![]() ![]() Still, of Park’s performance, the Los Angeles Times wrote, “As Olympia, the mechanical doll that Hoffmann is tricked into believing is his love, So Young Park got by and sang spectacularly.”īut it’s her Queen of the Night that has continually wowed audiences, and L.A. ![]() Indeed, the 33-year old has been a fairly regular presence at LA Opera, having performed Top Daughter in the 2016 production, Akhnaten and, on very short notice, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, in 2017. So Young Park as Olivia in LA Opera's Tales of Hoffmann | Credit: Ken Howard/LA Opera Of course, there have been other prominent roles in her repertory, including that of Gossip in The Ghosts of Versailles, Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro, and Blonde in Los Angeles Opera’s 2017 production of The Abduction of the Seraglio. The music, which requires a soprano to repeatedly hit a high F, has also permeated pop culture: The film Eat Pray Love is but one example you can even hear it in car commercials, such as those for Volvo, and other advertisements.Ĭoloratura soprano So Young Park, who was born in Pusan, South Korea and is a graduate of Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist program, has sung more Queens than she can count. In any list of operatic showstoppers, surely the Queen of the Night’s rage aria, “Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen” (The vengeance of hell boils in my heart), from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The magic flute) would be near the top. ![]()
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