Siman Chung Tickets

Siman Chung, a native of Busan, South Korea, looks forward to a number of important engagements in the 2018-2019 season as his career continues to grow.

In the the autumn, he will return to the Metropolitan Opera to participate in the American premiere production of Nico Muly's opera MARNIE and in spring 2019, he will create a leading role in a new opera "Beauty and Sadness", which will have its world premiere in Hong Kong.

In the fall of 2017, Mr. Chung joined the roster of the Metropolitan Opera to cover a leading role in the company premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Exterminating Angel. And in Spring 2018, made his role and company debut with Opera Columbus -- the title role of Orphée, in the Berlioz version of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. This same production of Orphée then traveled to Against the Grain in Toronto, and, in summer 2018,to the Banff Festival. In all three venues, he had a great personal success.

In Spring 2017, Mr. Chung returned to Korea National Opera in the role of Grifone in Vivaldi's Orlando finto pazzo, which he had first performed there in 2016, earning critical praise for his “voice of power and emotion. . . suggesting readiness for even larger countertenor assignments internationally.”

The 2016-2017 season also saw Mr. Chung’s NY recital debut, presented by Opera Index in March as their Emerging Artist in a program of selections by Händel, Mozart, Brahms, Chausson, and Quilter; the recital followed upon Mr. Chung’s being awarded Opera Index's Arthur E. Walter Memorial Award in 2015. He was also awarded a grant winner for 2016-2017 by The Sullivan Foundation.

Mr. Chung made his Carnegie Hall debut in December 2015, singing in Händel’s Messiah with The Cecilia Chorus. Another recent success was in the leading role of the Refugee in Jonathan Dove’s Flight with Mannes Opera. He has also been heard with Mannes Opera in excerpts from Rinaldo, Giulio Cesare, and as Idamante in Idomeneo, during a concert evening of opera scenes.

In Spring 2016, Mr. Chung took the first prize in the prestigious Gerda Lissner Foundation Annual International Vocal Competition. He also won the “Best Counter-Tenor Prize” in 2010 at the Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition (Barcelona), and in 2009 was cited for “Best Vocal Performance by a Young Talent” in the Alexander Girardi International Singing Competition held in Coburg, Germany.