Sunghoon Han is a bass-baritone from Seoul, South Korea, currently in the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. In the 2025–26 season, he will make his Met debut as the Second Armed Man in The Magic Flute, perform as bass soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the NEPA Philharmonic and in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Lexington Philharmonic, and return to the Aspen Opera Theater as a Renée Fleming Artist, where he performed Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and covered Colline in La bohème.

During the past season, he performed in the Patron Concert of opera scenes, the Met Orchestra Workshop with Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and the annual spring recital series at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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 multiple roles at Yonsei University, including Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Leporello in Don Giovanni.

On the concert stage, he has appeared 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, performing standard works by Mozart, Verdi, and Brahms, as well as Korean composers including Du-nam Cho.

In 2024, he was named the winner of the Indiana District of the Met’s Laffont Competition and placed 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 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 the Korea National Opera Studio. He holds a degree in vocal performance from Yonsei University and pursued further studies in the Artist Diploma program at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.