Baritone Kidon Choi, from Seoul, is in his first year of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Yamadori in Madama Butterfly. He performed the title role in Rigoletto last summer at the Chautauqua Music Festival.
He received First Prize in the Cooper-Bing Vocal Competition 2017, First Prize in the Alfredo Silipigni wat Florham Vocal Competition (Violetta DuPont Vocal Competition), Second Prize in the 2016 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition and the Major Award in the 2016 Opera Index Vocal Competition.
Kidon Choi earned his Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes School of Music in the New School in New York, completed his Master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music, and his Bachelor’s degree at Hanyang University in Seoul.
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