2024

Samueol Park

Samueol Park is a South Korean baritone born in 1992. He studied under Professor Sangho Choi at the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul, and later pursued studies under Professor Ewa Wolak at the Hanns Eisler School of Music in Berlin. During the 2021/22 season, he was part of the Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble as a WCN Berlin scholar, and he returned in 2022/23 as Fiorillo in Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. He is set to make his house debut at the Oper Wuppertal in April 2024 as Landgraf Rudolf in Smyth’s Der Wald. In 2023, he won first prize in the Mt Fuji International Opera Competition of Shizuoka, Japan.

born in 1992

baritone

South Korean

pianist: Hans-Otto Ehrström

Repertoire

Preliminary round

V. Bellini

I Puritani: “Ah per sempre io ti perde” (Riccardo)

H. Duparc

Le manoir de Rosemonde (Bonnières)

G. F. Handel

Judas Maccabaeus: Arm, arm ye brave

G. Mahler

Ich hab’ ein glühend Messer (Mahler)

Semifinals

Y. Kilpinen

Illalla (Leino)

R. Schumann

Zwölf Gedichte von Justinus Kerner:

Lust der Sturmnacht

Wanderlied

Erstes Grün

Wanderung

Stille Liebe

Frage

Stille Tränen

G. Verdi

Falstaff: “È sogno o realtà?” (Ford)

Final

G. Verdi

Don Carlo: “Carlos, écoute… Ah! je meurs” (Rodrigo)

U. Giordano

Andrea Chénier: “Nemico della patria” (Gérard)

Competition performances

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