
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 Armed Man in Julie Taymor’s beloved holiday production 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 covered the roles of Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Colline in La Bohème with Aspen Opera Theater and performed in the Met's 2025 Summer Parks Recital Series as part of the City Parks Foundation’s SummerStage Festival. Recent 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, and several roles at Yonsei University including Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Leporello in Don Giovanni. 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 made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2024 as part of a Yonsei University alumni concert featuring works by Mozart, Verdi, and Brahms as well as prominent Korean composers, including Du-nam Cho. 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 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, the MIOpera Vocal Competition, and the National Society of the Arts and Letters 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 the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.