Han, Jongwon

Bass-Baritone
(Seoul, South Korea)

Third-year Adler Fellow Jongwon Han was the Third Prize winner at the 2022 Operalia, The World Opera Competition. The Korean bass-baritone recently debuted with Atlanta Opera as Schaunard in La Bohème and sang the same role in Bohème Out of the Box with San Francisco Opera, where he also sang Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera and the Speaker in Die Zauberflöte, and covered the role of Escamillo in Carmen.

Upcoming engagements include Colline in La Bohème and The Speaker with Opera Naples. Recent career highlights include Han’s San Francisco Opera debut as Il Bonzo in Madama Butterfly, a Voice of the Watchmen in Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten and Colline in Bohème Out of the Box, as well as debuts with Dayton Opera in Handel’s Messiah and Palm Beach Opera as Il Bonzo.

In the summer of 2022, Han joined Santa Fe Opera as an Apprentice Artist, covering the role of Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and made his professional debut at the Vernazza Opera Festival (Cinque Terre, Italy). His operatic roles include the title roles of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro and Masetto in Don Giovanni. He has been featured in Bach’s Cantata BWV 140, Mozart’s Sparrow Mass, and Haydn’s Theresienmesse.

Han was a Grand Finalist in the 2021 Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition, first prize winner of the Vero Beach Opera Rising Stars, and third place and Audience Choice award winner in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition. In 2021, he was the recipient of the Stephen De Maio Memorial Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation and an encouragement award winner in the Gerda Lissner Lieder Competition.

Han received his Bachelor of Music degree from Seoul National University and his master’s degree at the Mannes School of Music, and he studied at The Juilliard School in the Artist Diploma in Opera Studies program.