Korean baritone Jin Sol wins at Metropolitan Opera's audition
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By Kim Ji-soo
Jin Sol, 30, a South Korean baritone, has come out among the top five winners at the National Council Auditions held at the U.S. Metropolitan Opera.
Past South Korean winners of the audition known for discovering young opera singers include soprano Hong Hei-kyung and tenor Lee Sung-eun. The audition marked its 63rd session this year.
Jin, who is a graduate of Yonsei University in South Korea and the Manhattan School of Music, sang “Di Provenza il mar” from Verdi’s “La Traviata” and Tchaikovsky’s “The Queen of Spades” in the final round of the competition held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on Sunday.
His fellow winners were soprano Yelena Dyachek, mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski and baritone Sean Michael Plumb. The five winners were in their mid-20s and Jin is 30. The award includes an individual cash prize of $15,000 for each winner.
Jin who also completed the San Francisco Opera Merola Program is signed with the well-known New York management company Jemzky Green. He has won the top prize at Gerda Lissner Foundation’s International Vocal Competition and was recently selected among the top 25 rising stars by “Opera News.”