Piotr Beczala’s first performances of 2016 can be heard in Paris January 20 through February 4. The leading tenor returns to the Opéra National de Paris to headline the company’s revival of Werther at the Opéra Bastille. Directed by Benoît Jacquot and conducted by Giacomo Sagripanti, Massenet’s romantic tragedy hears Piotr as the eponymous poet, […]

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Piotr Beczala’s return to Michael Mayers’s Las Vegas-themed Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera will be aired as part of the Met’s much-loved Saturday Matinee Broadcast series. The performance begins at 1:00 pm EST on December 12. The star tenor, who was praised in an earlier run of Rigoletto for “[stealing] the show, offering outrageous cool-cat […]

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Following this month’s conclusion of Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera, Piotr Beczala returns to Vienna for two concerts at the Wiener Konzerthaus. The star tenor joins an all-star lineup of colleagues including Angelika Kirchschlager, Valentina Nafornita, and Artur Rucinski, for “Christmas in Vienna 2015,” celebrating the holiday season on December 18 and 19. Joined by […]

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Piotr Beczala’s New York recital debut — and first time at Carnegie Hall — on Friday evening was met with acclaim from critics and a nearly sold-out audience. The tenor’s program of Schumann, Karlowicz, Dvorak, and Rachmaninoff “beautifully showcased his rich, virile voice, with its appealingly dark undertow,” according to the New York Times. The […]

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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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