Tenor Duke Kim is a Second-Place Winner of Operalia (2022), Second-Place Winner at the inaugural Juan Pons International Singing Competition (2022), Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition (2021), and a recent graduate of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera.
In the 24/25 season, Duke will debut at The Metropolitan Opera in The Magic Flute (Tamino) and LA Opera in Roméo et Juliette (Roméo). He will return to Irish National Opera for L’elisir d’amore (Nemorino) and Seattle Opera for Die Zauberflöte (Tamino), and make his mainstage debut at The Santa Fe Opera in Rigoletto (Duke). In concert, he will debut with Sag Harbor Song Festival and Handel and Haydn Society in the M. Haydn and Mozart Requiems, and return to Korean Music Association as a guest soloist in their annual concert. Future engagements include debuts with the Houston Grand Opera and The Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and a return to The Metropolitan Opera.
Last season, Duke made his debut with Irish National Opera and the Berkshire Opera Festival in Faust (title role), and with Pittsburgh Opera in La traviata (Alfredo). He also returned to Washington National Opera for his mainstage debut in Roméo et Juliette (Roméo), and performed with Seattle Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera in Il barbiere di Siviglia (Il Conte d’Almaviva). On the concert stage, he made his South American debut at Teatro Colón in Messiah, gave a solo recital at the Korean Music Association, and performed a duet recital with mezzo-soprano Taylor Raven at Seattle Opera.
Notable engagements include debuts with Seattle Opera in La traviata (Alfredo); The Glimmerglass Festival, Florentine Opera, and Opera San Antonio in Roméo et Juliette (Roméo); and The Atlanta Opera in Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio) with returns to Palm Beach Opera for Così fan tutte (Ferrando) and for The Merry Widow (Count Camille de Rosillon). On the concert stage he debuted with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in Messiah; the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Noseda in Messiah, Mozart Requiem and Eine kleine Freimaurer-Kantate, and Bach Magnificat; The Santa Fe Symphony for A Night at the Opera; and Grant Park Music Festival in Haydn Creation. In his second summer as an Apprentice Artist at The Santa Fe Opera, he was seen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander), covered in Eugene Onegin (Lenski), and appeared as a guest soloist on Angel Blue in Concert (Act IV duet from La bohème).
Duke has participated in artist training programs at The Santa Fe Opera, Académie du Festival Aix-en-Provence, Wolf Trap Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Aspen Festival, and Des Moines Metro Opera. He is a graduate of Chapman University and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he performed in Gianni Schicchi (Rinuccio), Little Women (Laurie), and La finta giardiniera (Count Belfiore). His additional concert repertoire includes Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël.
SEPTEMBER 2024
