Shin Je Bang

Shin Je Bang came to opera from church music, which she read at Chongshin University in South Korea before vocal studies at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and the Accademia Teatro alla Scala, with further diplomas from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana and from Raina Kabaivanska's advanced course in Bulgaria. Her La Scala debut was Miss Baggott in Britten's The Little Sweep; Lucilla in La scala di seta and Tisbe in La Cenerentola followed on the same stage, and in 2017 she sang her first Azucena at the summer opera festival in Rapallo. Competition prizes include second at the Riccardo Zandonai and at Valsesia Musica in 2015. As a member of Kabaivanska's class she sang the solo in Beethoven's Mass in C with the orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and the alto part in Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle in Modena.