Dong-Won Seo

Bass

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Born in South Korea, bass Dong-Won Seo has a large, warm voice that shines especially in the German part in the great roles of Wagner, Strauss, Weber, Beethoven and Mozart. He studied voice at Hanyang University and at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf with Prof. Michail Lanskoi before becoming a member of the opera studio at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar in 2007/08. He attended various master classes and won several prizes at singing competitions. From 2008 to 2017, Dong-Won Seo was a permanent ensemble member at the Musiktheater im Revier, where his roles included King (Aida), Osmin (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Sarastro (Die Zauberflöte), the title role in Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele, Colline (La Bohème), Aquarius (Rusalka), Philip II. and Monk (Don Carlo), Sancho Panza (Don Quixote), Ghost Messenger (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Crespel and Luther (The Tales of Hoffmann), and King Marke in Tristan und Isolde. Guest engagements have taken him to the Staatstheater Mainz, the Theater Dortmund, and the Aalto-Theater Essen, among others. In the 2018/19 season, Dong-Won Seo was an ensemble member of the Hagen Theater. In the 2019/20 season, he was a permanent ensemble member at the Staatstheater Darmstadt and was heard as Sarastro (Magic Flute), Rocco (Fidelio), as Father Maik (Tschick) and as Heinrich der Vogler (Lohengrin), among others. In the 2021/22 season he sang Gurnemanz in Wagner’s “Parsifal” and Bluebeard in Bartók’s “Duke Bluebeard” at the Stadttheater Hagen.