Santa Monica's Broad Stage Features Grammy-Winning Tenor Piotr Beczala, 4/28

The Broad Stage features internationally renowned, Grammy-winning tenor Piotr Beczala in Santa Monica, Calif., April 28, 2012 at 7 p.m.

The program Beczala will be performing includes works by Verdi, Rossini, Gounod, Leoncavallo, Beethoven, Schumann, Strauss, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. He will be accompanied by pianist Brian Zeger.

From 2004 to 2006, Beczala made several major international house debuts and has been in constant demand since. In 2010 alone, he performed as Rodolfo in Puccini's La Bohème with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the San Diego Opera, the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna State Opera, as Lensky in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Prince in Dvorak's Rusalka and Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata with the Zurich Opera, as Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor with the Hamburg State Opera and the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and as Jenik in Smetana's Prodana Nevesta with the Paris Opéra National. The Salzburg Festival heard his role debut as Roméo in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, a part he meanwhile also sang in London and at the Met in 2011. In 2011, he also sang Edgardo with the Vienna State Opera, as well as Gustavo in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera with the Zurich Opera, the Prince in Rusalka in Munich, Gounod's Faust when making his debut with the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Alfredo at London's Covent Garden and Tchaikovsky's Iolanta within Salzburg Festival 2011.

Piotr Beczala was born in Czechowice-Dziedzice in Southern Poland and received his initial vocal training at the Katowice Academy of Music, where he was given instruction by such illustrious singers as Pavel Lisitsian and Sena Jurinac. His first engagement was at the Landestheater Linz and in 1997 he became a company member of the Zürich Opera, a distinction he still enjoys. During that time he appeared in a wide array of lyric roles, providing an excellent foundation for his subsequent development into the major artist he is today.

Visit The Broad Stage online at http://www.TheBroadStage.com. Tickets, which cost $65 to $110, are available online or by calling 310.434.3200. The Broad Stage is located at 1310 11th Street, Santa Monica, CA inside the Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center. Parking is free.