JongminPark
Contact
For availability and general enquiries:
Mark Hildrew
For availability and general enquiries:
Paul Meyer zu Schwabedissen
For contracts, logistics and press:
Seb Mallet
Representation
About Jongmin
In the 2024/25 season, Jongmin will make his debut at the prestigious Bayreuther Festspiele as Pogner in their new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He also returns 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 will tour 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.
Last season's operatic highlights included major role debuts as Il Grande Inquisitore in Don Carlo to open Teatro alla Scala's season in a star-studded cast led by Maestro Riccardo Chailly and Pogner in Laurent Pelly's new production of Die Meistersinger at Teatro Real Madrid. On the concert scene, Jongmin sang Wagner's Ring Cycle with Mupa Budapest and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at Tanglewood Festival.
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, Salzburger 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.
Representation
Season Highlights
Video
Jongmin Park sings Inquisitore at La Scala
Jongmin Park sings "Il Grand'Inquisitor!" from Verdi's Don Carlo at Teatro alla Scala, conducted by Riccardo Chailly Credit: The Star
PlayingJongmin Park sings Pogner in Madrid
Jongmin Park sings Pogner's aria "Das schöne Fest Johannistag" from Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Teatro Real Madrid in May 2024, conducted by Pablo Herras-Casado. New production by Laurent Pelly. Credit: The Star
PlayingJongmin Park sings Creon in Madrid
Jongmin Park singing Creon: "Ah! du moins à Médée accordez un asile" from Cherubini's Médée in October 2023 at Teatro Real Madrid, with Maria Agresta and conducted by Ivor Bolton. Credit: The Star
PlayingJongmin Park sings Vodnik at La Scala
Jongmin Park singing Vodnik's Aria "Běda! Běda! Ubohá Rusalko bledá" from Dvořák's Rusalka in June 2023 at Teatro alla Scala, conducted by Tomáš Hanus. Credit: The Star
PlayingJongmin Park sings King Marke in Nancy
Jongmin Park sings King Marke's aria "Tatest du's wirklich?" from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at Opera national de Lorraine in February 2023, conducted by Leo Hussain. Credit: The Star
PlayingJongmin Park sing Rossini in Seoul
Jongmin Park singing “La calunnia è un venticello” from Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, performed at the New Year’s Concert 2022 at the Seoul Arts Centre. Credit: Opera VVIP
Playing
Audio
- Tanglewood Festival: Beethoven Symphony no.9 in D-minor
Selected Repertoire
Beethoven | Fidelio (Rocco) |
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Bellini | Norma (Oroveso) • I puritani (Sir Giorgio) • La sonnambula (Count Rodolfo) |
Berlioz | Les Troyens (Narbal) |
Dvořák | Rusalka (Vodník) |
Gounod | Faust (Mephistopheles) • Romeo et Juliette (Fr. Laurent) |
Mozart | Cosi fan tutte (Don Alfonso) • Don Giovanni (Leporello) • Le nozze di Figaro (Figaro) |
Offenbach | Les contes d’Hoffmann (Lindorf, Coppelius, Miracle, Dapertutto) |
Ponchielli | La Gioconda (Alvise Badoero) |
Puccini | La bohème (Colline) • Turandot (Timur) |
Rossini | Il barbiere di Siviglia (Don Basilio) • La Cenerentola (Alidoro) |
Strauss | Elektra (Orest) |
Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin (Prince Gremin) |
Verdi | Aida (Ramfis) • Don Carlo (Filippo II) • La forza del destino (Padre Guardiano) • Macbeth (Banquo) • I Masnadieri (Massimiliano) • Otello (Ludovico) • Rigoletto (Sparafucile) • Simon Boccanegra (Fiesco) • Il trovatore (Ferrando) • I Vespri Siciliani (Giovanni da Procida) |
Wagner | Der fliegende Holländer (Daland) • Lohengrin (Heinrich der Vogler) • Parsifal (Gurnemanz) • Das Rheingold (Fasolt, Fafner) • Siegfried (Fafner) • Tannhauser (Hermann) • Tristan und Isolde (König Marke) • Die Walküre (Hunding) • Die Meistersinger (Pogner, Nightwatchman) |
News
Press
Verdi - Aida
Oper im SteinbruchJul 2024Besonders eindrucksvoll die „Radamès“-Rufe des ganz oben auf dem höchsten Punkt auftauchenden Oberpriesters Ramfis (Jongmin Park), wenn er den siegreichen Feldherrn verhört, der die Antwort auf alle Fragen verweigert und dann als Verräter zum Tod verurteilt wird.
- Manfred A. Schmid, Online Merker
- 10 July 2024
Jongmin Parks „Ramphis“ ist ein wahrer Ohrenschmaus
- Stefan Weinberger, Kronen Zietung
- 11 July 2024
Jongmin Park als Ramphis und Ivan Zinoviev als König geben ihren Partien ebenfalls jeweils die adäquate Statur.
- Ecki Ramón Weber, concerti
- 12 July 2024
Jongmin Park singt den Priester Ramfis mit edler, profunder Stimmfülle
- Dr. Helmut Christian Mayer, Opera Online
- 13 July 2024