Julius Ahn

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Composer	Opera	Role
Beethoven	Fidelio	Jaquino
Bizet	Carmen	Remendado
Cavalli	Giasone	Demo
Corigliano	The Ghosts of Versailles	Begearss
Hoiby	Summer and Smoke	Roger Doremus
Humperdinck	Hansel und Gretel	The Witch
Lehar	The Merry Widow	Cascada, St. Brioche
Leoncavallo	I Pagliacci	Beppe, Arlecchino
Menotti	Amahl and the Night Visitors	Kaspar
Moussorgsky	Boris Godunov	Holy Fool (Simpleton)
Mozart	Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail	Pedrillo
	The Impresario	The Impresario
	Le Nozze di Figaro	Basilio, Curzio
	Die Zauberflote	Monostatos
Offenbach	Les Contes D’Hoffmann	Andres, Cochenille, Frantz, Pitichinaccio
	Orphee aux Enfers	Orphee, Mercure
Poulenc	Le Mamelles des Tiresias	Le Fils
Puccini	Madama Butterfly	Goro
	Tosca	Spoletta
	Turandot	Pang, Pong
Smetana	The Bartered Bride	Vasek
Strauss, J.	Die Fledermaus	Eisenstein
Strauss, R.	Ariadne auf Naxos	Tanzmeister, Brighella
	Der Rosenkavalier	Valzacchi, Italian Singer
	Salome	Herod, Jews
Stravinsky	The Rake’s Progress	Sellem
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin	Triquet
Ullmann	Der Kaiser von Atlantis	Harlequin, Soldier
Verdi	Rigoletto	Borsa
Wagner	Der Fliegende Hollander	Der Steuermann
	Die Meistersinger	David
	Ring Cycle	Mime, Loge

This versatile Korean-American tenor was most recently seen on stage making his highly acclaimed debuts as Goro in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with Palm Beach Opera and Pang in Puccini’s Turandot with Seattle Opera. Ahn then reprised the role of Goro last season with Opera Carolina and Nashville Opera, and was also recently engaged as Monastatos in The Magic Flute with both Opera Carolina and Opera Omaha, and performed Mark in Michael Tippett’s The Midsummer Marriage with Boston Modern Orchestra Project at Jordan Hall.

Next season, Julius joins the roster of the Metropolitan Opera for performances of The Nose and The Magic Flute. He also will perform the role of Pang in Turandot with Michigan Opera Theatre, and makes his Dallas Opera debut in 2014.

Ahn was participating artist with the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab 2011 at The Banff Centre, as well as with the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab 2012 at White Oak, cast in the lead role of Guang in Stuck Elevator by Byron Au Yong and Aaron Jafferis. He reprises the role with the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco in 2013.

Ahn’s recent engagements also include Basilio and Curzio in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the Lyric Opera Baltimore; Sellem in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress with Princeton Festival; Bégearss in Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles with Aspen Opera Theater Center; and Demo in Cavalli’s Giasone with Chicago Opera Theater.  He was also seen as Conrado in a workshop performance of Long Season by Chay Yew and Fabian Obispo, as part of Huntington Theatre Company’s Breaking Ground Festival.

Named as one of Boston Lyric Opera’s inaugural 2011-2012 Emerging Artists, this company favorite has also performed there as Ruffiano in John Musto’s The Inspector, Tanzmeister and Brighella in R. Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos, and Soldier in Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis. Ahn attended the New England Conservatory of Music, where he studied with the world-renown tenor Vinson Cole and performed a wide range of operatic roles.