Tae-Hwan Yun

Korean tenor Tae Hwan Yun received his musical training at the University of Suwon and at the Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts. As a highly successful competition participant, he won prizes at the International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition in Vienna, was a finalist in the 2020 SWR Young Opera Stars – Emmerich Smola Scholarship, and won first prize at the “Das Lied” competition in Heidelberg in 2023.

After gaining his first stage experience as Nemorino in “L’elisir d’amore” in South Korea, Tae Hwan Yun was a member of the opera studio at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern from 2018 to 2020, where he appeared, among other roles, as Belmonte in the children’s version of “Die Entführung aus dem Serail” and as Iskra in “Mazeppa.” In 2021–22, he made guest appearances as Lord Cecil in “Roberto Devereux” at the Theater Passau and as Don Riccardo in “Ernani” as well as the First Mandarin in Clemens von Frankenstein’s opera “LI-TAI-PE” at the Bonn Opera. At the Eutin Festival, he appeared as Goro in “Madama Butterfly.”

Since the 22/23 season, Tae Hwan Yun has been a member of the Bonn Opera ensemble. His repertoire there includes roles such as Lenzmar in “Der singende Teufel,” Pedrillo in “Die Entführung aus dem Serail,” the Youth and the Naked Youth in “Moses und Aron,” Truffaldino in “Die Liebe zu den drei Orangen,” Goro in “Madama Butterfly,” the Appearance of a Youth in “The Woman Without a Shadow,” Mastro Trabuco in “La forza del destino,” Balthasar Zorn in “Die Meistersinger in Nürnberg,” as well as Monostatos and Tamino in “The Magic Flute.”
In 2023, the tenor made his debut as the Maggiordomo and Abbate di Chazeuil in “Adriana Lecouvreur” at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and has since appeared there as Monostatos in “The Magic Flute” and Balthasar Zorn in “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.” In the summer of 2024, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival as the nervous gambler in Prokofiev’s “The Gambler.” He also made his debut as a tenor in “The Book with Seven Seals” under Fabio Luisi with the Spanish National Orchestra at the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid.
In addition to his busy opera schedule, he devotes particular attention to the German art song, and has recently appeared in recitals at the Würzburg Song Festival and the Heidelberg Spring Festival. In October 2024, he was a guest at the Oxford International Song Festival.