Visiting Guest Artist

Duke Kim is the Second Prize Winner of both Operalia (2022) and the inaugural Juan Pons International Singing Competition (2022), as well as a Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition (2021). He is an alumnus of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at Washington National Opera.

In the 2025 – 26 season, Duke returns to Los Angeles Opera as Tony in West Side Story and to Houston Grand Opera for a new production of Silent Night (Nikolaus Sprink). He also makes five major European house debuts: as Roméo in Roméo et Juliette at both Dresden Semperoper and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma; as Gennaro in Lucrezia Borgia at Teatro de la Maestranza; and as Alfredo Germont in La traviata at Teatr Wielki, Polish National Opera. He will conclude the season at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. In concert, he performs the role of Duca di Mantova in a staged concert of Rigoletto at the Philharmonie de Paris with Le Cercle de l’Harmonie under Jérémie Rhorer and appears as Nadir in a staged concert of Les pêcheursde perles with Washington Concert Opera.

Recent highlights include his Metropolitan Opera debut as Tamino in The Magic Flute, his Los Angeles Opera debut as Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, and his role debut as the Duke in Rigoletto at Santa Fe Opera. He has also appeared as Tamino at Seattle Opera and as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with Irish National Opera.

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