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 Tenor Konstantin Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1988.

He completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the College of Music, Seoul National University in Korea and Konzertexamen at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in Germany.


 Konstantin is the recipient of awards from various competitions, including first prizes in the Neue Stimmen Singing Competition and SWR Young Opera Stars Competition in Germany and Anneliese Rothenberger Competition and Luis Sigall Competition in Chile. He also received third prize in the Montreal International Competition and fourth prize in the Seoul International Competition. He has represented South Korea at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.
 

 Konstantin made his debut at the age of twenty-one, before moving to Germany, as Alfredo in La Traviata at the Seoul Opera House and as Rodolfo in La Bohème and Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore in other Seoul performances.
 

 In 2016 he made his European debut at the Theater Freiburg as Ferrando in Cosi fan tutte. In 2017 he performed at the Wiener

Volksoper as Rosillon in Die lustige Witwe under the baton of Alfred

Eschwé and Theater Solingen as Sou-Chong in Das Land des Lächelns.

 

 In 2018 he performed as Rosillon in Die lustige Witwe under the baton of Stefano Montanari at the Teatro La Fenice, Venezia and asTamino in Die Zauberflöte and Ottavio in Don Giovanni in Seoul, Korea.


 Over the course of the 2021–2023 season Konstantin performed as Duca in Rigoletto and Alfred in Die Fledermaus in Incheon, Korea, Duca in Rigoletto at the Seoul Metropolitan Opera, and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with the Korean National Opera. He also performed several concerts as a tenor soloist, including Mozart’s Requiem with the Korean National Choir, Michael Haydn’s Requiem, Händel’s Messiah, and Orff’s Carmina Burana with various civil choirs in Korea, and Scriabin’s Symphony no. 1 and Mozart’s Vesperse Solennes de Confessore under the baton of Shin-Ik Hahm.

 

 In the Season of the 23/24 Konstantin performed as Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater and Duca in Rigoletto at Daegu Opera House and Prinz in Die Liebe zu drei Orangen from Prokofiev at Staatstheater Cottbus.

 

 Konstantin has performed with the majority of the orchestras in Korea, including the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Myung-Whun Chung, Korean National Orchestra, and Korea Broadcasting System Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Yoel Levi. He has also performed with orchestras in Japan, China, and Chile.

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