Le Bu

Chinese bass-baritone Le Bu, a First Prize winner of Operalia in 2024, a 2022 Grand Finals Winner of the Metropolitan Opera’s Laffont Competition and a recent alumnus of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, is fast becoming a major rising star in opera and in concert. 

This season, Le Bu returns to the Metropolitan Opera in a number of roles: he sings the Speaker in the holiday presentation of The Magic Flute and the First Nazarene in Salome and covers Ferrando in Il Trovatore, Angelotti in Tosca, Queequeg in Moby Dick and Colline in La Bohème.  In the summer he returns to The Santa Fe Opera as Monterone in Rigoletto and covering Hunding in Die Walküre.  Future engagements include returns to the Met, the Washington National Opera and The Santa Fe Opera and debuts with the Salzburg Easter Festival, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Opéra National de Paris.

During the 2023–24 season, his Metropolitan assignments included the High Priest of Baal in Nabucco, Biterolf in Tannhäuser and the Mandarin in Turandot. He made his Met debut the previous season as a Flemish Deputy in Don Carlo and appeared as the Second Guard in Julie Taymor’s holiday production of The Magic Flute.  He repeated the role of the Mandarin in Turandot with the Washington National Opera and appeared as Colline in La Bohème and as the French General in Silent Night at Wolf Trap.