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2018 Awardee: Hyesang Park
"HYESANG PARK is a born performer."
- Opera News
Hera Hyesang Park (Soprano), from South Korea, will sing the roles of Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro and the Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel in the Met’s 2017-18 season. She made her Met debut this past season as the First Wood Nymph in Mary Zimmerman’s new production of Dvořák’s Rusalka.
This summer, she performs Najade in Ariadne auf Naxos at Glyndebourne Festival and debuts at Bayerische Staatsoper as Despina in Così fan tutte. Last season, in her native South Korea, she performed a concert with Plácido Domingo and the role of Juliette in Roméo and Juliette. Previously, she sang Amina in the MET+Juilliard production of La Sonnambula and Fiorilla in Juilliard Opera’s production of Il Turco in Italia.
She made her professional opera debut as Violetta in Korea National Opera’s production of La Traviata in 2009.
She won first prize in the 2016 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Competition, second prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 2015 Montreal International Musical Competition and second place in the women’s division in Placido Domingo’s 2015 International Operalia competition, as well as first prize in the women’s Zarzuela.
She has attended the Georg Solti Accademia in Italy and the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, conducted by Sir Richard Bonynge. She has also sung at Carnegie Hall as part of The Song Continues in master classes with Marilyn Horne and Anne Sofie von Otter. She made her debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich in 2016 as Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte.
Ms. Park received her master’s degree and the Advanced Diploma of Opera Studies from The Juilliard School, joined the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artists Program and is recipient of the 2018 Hildegard Behrens Award.
