Yeongtaek Yang

Korean baritone Yeongtaek Yang returns to the Met for his second year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. During the Met’s 2025–26 season, he will cover Ping in Turandot and Roucher in Andrea Chénier and sing Morales in Carmen and Yamadori in Madama Butterfly. He made his Met debut last season as Marullo in Rigoletto before appearing as the Second Nazarene in the company’s new, critically acclaimed production Salome. Recent operatic engagements include covering both Giorgio Germont in La Traviata and the title role of Don Giovanni at Santa Fe Opera, the title role of Gianni Schicchi at the Chautauqua Institution, the Forester in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Des Grieux in Massenet’s Le Portrait de Manon at the Manhattan School of Music, and Don Giovanni at the National Seoul University in South Korea. He has received high marks from many international vocal competitions including first place in the 2022 Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition, first place in the Manhattan School of Music’s 2024 Alan M. and Joan Taub Ades Vocal Competition, first prize in the 2024 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Vocal Competition (Opera Division), and second prize at the 2024 Loren L. Zachary National Vocal Competition. He is an alumnus of the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Artist Program and Chautauqua Institution and holds degrees in voice from Seoul National University and the Manhattan School of Music.