Hera Hyesang Park

In this Korean name, the family name is Park.

Hera Hyesang Park (Korean: 박혜상) (born October 15, 1988)^[1] is a South Korean soprano.

Hera Hyesang Park
Born	October 15, 1988 South Korea
Genres	Classical music, Opera
Occupation	Soprano
Website	herahyesangpark.com

Career

Hera Hyesang Park trained as a soprano at first Seoul National University in her native country and then at the Juilliard School in New York City in the United States. She graduated from the latter school in 2015 and that same year won second prize at the Operalia international opera competition. She was accepted into the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera ("the Met"), and made her debut at the Met as the First Wood Sprite in Dvořák's Rusalka in 2017. She returned to the Met stage in 2019 as Amore in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice.^[1] Her other repertoire at the Met includes Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro (2017), the Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel (2017–2018), Pamina in The Magic Flute (2021–2022),^[2] and Nannetta in Falstaff (2023).^[3]

During the 2017–2018 season, she made her opera debuts at the Bavarian State Opera.

In May 2020, she signed with Deutsche Grammophon.^[4]

Personal

She resides in New York City.^[5]

Awards

• 2016 Gerda Lissner Foundation International Competition, First Prize^[6]
• 2015 Montreal International Musical Competition, Second Prize^[7]
• 2015 Operalia, Second Prize^[7]