Aria's Artists Management

Samuel Youn - Bass-baritone

Bass-baritone Samuel Youn received his first vocal training in his hometown Seoul and completed his studies at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milano and at the Conservatory Cologne. He won several prizes in various international competitions like Toti dal Monte (Treviso), Chung-Ang (Seoul), Franz Schubert (Genoa), Francesco Albanese (Naples), Riccardo Zandonai (Rovereto) and Enrico Caruso (Milano).

He toured Europe as well as Asia, where he performed major roles of his broad operatic and concert repertoire. He worked with Zubin Metha, Christian Thielemann, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov , Markus Stenz, Peter Ruzicka, Philippe Jordan, Ralf Weikert, Will Humburg and Pinkas Steinberg. He gave his debut in Italy as Mephistofele / Faust (Gounod) at Teatro Comunale di Treviso and Teatro di Rovigo. Further engagements led him as Oroveso / Norma at Sala Verdi di Milano, as Jochanaan / Salome at Teatro de la Maestranza, Seville, Teatro Petruzelli di Bari and Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

Since the beginning of season 1999/00 he is member of the ensemble at Cologne Opera. Over the last years he was heard in various important roles like Donner and Gunther / Der Ring des Nibelungen, Klingsor / Parsifal , Kurwenal / Tristan und Isolde, Alfio / Cavalleria rusticana, Tonio / Pagliacci, Escamillo / Carmen, Kaspar / Freischütz , Orest / Elektra, Amonasro / Aida as well as in the role of Four Villains in Les contes d'Hoffmann.

In 2004 he was invited to sing at the Bayreuther Festspiele, where he debuted in Parsifal and sang in Tannhäuser in 2005.
In 2006/07 he was heard as Geisterbote in the hailed production of Die Frau ohne Schatten and in 2008/09 as Lindorf, Coppélius, Miracle, Dapertutto / Les contes d'Hoffmann at Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. In a new production of Lohengrin in 2010 he performed as Heerrufer.
He sang Geisterbote / Die Frau ohne Schatten and Kaspar / Freischütz at Hamburgische Staatsoper as well as at Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

He made great Debut in Lisbon as Wanderer / Siegfried, and as Kurwenal / Tristan und Isolde, Klingsor / Parsifal, Sebastiano / Tiefland at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as Donner / Rheingold at the Opéra Nationale de Paris .

Future projects include: in 2011 his return to Bayreuth as Heerrufer / Lohengrin, Orest / Elektra at Teatro Real in Madrid , Jochanaan / Salome at Teatro Bolzano, Teatro Piacenza and Teatro di Modena.
In 2012 Geisterbote / Die Frau ohne Schatten at Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Holländer / Der fliegende Holländer at Cologne Opera;
in 2013 Kurwenal / Tristan und Isolde at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Donner / Rheingold at Opéra Nationale de Paris, Barak / Die Frau ohne Schatten at Cologne Opera;
in 2014 Mefistofele / La Damnation de Faust at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

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