La Traviata featuring Hye-Kyung Hong

Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 8:30PM

The Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center
(Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street, NYC)

Hye-Kyung Hong performs in La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera as Violetta, Verdi’s most engaging heroine. Thomas Hampson sings Germont and James Valenti makes his Met debut as Alfredo. Leonard Slatkin conducts.

Hong became the first Korean to win the Metropolitan Opera Competition in 1982. She then made her debut at the theater in 1984, playing Servilia in Mozart's La Clemenza di Tito. Hong starred in La Traviata production in 2007 with tenor Woo-Kyung Kim. The two became the first Koreans to play the leading roles in the same production at a Metropolitan opera.

Tickets are $27~$375. To purchase tickets, call 212-362-6000 or visit www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/