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Colin Lee (born 22 February 1969) is a South African operatic tenor.

In 2014 Lee will become only the third South African tenor in history to have sung at all five major opera houses of the world (Royal Opera House, La Scala, The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris and Vienna State Opera).

Lee was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where he first qualified as a Chartered Accountant before moving to London, UK in 1993. He commenced private studies with the Welsh tenor Jeffrey Talbot before making his operatic debut in 2000.

Lee made his debut at ROH in 2005 as MARZIO in Mozart's Mitridate, Re di Ponto. However, his international breakthrough came in 2007 when he alternated with Juan Diego Florez in the role of TONIO in Laurent Pelly's new production of Donizetti's La fille du Regiment at ROH.

Major house engagements include:
 * 2005: Marzio (Mitridate, Re di Ponto) - ROH
 * 2007: Tonio (la fille du Regiment) - ROH
 * 2007: Leopold (La Juive) - Opera de Paris (Bastille)
 * 2008: Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) - Opera de Paris (Bastille)
 * 2009: Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) - Vienna State Opera
 * 2009: Argirio (Tancredi) - Theater an der Wien
 * 2009: Arturo (Lucia di Lammermoor) - Metropolitan Opera
 * 2010: Narciso (il Turco in Italia) - ROH
 * 2010: Rodrigo (La donna del lago) - Opera de Paris (Garnier)
 * 2010: Tonio (la fille du Regiment) - ROH
 * 2010: Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) - Berlin State Opera
 * 2011: Plateé (Plateé) - Nederlandse Opera
 * 2012: Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia) - Metropolitan Opera
 * 2012: Tonio (la fille du Regiment) - ROH
 * 2012: Tonio (la fille du Regiment) - Hamburg Opera
 * 2013: Elvino (La sonnambula) - Bolshoi Opera
 * 2013: Rodrigo (La donna del lago) - ROH
 * 2014: Le Comte Ory (Le Comte Ory) - La scala