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 joined the cast of the Linz State Theater in Austria in 1992 and moved to the Zurich Opera in 1997. Major debuts at international houses began in 2004. He made his recording debut that year with an album devoted to the complete songs of Karol Szymanowski. Beczała has continued to appear on operatic and vocal music recordings, including, in 2013, one devoted to numbers popularized by operetta tenor Richard Tauber. In 2023, Beczała was heard with baritone Christian Gerhaher on a recording of the rare voice-and-piano version of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.