Jonghyun Park

Korean tenor Jonghyun Park returns to the Met for his second year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, where he will sing the First Prisoner and cover Jaquino in Fidelio and sing the Sergeant in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Later in the 2024–25 season, he will sing the roles of the Shepherd and the Sailor in a concert production of Tristan und Isolde with The Philadelphia Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He made his Met debut last season as the First Guard in the beloved holiday presentation of The Magic Flute then covered the role of 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 performed as the tenor soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the New Choral Society, Handel's Messiah with the Brandford Chamber Orchestra, and Mozart's Requiem with the Waterbury Symphony. He was the recipient of the Fritz Wunderlich Award from the 2024 Opera Index Vocal Competition, second place winner of the New England District of the Met’s 2022 Laffont Competition, and third prize winner of the 2021 Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition, among others. He 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.