Jonathan Tetelman

An American tenor born in Castro, Chile, in 1988, Jonathan Tetelman has developed a career on opera stages around the world in just a few short years. Adopted at the age of seven months by American parents, he grew up in Hopewell, New Jersey, and studied baritone at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, before moving on to tenor at the Mannes School of Music. Engaged in several European productions, in Berlin, London, Turin, Barcelona and Vienna, he revealed himself in operas by Puccini and Verdi in the early 2020s, singing alongside Placido Domingo in I due Foscari at the Florentine Mai Musical in April 2022. Shortly afterwards, Deutsche Grammophon releases his first Arias recital, featuring arias by Verdi, Puccini, Bizet, Giordano, Ponchielli, Mascagni and Massenet, to critical acclaim and a first Diapason d'or. As he continues his ascent on the stages of the Baden-Baden and Gstaad festivals, or at the Vienna Opera in Cavalliera rusticana (Mascagni), Tetelman unveils the recital The Great Puccini (2023), recorded with the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Carlo Rizzi. In 2025, he partners Eleonora Buratto and Ludovic Tézier in Daniel Harding's critically acclaimed Tosca conducted by the Orchestra of the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome.