Sung-Hwan Damien Park

Sung-Hwan Damien Park was among the singers of the twenty-fourth Raina Kabaivanska international master class at the Sofia Opera in October 2024, and the following May appeared in the gala that opened the sixteenth International Istanbul Opera and Ballet Festival at the Atatürk Cultural Centre, sharing the evening with Naueon Lee, Aleksandrina Mihaylova, Marta Lazzaro and Donghyun Kim. Born in Seoul on 26 April 1991, he took his bachelor's and master's degrees under Carlo Kang at Kyung Hee University, was a semi-finalist at the Mirjam Helin competition in 2019, attended the Georg Solti Accademia and the International Opera Academy in Ghent, and entered the Accademia Teatro alla Scala for the 2021–2023 biennium. He made his Scala debut in April 2022 as a Lackey in Ariadne auf Naxos and sang there Dandini, Count Robinson, Fléville in Andrea Chénier, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Ping in Turandot; he created Picaro in Donizetti's Chiara e Serafina at the Teatro Sociale in Bergamo in 2022. He took first prize and the audience award at the Ottavio Ziino competition in 2024, was a finalist at the Viñas competition the same year, and made his debut at the Seoul Metropolitan Opera as Schaunard in November 2024.