Jongmin Park
Nabucco / Zaccaria
South Korean bass Jongmin Park was born in Seoul and studied singing at the Korean National University of Arts. As a member of the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, he was taught by Mirella Freni, Luciana Serra, Luigi Alva and Renato Bruson. Park was the winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Song Prize in 2015 and was a member of the prestigious ensemble at Wiener Staatsoper from 2013 until 2019. In the 2025/26 season, Jongmin returns to the Metropolitan Opera for Colline La bohème and Berlin Staatsoper for
Colline and Don Basilio Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
He also returns to Teatro alla Scala for Fasolt Das Rheingold, Teatro Real Madrid for Il Cieco Iris and Opéra National de Lorraine for a staged version of Verdi’s Requiem.
On the concert scene, he makes his Maggio Musicale debut in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis led by Zubin Mehta and Ninth Symphony with Daniele Gatti and sings Stravinsky’s Pulcinella
with the Czech Philharmonic and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig,
conducted by Semyon Bychkov. He sings Vodnik Rusalka with Domingo Hindoyan and the Liverpool Philharmonic, Hunding Die Walküre with David Afkham and Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España and Beethoven’s Ninth with Gustavo Gimeno and the Toronto Symphony.
biography
Jongmin Park | Bass
A highlight of last season was Jongmin’s debut at the prestigious Bayreuther Festspiele as Pogner in their new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He also returned to the Metropolitan Opera for Colline in La bohème, Teatro alla Scala for Fasolt in Das Rheingold, Berlin Staatsoper for Vodnik in Rusalka and Don Basilio in
Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Seoul Arts Center for Enrico in Anna Bolena.
On the concert scene he toured with the Kammerakademie
Potsdam, singing the roles of Cuno and Hermit in Die Freischütz
at the Nikolaisaal Potsdam, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Berlin Philharmonie.
He has performed on the stages of The Metropolitan Opera New York, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, ROH Covent Garden, Teatro Real Madrid, Berlin Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hamburg, Opéra de Rouen, Opéra national de Lorraine, Bergen National Opera, Salzbu rger Sommer – and Osterfestspiele, Arena di Verona, Savonlinna Festival, Steinbruch St. Margarethen.
On the concert platform, Jongmin has appeared at the BBC Proms, at the Wiener Konzerthaus, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall; he has performed solo recitals in Munich and Frankfurt, as well as the Musikverein in Vienna and Wigmore Hall. In addition to the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2015, other prizes and competitions he has won include the International Tchaikovsky Competition, and the Birgit Nilsson Wagner – Award at Operalia.
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