▲ This photo, provided by MAGE Production, shows the poster for the upcoming '3 Counter-tenors Concert' in Seoul. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Yonhap) -- Orchestre de I’Opera Royal Versailles, also known as the Royal Opera of Versailles which regularly performs as a part of the Chateau de Versailles Spectacles at the Royal Opera Theater in France’s Palace of Versailles, will hold its first concert in South Korea.

The time-honored orchestra will hold its concert, titled “3 Counter-tenors Concert,” at Lotte Concert Hall in Songpa-gu, Seoul, on Feb. 19, the performance agency MAGE Production announced Thursday. The orchestra will be meeting their Korean audiences even earlier in Gunpo – a city in Gyeonggi Province – on Feb. 16 and Andong – a city in North Gyeongsang Province – on the 17th.

The Royal Opera Theater of Versailles was built in 1685 for the French royal family; the Orchestra has been performing since 1770 and touts a long tradition of 253 years as the exclusive orchestra of the Theater.

Stefan Plewniak will be conducting the three countertenors, which refers to the male vocalists who can also sing in female vocal range, who will be taking the stage together to demonstrate the epitome of a Baroque opera.

Simon Chung, the winner of the Tenor Vinas Contest at the Vinas International Singing Competition held in Spain, will be singing along with Samuel Marino from Venezuela and Hugh Cutting from England. The three countertenors will sing opera songs of the representative Baroque composers such as Handel, Vivaldi, and Porpora.

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Ha eun Lee)

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