Soprano

Hera Hyesang Park

Years on Faculty: 
2026
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Hera Hyesang Park is an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon recording artist working with orchestras and opera houses worldwide. The Korean soprano has made house and role debuts as Adina in Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love (at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin), Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte (Bavarian Staatsoper and Glyndebourne Festival), Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème (Komische Oper), Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Julliette (Korean National Opera), and Pamina in Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Teatro Colón Buenos Aires). Her concert appearances have included Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem at Carnegie Hall, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the Naples Philharmonic and San Diego Symphony, Handel’s Acis and Galatea at Tanglewood and Caramoor with Philharmonia Baroque, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Seoul Philharmonic, and 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 in The Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist program, Park made her Met debut as the First Sprite in a new production of Dvořák’s Rusalka conducted by Mark Elder. She sang Barbarina in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Dew Fairy in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and has since returned as Pamina, Amore in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and Nanetta in Verdi’s Falstaff.