Piotr Beczala
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| Born | Poland | |
| Genre(s) | Opera, Neapolitan, Pop | |
| Occupation(s) | Opera Singer | |
| Instrument(s) | Voice (tenor) | |
Piotr Beczala is a Polish operatic tenor who made his Metropolitan Opera debut in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto on December 19, 2006.
Born and musically educated in Southern Poland, Piotr Beczala was first engaged by the Linz Landestheater before switching to the Zurich Opera which he remained closely associated making an international career. He has performed with London's Covent Garden, the San Francisco Opera, in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt and in Munich. In 2006 he made his debut with Milan's Teatro alla Scala and with the New York Metropolitan Opera. He has also appeared at the opera houses in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, Vienna, Geneva, Bologna and Athens as well as with the festivals in Salzburg, Graz, Lucerne and Montpellier.
Piotr Beczala's stage repertoire consists mostly of lyric tenor roles such as Alfredo (La Traviata), Duca di Mantova (Rigoletto), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Werther, Faust, Lensky (Eugene Onegin), Vaudémont (Iolanta), Jenik (The Bartered Bride), Pasterz (King Roger), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Belmonte (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Orombello (Beatrice di Tenda), Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier) and Camille de Rosillon (The Merry Widow).
Concert engagements made him appear at the Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Munich Philharmonic Hall, the Munich Herkulessaal, the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Zurich Tonhalle, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Moscow Tchaikovsky-Conservatory and at the Severance Hall in Cleveland. His wide concert repertoire ranges from Mozart's, Cherubini's and Schubert's sacred music, Haydn's oratorios, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Schumann's Paradies und die Peri, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Petite Messe Solennelle, BBerlioz’s Roméo et Juliette and Requiem, Bruckner's Te Deum, Dvorák's Stabat Mater and Requiem and Brahms's Rinaldo to Verdi's Messa da Requiem as well as Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and Das klagende Lied.
Piotr Beczala has sung the role of Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata during his first engagement in Linz, and also in Athens, Zurich, Frankfurt and Bilbao, at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as when making his debut with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
[edit] References
- Farao Classics - Piotr Beczala
[edit] External Links
- musicOMH.com - Interview with Piotr Beczala
- YouTube - Piotr Beczala - Das Land des Lächelns - "Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Her" - Piotr Beczala sings Franz Lehár's "Dein Ist Mein Ganzes Her" from Das Land Des Lächelns (German)
- YouTube - Piotr Beczala - "Che Gelida Manina" - Piotr Beczala sings Giacomo Puccini's "Che Gelida Manina" from La Bohème (Italian)
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