Month: October 2015

Metropolitan Opera return as Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto

Piotr Beczala returns to the Metropolitan Opera November 13 through December 12 for the company’s revival of Rigoletto. Starring in Michael Mayers’s Vegas-inspired production, which premiered with Piotr in 2013, the tenor brings with him his “ringing tone and ardor” (New York Times) and  “outrageous cool-cat charisma as the Duke, singing and moving with immaculate […]

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Piotr Beczala’s autumn season continues at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Los Angeles

Following October 28’s final performance of Lucia di Lammermoor at San Francisco Opera, Piotr Beczala looks ahead to a week of recitals and concerts in New York and Los Angeles. The tenor begins with his New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall, alongside renowned pianist Martin Katz, in a program of works by Schumann, Karlowicz, […]

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A “magnificent return” to San Francisco Opera in Lucia di Lammermoor

Piotr Beczala’s return to San Francisco Opera was hailed as “magnificent” by the San Francisco Chronicle, reviewing last night’s premiere of Lucia di Lammermoor. The Chronicle writes of the tenor’s star performance as Edgardo, “Each time Beczala came onstage — whether to pledge his love to Lucia in Act 1, to grapple with what he […]

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