Пётр Бечала

Polish tenor. Born in Czechowice-Dziedzice, southern Poland, he received his initial vocal education at the Academy of Music in Katowice. His teachers were Pavel Lisitsian and Sena Jurinac. He made his debut in 1997 at the municipal theatre of Linz, after which he was accepted into the company of the Zurich Opera. He performs at the world's leading opera houses. In 2004, he made his Royal Opera House debut as the Italian Singer ("Der Rosenkavalier"), and in 2006, his debuts at La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera as the Duke ("Rigoletto").

The singer's repertoire includes all the major romantic roles for lyric tenor. At the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, he has performed such roles as Lensky ("Eugene Onegin"), Rodolfo ("La Bohème"), Roméo ("Roméo et Juliette"), Faust ("Faust"), and the Duke ("Rigoletto"). At the Metropolitan Opera, he has also performed the roles of the Prince ("Rusalka" by Dvořák), Edgardo ("Lucia di Lammermoor"), and des Grieux ("Manon"); at the Royal Opera House, Alfredo Germont ("La Traviata"). The "Rigoletto" performance from the Met was later released on DVD, and the "Manon" production was broadcast worldwide as part of the Met Live HD project. Piotr Beczała also regularly appears at La Scala, the Salzburg Festival, the Royal Opera House, the Semperoper Dresden, and the Vienna and Bavarian State Operas.