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 Duca (La bohème), which he will also reprise at Semperoper Dresden. He returns to the Bregenzer Festspiele and Atlanta Opera as Alfredo (La traviata), to the Palm Beach Opera as Nadir (Les pêcheurs de perles), 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 Semperoper Dresden. He has performed Duca (La bohème) at Opéra National Montpellier, Staatsoper Hamburg, Atlanta Opera, and 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 Long was also part of the Salzburger Festspiele Young Singers Project and the Georg Solti Academy. His competition accolades include First Prize at the renowned Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition, 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.