South Korean baritone Kim Tae-han won the Queen Elizabeth Competition for voice, becoming the first Asian male singer to win the coveted classical music contest in Belgium.
The 22 year-old Kim is the third South Korean singer to win the top prize after sopranos Hong Hae-ran in 2011 and Hwang Sumi in 2014.
The Queen Elizabeth Competition, named after the late Belgian Queen, was founded in 1937, and is one of three prestigious contests for classical musicians, along with the Chopin Piano Competition and the Tchaikovsky Competition.
Baritone is a kind of masculine singing sound, and it is a low layer in the sound layers, and is considered an important layer in operatic singing, where special roles are given in Western singing plays, and one of the most famous stage roles is Mozart.
Source: Qatar News Agency