Yeonji Lee

A Korean, “beautiful, stentorian soprano” Yeonji Lee reprised her signature role Setsuko Kobayashi in ‘An American Dream’ in Opera Idaho 2023 production. She portrayed the Japanese teenager who, along with her family, was sent to an incarceration camp during WWII. She is praised as the “Star of the show” and “She makes the most pivotal role of the Setsuko”(Seattle Times), when she made a Seattle Opera debut(2017) as Setsuko in An American Dream. She reprised her signature role Setsuko at Anchorage Opera(2019) and Virginia Opera(2019). Opera News hailed her for 'humorously and effectively evoked' Papagena at The Magic Flute production of Opera Maine. Yeonji’s other roles include Norina in Don Pasquale, Monica in Medium, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Vit