Sejong Chang

bass

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Biography

South Korean bass Sejong Chang completed his vocal studies at Hanyang University in Seoul and at University of Music in Cologne. He performed his first roles Figaro Le nozze di Figaro, Don Alfonso and Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte as well as Sarastro Die Zauberflöte in South Korea. 2011/2012 he was a member of the opera studio at Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, where his roles included Marchese d’Obigny La Traviata, Heger Rusalka, Mariano D`Albino in Trojahn’s La grande magia and Mordred in Albéniz’ Merlin.

In 2012 Sejong Chang joined the ensemble at Oper Leipzig, where he has sung roles such as Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro, Leporello Don Giovanni, Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore, Alidoro La Cenerentola, Don Basilio Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor, Sarastro Die Zauberflöte, Jake Wallace La fanciulla del West, Colline La Bohème, Mandarin Turandot, Zuniga Carmen, Grenvil La Traviata, Un Frate Don Carlo, Il gran Sacerdote Nabucco, Háraschta Das schlaue Füchslein, Joe Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Tobias Undine, David Riccio in Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots, Vagtmesteren Maskerade, Polizeikommissar Der Rosenkavalier, 5. Jude Salome, Bass Johannespassion, Hans Foltz, Ein Nachtwächter Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Der Feenkönig Die Feen, Kardinal Orvieto Rienzi, Reinmar von Zweter Tannhäuser as well as Danieli Das Liebesverbot in cooperation with Bayreuther Festspielen/BF Medien.

As a guest Sejong Chang has appeared as Zweiter Soldat Salome at La Scala in Milan, as Dulcamara at Nationaltheater Mannheim, as Gran Sacerdote and Grenvil at Semperoper Dresden, as Figaro at Theater Chemnitz and Teatro comunale di Bolzano, as Alidoro at Theater Chemnitz, as Feenkönig at Theater Regensburg, as Masetto in Solingen and Remscheid, as Cold Genius in Purcell’s King Arthur at Theater Aachen and as Reinmar at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2019. His concert performances include Beethoven’s 9th Symphony (at Beethovenhalle in Bonn), Bach’s Johannespassion, Händel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Schubert’s Mass in G major, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, Berlioz’ L'enfance du Christ and Dvorák’s Stabat Mater (at Cologne Philharmony). He performed his first Schubert's Winterreise at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul in 2019.


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