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Soprano Haeran Hong, named the International Queen Elizabeth Grand Prize winner, has been noted as “charming of form, manner, and voice.” Recent engagements include the début of the role of Violetta in La Traviata with Opera in Williamsburg, the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor with Florida Grand Opera, the title role in Verdi’s Giovanna d’Arco with Odyssey Opera, and a return to The Metropolitan Opera as a Flower Maiden in Parsifal.  Additional engagements include the title role of Händel’s Semele with Pacific Musicworks in Seattle, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro at Princeton Festival.

Ms. Hong initially joined the Metropolitan Opera roster as Crowned Child in Macbeth and returned shortly thereafter in Robert Lepage’s production of Siegfried, to sing Flower Maiden in Parsifal, to cover the roles of Olympia in Les contes d’Hoffman, Nannetta in Falstaff, and Sophie in Werther, as well as for their productions of Die Frau ohne Schatten, Dialogues des carmélites, and Un ballo in maschera.

With Juilliard Opera, she performed the title role of L’incoronazione di Poppea, Sister Constance in Dialogues des carmélites, Dalinda in Händel’s Ariodante, and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro. She also sang the role of Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro and covered the role of Seleuce in Händel’s Tolomeo, re d’Egitto as a member of Glimmerglass Opera’s Young American Artists program.

Favorite concert engagements include Händel’s Messiah with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; a concert of Händel music with Maestro Harry Bicket and the Hong Kong Philharmonic; Bach’s Wass Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan and Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes with the La Jolla Summer Fest; Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 with the Aspen Music Festival; a concert with the Vienna Strauss Festival Orchestra in Korea; a gala concert at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow; plus Rutter’s Mass of the Children and excerpts from Messiah at Carnegie Hall.

Recent international engagements include her début with the International Festival Echternach in Luxembourg, where she performed with the Orchestre Phiharmonique du Luxembourg. She was invited to sing for Queen Paola Foundation’s Annual Christmas Concert in Belgium, returned to Korea for a concert in Seoul with Prime Philharmonic Orchestra and for a production of L’elisir d’amore as Adina with Seoul Metropolitan Opera, and also traveled to Brazil for a series of recitals in such venues as Teatro Municipal do Rio de Janeiro and Teatro Cultura Artística in São Paulo.

Haeran Hong holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Korean National University of Arts, as well as a Master of Music Degree and Artistic Diploma in Opera Studies from The Juilliard School. In the fall of 2019, she became a professor of voice at the Korean National University of Arts.