{{Short description|Chilean-born American operatic tenor (born 1988)}} {{Infobox person | name = Jonathan Tetelman | image = Jonathan Tetelman.jpg | caption = 2023 | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1988}} | birth_place = Castro, Chile | alma_mater = {{ubl | Manhattan School of Music | Mannes School of Music}} | occupation = Operatic tenor | module={{Infobox musical artist|embed=yes | label = Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Classics}} | awards = | website = {{url|https://www.jonathantetelman.com/}} }} '''Jonathan Tetelman''' (born 1988) is a Chilean American operatic tenor who has established an international career, especially in Europe, in such roles as Alfredo in Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, the title role in Jules Massenets Werther, Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Loris Ipanov in Umberto Giordano's Fedora (opera).
== Career == Tetelman was born in Castro, Chile. He was adopted as a baby and grew up in Hopewell, New Jersey.<ref name="DG" /> He studied at the Manhattan School of Music in New York as a baritone before further study at the Mannes School of Music where he made the transition to tenor.<ref name="DG" /><ref name="Semperoper" />
He appeared as Rodolfo at the Komische Oper Berlin, the English National Opera and the Royal Opera House and as Cavaradossi at the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Opéra de Lille, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Semperoper in Dresden and Deutsche Oper Berlin.<ref name="DG" /><ref name="ROH" /> He also appeared as Alfredo at the Royal Opera House,<ref name="DG" /><ref name="ROH" /> as Pinkerton at the Opéra Comédie in Montpellier, and as Werther at the Teatro Solís in Montevideo.<ref name="ROH" /> After singing the Duke in Verdi's ''Rigoletto'' at Oper Frankfurt, he was invited back in 2022 to perform Loris Ipanov alongside Nadja Stefanoff in the title role of Fedora,<ref name="Frankfurt" /><ref name="Molke" /> leading the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' to describe his voice as "of intense, inescapable euphony, warmly grounded, full-bodied, yet admirably elegant and supple".<ref name="Brachmann" /> Another critic called him "ideal" for the role.<ref name="Molke" />
Tetelman's concert repertory includes Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which he has sung with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Verdi's Requiem and Edward Elgar's ''The Dream of Gerontius''.<ref name="ROH" /> In 2021 he signed an exclusive artist contract with Deutsche Grammophon.<ref name="DG" />
== References == <references>
<ref name="Brachmann">{{cite news | last = Brachmann | first = Jan | url = https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/umberto-giordanos-fedora-an-der-oper-frankfurt-17934378.html | title = Unentrinnbarer Wohlklang | newspaper = FAZ | date = 19 April 2022 | language = de | accessdate = 3 May 2022 }}</ref>
<ref name="Molke">{{cite news | last = Molke | first = Thomas | url = http://www.omm.de/veranstaltungen/musiktheater20212022/F-fedora.html | title = Fedora | work = Online Musik Magazin | date = 3 April 2022 | language = de | accessdate = 10 May 2022 }}</ref>-->
<ref name="DG">{{cite web | url = https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/artists/jonathan-tetelman/news/deutsche-grammophon-signs-tenor-jonathan-tetelman-264642 | title = Deutsche Grammophon Signs Tenor Jonathan Tetelman | publisher = Deutsche Grammophon | date = 2022 | access-date = 3 May 2022 }}</ref>
<ref name="Frankfurt">{{cite web | url = https://oper-frankfurt.de/en/ensemble-guest-artists-opera-team/ensemble/?detail=1148 | title = Jonathan Tetelman | publisher = Oper Frankfurt | date = 2022 | access-date = 3 May 2022 }}</ref>
<ref name="ROH">{{cite web | url = http://www.roh.org.uk/people/jonathan-tetelman | title = Jonathan Tetelman | publisher = Royal Opera House | date = 2022 | access-date = 10 May 2022 }}</ref>
<ref name="Semperoper">{{cite web | url = https://www.semperoper.de/ensemble/personen/peid/jonathan-tetelman/6129.html | title = Jonathan Tetelman / Solist (Gast) | publisher = Semperoper | date = 2022 | language = de | access-date = 3 May 2022 }}</ref>
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== External links == * {{official|https://www.jonathantetelman.com/}} * [https://www.operabase.com/artists/jonathan-tetelman-34064/en Jonathan Tetelman] in operabase.com
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