Jonathan Tetelman Opens Fort Worth Opera in Rare American Performance
By Francisco SalazarOn Oct. 10, 2025, tenor Jonathan Tetelman will take the stage of the Van Cliburn Concert Hall to open the Fort Worth Opera’s 80th anniversary season.
Tetelman will be joined by pianist Michael Recchiuti.
In a statement Tetelman said, “We’re going to do a Tosti set — Italian canzoni that need a softness you can lose with full orchestration. Then we’ll do Neapolitan songs, Nino Rota’s ‘Parla più piano’ from The Godfather, Spanish favorites like ‘Granada’ and ‘No puede ser,’ and of course some Puccini arias that people might not have experienced this way before.”
He added, “In America, it’s hard to put together a cross-country touring schedule as we don’t have that grassroots popularity, where every city and town has an opera house. But Fort Worth stands apart there. It’s not the biggest city in Texas, but it’s home to the state’s oldest opera company. There’s a real sophistication here — and I’m thrilled we could put this event together with Fort Worth Opera.”
Following the concert will be Fort Worth Opera’s “Dinner with the Stars.”
Tetelman rarely performs in the United States and will only perform in the country in Fort Worth, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. This season he also performs in Vienna, Verona, Berlin, and Rome, among others.
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