Hera Hyesang Park
About this Artist
Hailed by The New York Times for her “bright, clear voice and impressive coloratura technique,” Korean soprano Hera Hyesang Park is attracting the attention of opera houses and concert houses worldwide.
In the 2023/24 season, Hyesang returns to Opéra National de Paris for Despina in Cosí fan tutte and reprises the role of Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Seoul City Opera before returning to Korea National Opera for Violetta in La traviata. In concert, she sings Handel’s Messiah with the New York Philharmonic, makes her debut with London Philharmonic Orchestra in Mozart’s Great Mass in C with Edward Gardner, and gives solo recitals at Milton Court London, Stoller Hall Manchester, Wells Cathedral School, and across Mexico.
In recent seasons, Park has made a series of prestigious house and role debuts, including Adina in L’elisir d’amore at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin; Despina at the Bayerische Staatsoper; Rosina and Despina at Glyndebourne Festival; Musetta in La bohème at Komische Oper Berlin; Juliette in Roméo et Juliette at Korea National Opera; and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte at the Teatro Colón Buenos Aires. On the concert stage, some of Park’s notable appearances include performances of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem at Carnegie Hall; Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with Naples Philharmonic and San Diego Symphony; Galatea in Acis and Galatea at the Tanglewood and Caramoor festivals with Philharmonia Baroque; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Seoul Philharmonic, as well as recitals at Vocal Arts DC, Alice Tully Hall, Friends of Chamber Music Miami, Montreal’s Bourgie Hall, and Madrid’s Auditorio Nacional de Música.
As a participant of the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Lindemann Young Artist program, Park made her Met debut as the First Sprite in a new production of Rusalka conducted by Mark Elder. Park holds an Artist Diploma in Opera Studies from The Juilliard School and earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Seoul National University. She made her professional opera debut as Violetta with Korea National Opera.
Park’s honors and awards include first prize in the April 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 Plácido Domingo’s 2015 international Operalia competition, as well as First Prize in the women’s Zarzuela. Park is an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist. Her debut album, I Am Hera with the Wiener Symphoniker and Bertrand de Billy, was released in November 2020 to enormous critical acclaim.