Hyun-Jong Roh

Hyun-Jong Roh Tenor

Season 24/25 Artist – Season 25/26 Artist – Chorus of the Opera

Biography

Member of the Chorus of the Paris Opera

A graduate of Hansei University in Korea, Hyun-Jong Roh pursued his musical studies at the Conservatorio di Parma in Italy with Juliano Ciannella and Lellio Capilupi. In France, he studied at the Conservatoire de Boulogne-Billancourt, where he earned a unanimous First Prize in vocal performance in the class of Liliane Mazeron. He is a prizewinner of several international singing competitions, including Minerbio in Bologna, Umberto Sacchetti, Mantua, Rhodes, Riccardo Zandonai, Marmande, and others.

He has given numerous recitals in Korea, France, and Italy. In concert, he has performed as the tenor soloist in Franz Liszt’s Gaudeamus Igitur Mass at Parma Cathedral and was invited as tenor soloist at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris for Le Mystère de la conversion de Paul Claudel by composer François Narboni. On stage, he has sung the roles of Don José (Carmen), Alfredo (La Traviata), Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca), the Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto), Rodolfo (La Bohème), and Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola) in cities such as Clermont-Ferrand, Compiègne, Narbonne, Cannes, Béziers, Albi, Saint-Maur, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Parma, and Saint Petersburg. He was invited to portray Don José in a documentary by Teresa Berganza broadcast on Mezzo TV.

At the Paris Opera: Il Tabarro (Venditore di canzonetta), 2010; Lohengrin (a Brabant nobleman), 2017; La Traviata (Giuseppe), 2019, 2024; Don Carlo (a herald), 2020; Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Nathanaël), 2020; Turandot (Prince of Persia), 2023; Don Carlos (a royal herald), 2017, 2025.

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