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Artist's Website: www.johnkunpark.com

 

"In the title role [Otello], Korean-American tenor John Kun Park sang earnestly, powerfully demonstrating the downward trajectory of the short-tempered antihero...he subsequently sounded angrier and more unhinged as the story progressed. His duet with Iago, “Sì, pel ciel marmoreo guiro,” was marked with terrifying force, and his scene at the end of Act III was almost too hard to watch."

Parterre Box 6/3/2025

Michael Anthonio

In recent seasons, John has sung Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca with Opera Modesto, Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer with West Bay Opera, Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos with Berlin Opera Academie, Ismaele in Nabucco with West Bay Opera, Erste König in Der Liebe Die Danae with Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Tenor I in The Tibetan Book of the Dead with Opera Grand Rapids, Rick in I was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I saw the Sky with InSeries Opera Washington, DC, and Don Jose in Carmen with Central City Opera.  At Lancaster’s Penn Square Opera for their Opera Couples Therapy concert, he headlined signature pieces and duets from Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana and Tosca. Last season, he finished with Mid America Productions at Carnegie Hall as their guest Tenor Soloist for Mozart’s Coronation Mass. John has covered Adolfo Pirelli and Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd with Des Moines Metro, and Canio in I Pagliacci with Opera Tampa.

John has performed with various companies, debuting roles such as Don Jose Carmen, Faust Faust, Ismaele Nabucco, Siegmund Die Walküre, and performing as a feature soloist with companies such as the LA Philharmonic, Des Moines Metro Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Sarasota Opera, Central City Opera, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, and West Bay Opera.

 

John is a recipient of the prestigious Olga Forrai Foundation Grant.

Korean-American Tenor John Kun Park has been described as a tenor with "a stentorian voice," “that floats his high notes with ease and emotional fervor."
 

The 2025-2026 season begins with John's debut as Samson in Saint-Saen's Samson et Dalila with West Bay Opera, and will immediately go to debut B.F. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opera on the James. Later in the season, John will revive Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca with Opera Montana.

John's 2024-2025 season was filled with many role debuts - Rodolfo, La boheme with Opera on the James, Loud Stone in Matthew Aucoin’s Eurydice with Opera Grand Rapids, Daruma, Both Eyes Open with New Performance Traditions’ by Max Duykers, Manrico, Il Trovatore with Boheme Opera NJ, and the titular role of Otello in Verdi’s Otello with West Bay Opera. He closed his season by joining the Glimmerglass Festival covering Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca

John Kun Park

Tenor

Esultate
00:46
E lucevan le stelle
02:56
Nessun dorma
03:06
Recondita armonia
03:01
La boheme Act 3
04:29
Bacchus selections from Ariadne auf Naxos
06:32
Siegmund heiß ich - Die Walküre
03:04
Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond - Die Walküre
02:42
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