Changdai Park

Biography

South Korean bass-baritone Changdai Park appeared as Brander in Berlioz' La damnation de Faust in summer 2023 with Domstufen Festspiele in Erfurt. Last season he made his house debuts at Theater Kiel as Abimalech Samson et Dalila, as Panas in Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve at Oper Frankfurt and as Monterone Rigoletto with the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. This season he is returning to Frankfurt in a new role Pope Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and as Panas in the revival of Christmas Eve. He is also making his role debut as Banco Macbeth with TOBS in Switzerland.

Changdai Park was a member of the opera studio at Komische Oper Berlin 2019-2021 and has continued to appear there as a guest. His roles in Berlin included Figaro Le nozze di Figaro, Zaretsky Eugene Onegin, Sprecher/ Zweiter Geharnischter Die Zauberflöte, Conte Ceprano Rigoletto, Farfarello/ Herold Love for three oranges, small roles in La Traviata, The Rake’s Progress and The Nose. He performed Zweiter Geharnischter Die Zauberflöte on a tour at the Macau Cultural Centre and Koahsiung Arts’ Centre in Taiwan. Last season he sang Zweiter Graalsritter Parsifal with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in the Grieg concert hall.

Changdai Park studied first in his hometown Busan and graduated in 2016 from the Seoul National University in the class of KS Attila Jun. He participated in masterclasses of KS Kwangchul Youn, Anne Sofie von Otter, John Norris and KS Deborah Polaski. He received the Grand Prix of the Korean Minister of Culture in 2015. He became prizewinner at important competitions such as Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 2022, Veronica Dunne 2022, Belvedere 2021, Los Angeles Kaleidoscope 2019, Daegu Voice Competition 2018.