Born in Korea in 1990, Isabella Lee graduated with honors at the Kyoungpook National University. After that she moved to Italy, where she graduated in singing at the conservatory Giuseppe Nicolini in Piacenza. 

Ms. Lee is winner of prestigious lyric international competitions: first prize at the International Singing Competition “Gianni Poggi” competition (2014); first prize at the International Singing Competition “Magda Olivero” (2016) in Milan; winner of the Voci Verdiane International Competition in Busseto (2017); nominee as Young Singer at the International Opera Awards (2018).

She made her debut in 2011 starring as Mimì in La Bohème in Korea (Kyoungpook).

More recently Ms. Lee performed as Adina in L’Elisir d’amore in Lugano and on tour in Switzerland, and, as winner of the Voci Verdiane International Singing Competition, she has just made her debut as Violetta in a new production of the Teatro Verdi in Parma of La Traviata staged at the Teatro Verdi in Busseto in the frame of the Festival Verdi in Parma 2017. The production toured in Bolzano and Trento. 

Ms. Lee was also chosen by Mika, musician, singer, showman and songwriter, and by the director Damiano Michieletto to star as Cio Cio San in Madama Butterfly for the Italian television program “StaseraCasaMika”, winner of the Rose d’Or Eurovision Entertainment Award as best European tv program in 2016. 

Most recently she sang Cinzia in Legrenzi's La divisione del mondo at the Operhaus in Kiel and she has just made her debut as Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera  for the opening night of the season at the Teatro Regio in Parma.

January 2019