Tenor Duke Kim is rapidly establishing an international career in opera and concert, with recent appearances at The Metropolitan Opera, LA Opera, Semperoper Dresden, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, The Santa Fe Opera, and Seattle Opera. His honors include second prizes at Operalia and the Juan Pons International Singing Competition, recognition as a Grand Finals Winner of The Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition, and the 2026 Eva and Marc Stern Artist Award from LA Opera.
In 26/27, Kim returns to The Metropolitan Opera for Così fan tutte (Ferrando) and LA Opera for the title role in Candide. He also returns to Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera for Rigoletto (Duke of Mantua) and makes debuts with Opéra National de Lyon in Lucrezia Borgia (Gennaro) and Canadian Opera Company in L’elisir d’amore (Nemorino).
Last season, Kim returned to LA Opera for West Side Story (Tony) and made European debuts at Semperoper Dresden and Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in Roméo et Juliette (Roméo), Teatro de la Maestranza in Lucrezia Borgia (Gennaro), and Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in La traviata (Alfredo). He concluded the season with appearances at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in Romeo Castellucci’s staged production of Mozart’s Requiem conducted by Raphaël Pichon and with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Mozart’s Requiem conducted by Jérémie Rhorer.
In 24/25, Kim made his Metropolitan Opera debut in The Magic Flute (Tamino) and LA Opera debut in Roméo et Juliette (Roméo). He returned to Irish National Opera for L’elisir d’amore (Nemorino) and Seattle Opera for Die Zauberflöte (Tamino) and made his mainstage debut at The Santa Fe Opera in Rigoletto (Duke of Mantua). On the concert stage, he appeared at the Sag Harbor Song Festival, debuted with the Handel and Haydn Society in Michael Haydn’s and Mozart’s Requiems, and returned to the Korean Music Association as a guest soloist.
Additional operatic highlights include Faust (title role) with Irish National Opera and Berkshire Opera Festival, La traviata (Alfredo) with Pittsburgh Opera and Seattle Opera, Roméo et Juliette (Roméo) with Washington National Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Florentine Opera, and Opera San Antonio, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Il Conte d’Almaviva) with Seattle Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera, and Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio) with The Atlanta Opera. He has also appeared with Palm Beach Opera in Così fan tutte (Ferrando) and The Merry Widow (Count Camille de Rosillon).
A graduate of Washington National Opera’s Cafritz Young Artist Program, Kim made his company mainstage debut in Roméo et Juliette (Roméo). He also spent two summers as an Apprentice Artist at The Santa Fe Opera, where his assignments included A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander) and Eugene Onegin (Lenski cover), and he appeared alongside Angel Blue in concert in a duet from La bohème.
On the concert stage, Kim has appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda in Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Eine kleine Freimaurer-Kantate, and Bach’s Magnificat. His concert engagements also include Messiah at Teatro Colón and with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Haydn’s The Creation at the Grant Park Music Festival, and appearances with The Santa Fe Symphony. As a recitalist, he has performed for the Korean Music Association and appeared in a duet recital with mezzo-soprano Taylor Raven at Seattle Opera.
Kim is a graduate of Chapman University and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.
2026-2027
