Polish tenor Piotr Beczala, makes his San Diego debut and is one of today's leading lyric tenors appearing outstandingly successful at numerous top class venues throughout the operatic world. Born and musically educated in Southern Poland he received his first engagement at the Theatre in Linz (Austria) and proceeded to the Zurich Opera where he is still frequently performing notwithstanding an intense international career in both opera and concert. His most successful operatic roles include Faust, Werther, Rodolfo, Alfredo, the Duke in Rigoletto, Riccardo, Edgardo, Lensky, Vaudémont in Iolanta and the Prince in Rusalka. Having made his US debut within concerts in Cleveland in 2004, he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 2006. Since then he has been heard there most successfully as Duke in Rigoletto, Lensky in Eugene Onegin and Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor joining the worldwide moviecast opposite to Anna Netrebko last season. He also appeared at San Francisco Opera recently singing Lensky, Tamino and Rodolfo. Within the current season Vienna, Chicago and Bilbao hear him sing Faust, Covent Garden, San Diego and the Met as Rodolfo in La bohème before joining a Zurich new-production of Rusalka as well as the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Christian Thielemann on tour. Piotr Beczala is closely connected to the leading European opera-houses in London, Milan, Berlin, Vienna and Paris too. He is very busy as a concert soloist joining frequently the leading orchestras of the world. Numerous CD- and DVD-releases demonstrate his international status as well as his wide range of repertoire.