Jonghyun Park

Korean tenor Jonghyun Park returns to the Metropolitan Opera for his second season in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program during the 2024–25 season, where he will sing the First Prisoner in Fidelio, cover Jaquino, and appear as the Sergeant in Il barbiere di Siviglia. Later in the season, he will perform the roles of the Shepherd and the Sailor in a concert production of Tristan und Isolde with The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

He made his Met debut last season as the First Guard in the popular holiday presentation of The Magic Flute and also covered Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette. Recent operatic engagements include Fenton in Falstaff at Opera San José, covering Fenton at Palm Beach Opera, covering Tamino in Die Zauberflöte as part of the Merola Opera Program’s Schwabacher Summer Concert Series, and Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with *Yale Opera. On the concert stage, he has appeared as tenor soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Messiah, and Mozart’s Requiem. His awards include the Fritz Wunderlich Award at the 2024 Opera Index Vocal Competition, Second Prize at the 2022 New England District of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, and Third Prize at the 2021 Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition. Jonghyun Park is an alumnus of the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera and the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and holds degrees in voice from Seoul National University and Yale University.