South Korean tenor Ji-Min Park studied at the Seoul National University, South Korea with Professor Philip Kang, and at the Vienna Conservatory, Austria with Professor Carolyn Hague. In 2007 he joined the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and became a Principal Young Artist in the 2009-10 season.
In the 2023/24 season he makes his Scottish Opera debut as Alfredo in La Traviata.
Recent operatic highlights include Rodolfo La bohème (Cincinnati Opera, Opera Australia, Royal Opera House, Vancouver Opera and Opera North); Ernesto Don Pasquale (Opera Australia, Fort Worth Opera, Atlanta Opera and Opéra de Baugé); his role debut as Énée Les Troyens (Theater Kiel); Alfredo La traviata (Opera Australia, Cincinnati Opera, Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera and Opera North); Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi (Royal Opera House); and Edgardo Lucia di Lammermoor, Roméo Roméo et Juliette, Don José Carmen and Ferrando Così fan tutte (Opéra de Baugé).
His concert highlights include Verdi’s Requiem (Estonian National Symphony Orchestra); Gennaro Lucrezia Borgia (Moscow State Philharmonic Society); a televised opera gala concert in Korea; and recitals at La Scala, La Fenice and the Royal Opera House.
Park won First Prize at the 5th Klaudia Taev International Estonian Music Competition, the Vienna Staatsoper Special Prize at the International Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna (2004), First Prize at the 7th
International Bidu Sayao Competition in Belem, was a finalist in the International Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona (2006) and won third prize at the International Singing Competition in Toulouse (2008). He also represented Korea in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition 2009.
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Alfredo, La Traviata
Scottish Opera, May 2024
Making his Scottish Opera debut, Ji-Min Park was a well-matched Alfredo, joyous in the brindisi, lovesick and angry later, his tenor tender and sweet, but able to turn on the power thrillingly.
David Smythe, Bachtrack ★★★★
Park is equally impressive, portraying a diffident young man in the opening scenes, who comes into his own as he first declares a toast to Violetta. But it is in Act II that he excels, first alone on stage with his sleeping lover, embodying Alfredo’s enrapture for her, and then in his fury when he receives the letter cutting him off.
Thom Dibdin, The Stage ★★★★
Ji-Min Park has an ardent tenor voice, but he sings Alfredo with power and little else, taking until the final act to find the lyricism in the love music.
Simon Thompson, The Times ★★★
La Traviata (Alfredo)
Opera Australia, October 2022
“Korean tenor Ji-Min Park sang the role of the love-struck Alfredo Germont with warm, rounded tones.”
Dr Diana Carroll, ArtsHub Australia ★★★★★
Les Troyens (Aeneas)
Theater Kiel, March 2020
“Ji-Min Park, as Aeneas, has a powerful tenor with a secure high register.”
“In Aeneas’s great aria in the fifth act, Park’s singing brought spontaneous applause from the audience. Aeneas's inner struggle was not only vocally shaped by Park with brilliant heights and almost without forcing, but also the scenic realisation in front of the iron curtain was impressive.”
“Another musical highlight is the great duet "Nuit d'ivresse" at the end of the fourth act, in which Hauzer and Park find a beguiling intimacy both vocally and dramatically. Even the preparation of this intimate togetherness through the tableau with the chorus, which suggests a moment of inner peace, is superbly realised.”
Thomas Molke, Online Musik Magazin
Ernesto, Don Pasquale
Atlanta Opera, March 2017
Park's bright tenor voice adds a kind of whiny, spoiled rich kid flavor to Ernesto in the earlier scenes, when despairing about the choice between inheritance from Uncle Pasquale and his true love. But he becomes a more sympathetic romantic protagonist as the story wears on in the final act
Mark Gresham, ArtsATL.com, 30 March 2017
Rodolfo, La bohème
Opera Australia, January 2017
Ji-Min Park's Rodolfo had youthful freshness in the sound and the ability to position climactic phrases such as that leading to the high C in Che gelida manina in Act 1 so that they bloomed with radiant clarity
Peter McCallum, smh.com.au, 5 January 2017
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