| Biography | Tenor Yosep Kang has recently won acclaim in important theaters throughout Europe. He made his Vienna State Opera debut in 2014 as Rodolfo in La Boheme opposite Angela Gheorghiu and has returned there in the title role of Offenbachs Les Contes DHoffmann in May of 2014. He has been heard at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as the Duke in Rigoletto, the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier and most recently in January 2015 as Arnold in Rossinis Guillaume Tell. Kang added this role to his repertoire in September of 2014 in a new production of the work at the Oper Graz. Other recent appearances include La Boheme and Der Rosenkavalier at the SemperOper in Dresden, Rigoletto at Oper Leipzig, Tebaldo in Bellinis I Capuleti ed I Montecchi in concert at the Festspielaus Baden Baden, as well as for his debut at the Opera de Geneve. In February 2015 Kang made his Italian operatic debut in Rigoletto at the Rome Opera. He subsequently will make his debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein as Alfredo in La Traviata. He will also return to Dresden for concerts of Rossinis Stabat Mater under Myung Whun Chung and in La Boheme. Kang makes his Netherlands Opera Debut in April of 2018 as Macduff in Macbeth. In the 2015/2016 season Kang will star in the Hamburg State Operas new production of Guillaume Tell. He will return to the Bavarian State Opera in Rigoletto and will make his debut with the Australian Opera in Sydney in La Boheme. The artist will also appear as the Italian tenor in the Netherlands Operas production of Der Rosenkavalier, at the SemperOper in La Traviata and at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in Lucia di Lammermoor. |