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The year 2006 contained for Piotr Beczala a series of outstandingly important debuts with leading opera houses of the world: He performed as Alfredo in Verdi's "La Traviata" for the very first time with the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and sang the role of Duca di Manotova in Verdi's "Rigoletto" both when appearing for the first time at Milan's Teatro alla Scala as well as when making his sensational debut with the New York Metropolitan Opera. He had already made his US-stage debut as Lensky in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" in 2004. In 2006 he was also frenetically acclaimed by both audience and press for his portrayal of the title role of Massenet's "Werther" at the Frankfurt Opera, he sang the role of Don Ottavio in Mozart's "Don Giovanni" within a new production at the Zurich Opera as well as with Salzburg Festival and returned to London's Royal Opera House Covent Garden singing Gounod's "Faust" again which he had already caused much furore with when making his role debut there a couple of years ago. At the beginning of this year he added Edgardo in Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" to his repertoire. Singing this role he will return back to the New York Met in 2008. Piotr Beczala has established himself as one of the most outstanding lyric tenors of our time giving numerous most successful performances at leading musical venues within the last years.
Piotr Beczala has been mostly performing with the following theatres: De Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, Théâtre Royal La Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra National de Paris, Bilbao Opera, Colonge Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, Vienna State Opera, Zurich Opera, Grand Théâtre in Geneva, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Megaron in Athens, Royal Opera House Covent Garden London and the San Francisco Opera a. o. Furthermore guest appearances led him regularly to the most important international festivals: Salzburg Festival, Vienna Festival Weeks, Vienna Klangbogen Festival, Styriarte Graz, Zurich Festival, Lucerne Festival, Montpellier Festival, and others. 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 KKL Lucerne, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Moscow Tchaikovsky-Conservatory and at the Severance Hall in Cleveland.
Piotr Beczala's stage repertoire consists mostly of the lyric tenor roles of the canonic operatic repertoire: Alfredo ("La Traviata"/Verdi), Duca di Mantova ("Rigoletto"/Verdi), Edgardo ("Lucia di Lammermoor"/Donizetti),Rodolfo ("La Bohème"/Puccini), "Werther" (Massenet), "Faust" (Gounod), Lensky ("Jevgeny Onegin"/Tchaikovsky), Vaudémont ("Iolanta"/ Tchaikovsky), Jenik ("The Bartered Bride"/Smetana), Pasterz ("Krol Roger"/Szymanowski), Tamino ("The Magic Flute"/Mozart), Belmonte ("The Abduction from the Seraglio"/Mozart), Don Ottavio ("Don Giovanni"/Mozart), Orombello ("Beatrice di Tenda"/Bellini), Italian Singer ("Der Rosenkavalier"/R. Strauss) and Camille de Rosillon ("The Merry Widow"/Lehár). Upcoming new challenges include Gustavo ("Un ballo in maschera"/Verdi), Prince ("Rusalka"/Dvořák) and Hoffmann ("The Tales of Hoffmann"/Offenbach).
Born in Southern Poland Piotr Beczala received his first vocal education in Kattowice. Among his vocal teachers one will find names like Jan Ballarin, Pavel Lisizian and Sena Jurinac. After his first engagement at the Landestheater Linz (Austria) he switched to the Zurich Opera in 1997 where he sang - besides the already mentioned parts - numerous further roles: Tristan ("Le Vin Herbé"/Martin), Steva ("Jenůfa"/Janáček), Synodal ("The Demon"/Rubinstein), Walther von der Vogelweide ("Tannhäuser"/Wagner), Arnim von Grübben ("Simplicius"/Joh. Strauß), Matteo ("Arabella"/ Richard Strauss) and Elvino ("La Sonnambula"/Bellini). After being a permanent member of the Zurich Opera for some years Piotr Beczala remained closely associated to this company.
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", Berlioz’s "Roméo et Juliette" and "Requiem", Bruckner's "Te Deum", Dvořák'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".
In concert and opera Piotr Beczala has worked closely with numerous renown conductors: Gerd Albrecht, Maurizio Benini, Bertrand de Billy, Michael Boder, Ivor Bolton, Richard Bonynge, Frans Brüggen, Semyon Bychkov, Sylvain Cambreling, Paolo Carignani, Sir Andrew Davis, Edo de Waart, Placido Domingo, Vladimir Fedosejev, Ivan Fischer, Michael Gielen, Carlo Mario Giulini, Hartmut Haenchen, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Philippe Herreweghe, Mariss Jansons, Marek Janowski, Michail Jurowski, Vladimir Jurowski, Ton Koopman, Zubin Mehta, Ingo Metzmacher, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Renato Palumbo, Antonio Pappano, Trevor Pinnock, Nello Santi, Peter Schneider, Martin Sieghart, Christian Thielemann, Marcello Viotti, Franz Welser Möst and Alberto Zedda. In the future he will also be working with Philippe Jordan, Donald Runnicles and James Levine.
On CD the artist can be heard on the following recordings: Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" ('Arte Nova'), Dvořák's "Svatá Ludmila" ('Orfeo Records'), "Simplicius" ('Emi'), Offenbach's "Die Rheinnixen" and Szymanowski's "Krol Roger" ('Accord'), Tchaikovsky's "Iolanta" ('Relief'), Verdi's "La Traviata" ('Farao Classics'), Berlioz’s "Roméo et Juliette" (Edition ‘Hänssler') as well as on a recital CD with songs by Karol Szymanowski ('Channel Classics'). A complete recording of Lehár's operetta "The Land of Smiles" with Piotr Beczala as Prince Sou-Chong will be published soon.
On DVD the following productions are available: "Simplicius", "The Magic Flute", "The Abduction from the Seraglio", "The Merry Widow" and "La Traviata" (all from the Zurich Opera) as well as "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Don Giovanni" (from Salzburg Festival 2004 respectively 2006). Further DVD releases are already announced including "Eugene Onegin" and "The Magic Flute" from the Opéra National de Paris as well as "Rigoletto" and "Don Giovanni" from the Zurich Opera.
March 2007
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