Voice 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Baritone<\/h2>\n
Baritone Kidon Choi, from Seoul, is in his first year of the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Yamadori in Madama Butterfly<\/em>. He performed the title role in Rigoletto<\/em> last summer at the Chautauqua Music Festival.<\/p>\nHe received First Prize in the Cooper-Bing Vocal Competition 2017, First Prize in the Alfredo Silipigni Vocal Competition 2017, Third Prize in the 2017 Opera at 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.<\/p>\n
Kidon earned his Professional Studies Diploma from the Mannes School of Music in the New School in New York, completed his Master\u2019s degree at the Manhattan School of Music, and his Bachelor\u2019s degree at Hanyang University in Seoul.<\/p>\n
Kidon Choi is generously sponsored by CGI.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Voice 2018 – Program<\/strong><\/h2>\nARIA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nFIRST ROUND<\/strong><\/p>\nGiuseppe Verdi<\/strong>
\u00c8 sogno? O realt\u00e0 (Falstaff<\/em>)<\/p>\nPiotr Ilitch Tcha\u00efkovski<\/strong>
O Maria, Maria (Mazeppa<\/em>)<\/p>\nGaetano Donizetti<\/strong>
Cruda, funesta smania (Lucia di Lammermoor<\/em>)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
SEMIFINAL<\/strong><\/p>\nAmilcare Ponchielli<\/strong>
O monumento! (La Gioconda<\/em>)<\/p>\nGeorges Bizet<\/strong>
L’orage s’est calm\u00e9 \u2026 O Nadir, tendre ami de mon jeune \u00e2ge (Les p\u00eacheurs de perles<\/em>)<\/p>\nGiuseppe Verdi<\/strong>
Piet\u00e0, rispetto, amore (Macbeth<\/em>)<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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