Hera Hyesang Park trained as a soprano at first Seoul National University in her native country and then at the Juilliard School in New York City in the United States.
She graduated from the latter school in 2015 and that same year won second prize at the Operalia international opera competition.
She was accepted into the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera ("the Met"), and made her debut at the Met as the First Wood Sprite in Dvořák's Rusalka in 2017.
She returned to the Met stage in 2019 as Amore in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice.
[1] Her other repertoire at the Met includes Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro (2017), the Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel (2017–2018), Pamina in The Magic Flute (2021–2022),[2] and Nannetta in Falstaff (2023).