Kwangchul Youn

Kwangchul Youn (born 1966) is a South Korean operatic bass and academic voice teacher. He made an international career based in Germany, from 1994 to 2004 at the Berlin State Opera. He has performed leading roles at international opera houses and festivals, such as Gurnemanz in Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival, Mephisto in Faust at the Vienna State Opera, and King Marke in Tristan und Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera.

Life and career Youn was born in 1966 in Chungju to a family of farmers. He first trained to become an architect, but then turned to voice studies at Cheongju University at age 19.

Ludwig van Beethoven Don Fernando and Rocco in Fidelio Vincenzo Bellini Oroveso in Norma Hector Berlioz Narbal in Les Troyens Claude Debussy Arkel in Pelléas et Mélisande Gaetano Donizetti Heinrich VIII in Anna Bolena Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore Raimondo in Lucia di Lammermoor Talbot in Maria Stuarda Paul Dukas Barbe-bleue in Ariane et Barbe-bleue Umberto Giordano M. de Siriex in Fedora Charles Gounod Mephistopheles in Faust Giacomo Meyerbeer Bertram in Robert le diable Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Figaro and Bartolo in Le nozze di Figaro Don Giovanni, Il Commendatore and Leporello in Don Giovanni Alfonso in Così fan tutte Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte Giacomo Puccini Colline in La bohème Gioachino Rossini Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia Camille Saint-Saëns An old Hebrew in Samson et Dalila Richard Strauss Nazarener in Salome Pyotr Tchaikovsky Gremin in Eugene Onegin Giuseppe Verdi Attila in Attila Ramphis and Il Re in Aida Fillippo II and Großinquisitor in Don Carlos Marchese von Calatrava and Guardiano in La forza del destino Banquo in Macbeth Sparafucile in Rigoletto Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra Ferrando in Il trovatore Wurm in Luisa Miller Loredano in I due Foscari Lodovico in Otello Messa da Requiem Richard Wagner A night watchman and Veit Pogner in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Gurnemanz and Titurel in Parsifal Fasolt in Das Rheingold Hunding in Die Walküre König Marke in Tristan und Isolde Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen in Tannhäuser Heinrich der Vogler in Lohengrin Daland in Der fliegende Holländer

Awards 2018: Berlin Kammersänger