About
South Korean tenor Sehoon Moon, finalist of the Operalia in 2016 and of the Francisco Viñas Singing Contest in 2017, made his debut at the Glyndebourne Festival covering the role of Ernesto in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in summer 2017, and was consequently invited back to debut a major role with Glyndebourne on Tour in 2019, as well as to cover the Italian Singer at the festival in summer 2018. Furthermore, he will also make a role and house debut as Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata in Fall 2018 with the Malmö Opera.
Sehoon Moon has also won the 1st Prize of the Mt. Fuji Opera Competition in Japan in November 2017.
Past engagements include the role of the British delegate in Kyoto in the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s opera CO2 at the Teatro alla Scala in 2015, and he also was heard as Fenton in Falstaff at the Royal Opera House Muscat, in a production directed by Stepten Medcalf.
Sehoon Moon joined the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in 2013 and performed in a concert at the Boshoi Theater in Moscow in 2014, hosted by the Bolshoi Academy and conducted by Tugan Sokhiev.
Sehoon Moon earned a Bachelor’s degree in opera singing at the Dankook University in Seoul in 2011, where he made his debut in the role of Alfredo Germont in La Traviata as well as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. That same year he was awarded the second prize at the prestigious International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Austria.