Chen-Ye Yuan

Country

China

Baritone

Biography

A baritone, First Prize winner at the X International Tchaikovsky Competition (1994). Graduated from the Central Conservatory in Beijing in 1990, and made his début at the National Opera of Beijing the same year. In 1998 he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. In 2014 he sang the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, the first joint performance by the Mariinsky Theatre and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing (music director Valery Gergiev).

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