto
Verbier Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin
La Traviata – Germont
Seoul Arts Center, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
Richard Wagner
Der fliegende Holländer – Holländer
Landestheater Coburg
Götterdämmerung – Alberich
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Parsifal – Klingsor (in preparation)
Das Rheingold – Wotan
Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Staatstheater Kassel
Siegfried – Alberich
Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
Siegfried – Wanderer (in preparation)
Tristan und Isolde – Kurwenal
Deutsche Oper Belin
Die Walküre– Wotan (in concert)
Staatstheater Kassel

 

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