Chinese bass-baritone Le Bu is a 2024 Operalia First Prize winner, a 2022 Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition and an alumnus of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
This season Le Bu makes several important company debuts: first at the Washington National Opera for his first Figaro in Le Nozze di Figaro, then at the Berlin Philharmonic and the Salzburg Easter Festival as both Fasolt in Das Rheingold and the Bass Solo in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, both under Kirill Petrenko. He will also debut as Gunther in Götterdämmerung with the Atlanta Opera. Le Bu also returns to the Metropolitan Opera as the Speaker in holiday presentations of The Magic Flute and as the Mandarin in Turandot, as well as to the Santa Fe Opera as the Bonze in Madama Butterfly and the Speaker in Die Zauberflöte. He will also appear in recital with the Sag Harbor Song Festival and in Washington DC. Future engagements include debuts with the Opéra National de Paris, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Royal Ballet and Opera as well as returns to the Metropolitan Opera.
Last season, Le Bu returned to the Metropolitan Opera as the Speaker in The Magic Flute, Angelotti in Tosca, the First Nazarene in Salome while also covering Ferrando in Il Trovatore, Queequeg in Moby Dick and Colline in La Bohème. In the summer he returned to the Santa Fe Opera as Monterone in Rigoletto and covered Hunding in Die Walküre.