Bio

Korean tenor Jonghyun Park recently completed two seasons as a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, where he performed the First Prisoner and covered Jaquino in Fidelio, and sang the Sergeant in Il barbiere di Siviglia. During his time with the program, he also covered Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette and made his Met debut as the First Guard in the holiday presentation of Die Zauberflöte.

In the 2025–26 season, he sang Ferrando in Così fan tutte at Opera San José, and made his Carnegie Hall debut in a solo recital with Gerald Martin Moore. He returned to the Metropolitan Opera to cover the Sailor’s Voice in Tristan und Isolde. He also sang the leading role of the Stranger in the world premiere of Sleepers Awake with Opera Philadelphia. This summer, he will perform the role of First Priest and First Armored Man in Die Zauberflöte at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and he will return to Opera San Josè to sing the role of Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni.
On the concert stage, he recently performed with Sumi Jo in her 40th anniversary concert and he will appear as the tenor soloist in Mozart’s Requiem at Alice Tully Hall with the New York Choral Society. Later this season, he will sing as the tenor soloist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

In summer 2025, he made his role debut as Ferrando in Così fan tutte under the direction of Renée Fleming, and appeared as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah under the baton of Dame Jane Glover at the Aspen Music Festival.

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.

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.