Piotr Beczala

Tenor Piotr Beczała has enjoyed a long career encompassing performances of operas from Italy, Germany, and France, as well as from his native Eastern Europe. In middle age, he has added Italian verismo operas to his repertory. Beczała (pronounced Be-TSA-wa) was born on December 28, 1966, in Czechowice-Dziedzice in southern Poland. He studied singing at the Katowice Academy of Music; among his teachers were Pavel Lisitsian and Sena Jurinac. Beczała came of age as a singer just as opportunities were opening in the West after the fall of Communism, and he joined the cast of the ...