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- ↑ "Il Trovatore: "Ah! sì, ben mio" (Yonghoon Lee) at the Metropolitan Opera" . Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ↑ "Yonghoon Lee sings "Nessun dorma" from TURANDOT at Bayerische Staatsoper" . Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ↑ "Yonghoon Lee - Nessun Dorma from Turandot at the Chicago Symphony Orchesra Hall" . Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ↑ "Andrea Chénier Moving Moment #1 - with Yonghoon Lee as Chénier - Fall 2016 at the San Francisco Opera" . Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ↑ "OA EXCERPTS: Yonghoon Lee performs 'E Lucevan Le Stelle' from Puccini's Tosca at Opera Australia" . Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ↑ Pillans, Tom (July 9, 2013). "Yonghoon Lee a powerful tenor in Sydney Opera House's Tosca". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- 1 2 "Yonghoon Lee". The Royal Opera House. Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
- ↑ Tommasini, Anthony (20 December 2010). "A South Korean Tenor Makes His Mark at the Met, With La Scala Next". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 December 2014.