Biography

Born in 1966 in southern Poland, Piotr Beczala studied at the Katowice Academy and made his debut in Linz, before joining the Zurich Opera troupe in 1997. He is a regular guest at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto, Lensky in Eugene Onegin, the Prince in Rusalka, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Roméo in Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, the title role in Faust, Vaudémont in Iolanta, Riccardo in The Masked Ball, the Chevalier Des Grieux in Manon), at La Scala in Milan (the Duke of Mantua, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Alfredo in La Traviata), at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich (Tamino, the Prince, Alfredo, the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, the title role in Werther), at the Vienna Staatsoper (Tamino, Alfredo, Faust, Edgardo, Rodolfo, Roméo, the Prince, the Duke of Mantua, Riccardo), at Covent Garden in London (the Italian Singer, Faust, Rigoletto, Lenski, Rodolfo, Romeo, Alfredo), at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Faust, Werther), at the San Francisco Opera (Lenski, Tamino, Rodolfo, Edgardo), at the Salzburg Festival (Rinaldo by Johannes Brahms under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Tamino, the Prince of Rusalka, Romeo, Faust, Rodolfo by La Bohème alongside Anna Netrebko, production recorded on DVD by Deutsche Grammophon), at the Paris National Opera (Tamino, Lenski, the Duke of Mantua, Rodolfo, Jenik from The Sold Bride, Faust, Werther)... In 2015, he made his debut in the title role of Lohengrin at the Semperoper in Dresden.
He has also performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (Un bal masqué), at the Vienna Staatsoper (Don José de Carmen and his debut as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur), at the Bayerische Staatsoper (Lucia di Lammermoor), at the Berlin Staatsoper (La Bohème), at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Luisa Miller), at the Zurich Opera (Le Pays du sourire).

Piotr Beczala also performs in concert (Verdi’s Requiem at the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Muti and at the Paris Opera under Philippe Jordan) as well as in recitals. He has recorded numerous CDs of works from the repertoire as well as rarer works such as Szymanowski’s Krol Roger, Offenbach’s Rheinnixen and Johann Strauss II’s Simplicius.

Source: operadeparis.fr