Metropolitan Opera rising stars Leah Hawkins, Mario Bahg and Joseph Lim perform a program of favorite opera arias and duets. About The Performers Tenor Mario Bahg is the winner of first prize and opera aria award in the aria division at the 2018 Montreal International Music Competition and first prize at the 2017 Queen Sonja International Music Competition. Other notable recognitions include first prize at the 2016 Citta di Alcamo Competition (Italy), second prize at the 8th DEBUT European Opera Singing Competition (Germany)He has appeared as a soloist in Haydn's Die Schopfung and Christmas Oratorio at Mainfranken Theater Wurzburg and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at Konzerthaus Berlin. Soprano Leah Hawkins has appeared with Yale Philharmonia in Mahler Symphony No. 2, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven Symphony No. 9, the National Symphony Orchestra in Songfest by Leonard Bernstein, the Philadelphia Orchestra in A Space Odyssey, and as Serena in Porgy and Bess with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Recent engagements of baritone Joseph Lim have included a solo recital accompanied by Brian Zeger at Weill Recital Hall with the Carnegie Hall Foundation and made a debut with Opera Roanoke as Papageno in Magic Flute and covered the role of Dr. Malatesta in Don Pasquale at The Santa Fe Opera. Pianist Dimitri Dover has performed as recitalist and chamber musician in venues such as New York's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and Park Avenue Armory, as well as Zipper Hall (Los Angeles), Segerstrom Hall (Orange County) and throughout the USA, Canada, and Austria.
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