Piotr Beczala

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Equally fêted by audiences and critics, Piotr Beczała is one of the most popular tenors of our time and a regular guest at the world’s leading opera houses. He was born in southern Poland and studied at the Academy of Music in Katowice with Pavel Lisitsian and Sena Jurinac. Recent appearances include Jontek in a new production of Stanisław Moniuszko’s »Halka« at the Theater an der Wien and Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, Lohengrin and the Prince in »Rusalka« at the Wiener Staatsoper, where he débuted in 1996 and has so far sung in just under 100 performances. Since his début as the Duke in 2006, Piotr Beczała has been a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera, where he has so far sung Lensky (»Eugene Onegin«), the Prince (»Rusalka«), Edgardo (»Lucia di Lammermoor«), Rodolfo (»La Bohème«), Vaudémont (»Iolanta«), Riccardo and the title roles in »Roméo et Juliette« and »Faust«. In 2011 he accompanied the Metropolitan Opera to Japan, and in 2012 he made his role début as Des Grieux in Massenet’s »Manon«. Piotr Beczała is also a regular guest at Milan’s La Scala and Munich’s Bavarian State Opera. He recently appeared at the Munich Festival as Riccardo. Guest appearances include the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Gran Teatre del Liceu, San Francisco Opera, Dutch National Opera, the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Teatr Wielki Warsaw, the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg and the Salzburg Festival, where recent appearances include Rodolfo, Vaudémont, Faust and Werther. In 2016 he made his début beside Anna Netrebko as Lohengrin at Dresden’s Semperoper under the baton of Christian Thielemann. Besides his opera career Piotr Beczała is much in demand as a concert and Lieder artist. Engagements have taken him to Baden-Baden, Amsterdam, Madrid, Budapest, Vienna, Milan and Oman, among others.  Piotr Beczała features on dozens of CDs and DVDs with a wide-ranging repertoire. In 2014 he was awarded the ECHO Klassik as »Singer of the year«.

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Performances with Piotr Beczala

Saison 2024-25
Mon
17 Feb
19:30 — 22:15
Giacomo Puccini
Oper Main Stage

with Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała, Ambrogio Maestri, Conductor: Pier Giorgio Morandi

Tosca

Cast on Monday 17. February 2025

Floria Tosca

Mario Cavaradossi

Baron Scarpia

Cesare Angelotti

Sciarrone

Ein Schließer

Musikalische Leitung

Inszenierung

Margarethe Wallmann

Bühne und Kostüme

Nicola Benois
Sun
18 May
Giuseppe Verdi
Oper Main Stage

with Luca Salsi, Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Piotr Beczała, Dmitry Ulyanov, Conductor: Marco Armiliato

Il Trovatore

Cast on Sunday 18. May 2025

Regie

Daniele Abbado

Bühnenbild

Graziano Gregori

Kostüme

Carla Teti

Licht

Alessandro Carletti

Regiemitarbeit

Boris Stetka

Bühnenbild-Mitarbeit

Angelo Linzalata
Wed
21 May
Giuseppe Verdi
Oper Main Stage

with Luca Salsi, Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Piotr Beczała, Dmitry Ulyanov, Conductor: Marco Armiliato

Il Trovatore

Cast on Wednesday 21. May 2025

Regie

Daniele Abbado

Bühnenbild

Graziano Gregori

Kostüme

Carla Teti

Licht

Alessandro Carletti

Regiemitarbeit

Boris Stetka

Bühnenbild-Mitarbeit

Angelo Linzalata
Sat
24 May
Giuseppe Verdi
Oper Main Stage

with Luca Salsi, Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Piotr Beczała, Dmitry Ulyanov, Conductor: Marco Armiliato

Il Trovatore

Cast on Saturday 24. May 2025

Regie

Daniele Abbado

Bühnenbild

Graziano Gregori

Kostüme

Carla Teti

Licht

Alessandro Carletti

Regiemitarbeit

Boris Stetka

Bühnenbild-Mitarbeit

Angelo Linzalata
Tue
27 May
Giuseppe Verdi
Oper Main Stage

with Luca Salsi, Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Piotr Beczała, Dmitry Ulyanov, Conductor: Marco Armiliato

Il Trovatore

Cast on Tuesday 27. May 2025

Regie

Daniele Abbado

Bühnenbild

Graziano Gregori

Kostüme

Carla Teti

Licht

Alessandro Carletti

Regiemitarbeit

Boris Stetka

Bühnenbild-Mitarbeit

Angelo Linzalata
Fri
30 May
Giuseppe Verdi
Oper Main Stage

with Luca Salsi, Krassimira Stoyanova, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Piotr Beczała, Dmitry Ulyanov, Conductor: Marco Armiliato

Il Trovatore

Cast on Friday 30. May 2025

Regie

Daniele Abbado

Bühnenbild

Graziano Gregori

Kostüme

Carla Teti

Licht

Alessandro Carletti

Regiemitarbeit

Boris Stetka

Bühnenbild-Mitarbeit

Angelo Linzalata