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Korean-American soprano Tiffany Choe was born and raised in Southern California and rejoins the Cafritz Young Artists for her second season. This season, she will perform as Marzelline in Fidelio.  She will also participate in this year's AOI 20 program as Poly 1 in Mud Girl. Last season at WNO she was seen as Juliet in the YA production of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. A 2022-23 Arizona Opera Pullin Studio Artist, she sang the role of Pamina in The Magic Flute as well as the roles of Najad (Ariadne auf Naxos) and Sister Margaretta (The Sound of Music). Choe has also performed with Indiana University Opera Theater, singing the roles of  Mimì (La bohème) and Magda (La rondine). Having sung eleven productions with IU, her other roles include Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, Constance in Dialogues des Carmélites, Rosalia in West Side Story, and Laoula in L’Étoile. A previous Steans Music Institute Fellow, she returned to Ravinia in the summer of 2023 as First Lady in Die Zauberflöte. In recital, she has been the soprano soloist for the Messiah with the Phoenix Symphony and Poulenc’s Gloria with the IU Philharmonic. She has earned several awards from the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, including Encouragement Awards in 2024, 2021, and 2019, and an Indianapolis District Win in 2020.