South Korean bass Jongmin Park has distinguished himself as one of the the most outstanding operatic singers of his generation.
He was born in Seoul and studied singing at the Korea National University of Arts. As alumnus of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, he was taught by Mirella Freni, Luciana Serra, Luigi Alva and Renato Bruson. From 2010 to 2013 he was a member of Ensemble at the Hamburg State Opera, Germany.
From 2013 to 2020 he was a member of Ensemble at the Vienna State Opera, Austria with whom he sang a number of leading roles such as the title role of »Le nozze di Figaro«, Leporello (»Don Giovanni«), Sarastro (»Die Zauberflöte«), Ramfis (»Aida«), Banco (»Macbeth«), Ferrando (»Il Trovatore«), Sparafucile (»Rigoletto«), Sir Giorgio (»I Puritani«), Raimondo (»Lucia di Lammermoor«), Don Basilio (»Il barbiere di Siviglia«), Colline (»La Bohème«), Vodnik (»Rusalka«), Fasolt (»Das Rheingold«), Hunding (»Die Walküre«).
Since the 2020/21 season he has been a guest singer at major houses and festivals around the world. He performs at the Metropolitan Opera House, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real in Madrid, Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, Salzburg Festival, Arena di Verona, Savonlinna Opera Festival, BBC Proms, Vienna Musikverein, Wigmore Hall in London, NHK Hall and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He works with conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Valery Gergiev, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Ádám Fischer, Franz Welser-Möst, Jiří Bělohlávek, Myung-whun Chung, Peter Schneider, Simone Young and Marco Armiliato.
Jongmin Park won first prize at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, the Birgit Nilsson Award for Wagner and Strauss roles at the 2011 Operalia Competition and the Song Prize at the 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Future engagements include appearances at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at the Opera National de Lorraine in Nancy.
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