With a repertoire spanning French lyric, bel canto elegance, and classic Italian roles - and a growing roster of major house debuts, praised for his “splendid lyric tenor of volume and beauty, a totally secure top, with a plangent top C”, Long Long is rapidly earning a reputation for performances that blend lyrical beauty with emotional depth.
Current and upcoming engagements include his debut at The Metropolitan Opera as Rodolfo La bohème, which he will also reprise at Semperoper Dresden. He returns to the Bregenzer Festspiele and Atlanta Opera as Alfredo La traviata, and appears as Cassio Otello at the Bayerische Staatsoper. He also makes a house debut at the Staatsoper Berlin as Roméo Roméo et Juliette, sings Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Alfredo Germont La traviata at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and portrays Faust with the Canadian Opera Company.
Recent highlights include his Roméo at Dallas Opera, Gérald Lakmé at NCPA Beijing, and Tamino Die Zauberflöte at both The Royal Ballet and Opera and the Semperoper Dresden. He has also performed Rodolfo La bohème at Opéra National Montpellier, Staatsoper Hamburg, Atlanta Opera, and the Glyndebourne Festival, as well as Nadir Les pêcheurs de perles with Staatsoper Hannover. His Verdi roles include Alfredo La traviata at Ópera Nacional de Chile, Il Duca Rigoletto with Oper Frankfurt, Bregenzer Festspiele, and Prague National Theatre, and Don Ottavio Don Giovanni at the Dutch National Opera, the Israeli Opera, and the Komische Oper Berlin.
A graduate of the Bayerische Staatsoper Opera Studio, Long was also part of the Salzburger Festspiele Young Singers Project and the Georg Solti Academy. His competition accolades include third prize at the Francisco Viñas Singing Competition, five special prizes at the Moniuszko Vocal Competition, the Giovani Voci Verdiane Prize in Busseto, and Le Grand Prix de l’Opéra in Bucharest.