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Bass-Baritone

Sunghoon Han

This Season

Second Guard in The Magic Flute

Sunghoon Han is a bass-baritone from Seoul, South Korea, currently in his second year in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. This season at the Met, he will cover roles in Andrea Chénier and Eugene Onegin and make his company debut as the Second Guard in the Met’s holiday presentation of The Magic Flute. Additional engagements this season include performing with the Canton Symphony Orchestra as the bass soloist in Brahms’s A German Requiem and with the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic in Mozart’s Requiem. During the 2024–25 season, he appeared as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte with Aspen Opera Theater before covering Colline in their production of La Bohème and performed in the Met's 2025 Summer Parks Recital Series as part of the City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage Festival. Additional operatic engagements include Bartolo in Le Nozze di Figaro and Marco in Gianni Schicchi at Aspen Opera Theater, Gremin in Eugene Onegin and Nardo in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera at Indiana University, among others. He has appeared on the concert stage as the bass soloist in Verdi’s Requiem with the Carmel Symphony and in Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli with Yonsei University. He was named winner of the Indiana District of the Met’s 2024 Laffont Competition and went on to place third in the Central Region. Later that year, he received high marks in several prestigious vocal competitions including the Premiere Opera Foundation International Vocal Competition, Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and the MIOpera Vocal Competition. He is an alumnus of the Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS Program, where he was a Renée Fleming Artist Fellow, and Korea National Opera Studio. He holds a degree in vocal performance from Yonsei University and pursued studies as part of the Artist Diploma program at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

Hometown

Seoul, South Korea

Met Debut

This Season

Second Guard in The Magic Flute

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