©Ben Wolf
The Chilean-born and New Jersey-raised tenor has been praised for ‘radiant and distinctive sound’. After studying at the New School of Music, Mannes College and the Manhattan School of Music, Tetelman made a series of company and role debuts in rapid succession: Alfredo in La traviata and Rodolfo in La Bohème at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Canio in Pagliacci and Cavaradossi in Tosca with the Teatro Regio in Turin; Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with the Opéra National de Montpellier; Werther at the Gran Teatro Nacional de Lima and Opera del Teatro Solis in Montevideo; the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at the Berkshire Opera Festival.
He has since sung in operas around the world, including Rodolfo and Pinkerton at the Dresden Semperoper; Werther in Baden Baden; Ruggero in La rondine in his keenly anticipated debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York; Alfredo with San Francisco Opera; Cavaradossi with Houston Grand Opera and at the Theater an der Wien; Macduff in Macbeth at the Salzburg Festival; Paolo in Francesca da Rimini at the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Jacopo Foscari in Le due Foscari alongside Plácido Domingo; Loris Ipanov in Fedora with Ópera de Las Palmas and Oper Frankfurt.
Numerous concert appearances have included galas with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin at the Berlin Konzerthaus, with the Prague Philharmonia at Dvořák Hall in the Rudolfinum; New Year’s concerts with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon and the Borusan Festival in Istanbul; with Elīna Garanča at the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus and on tour throughout Eastern Europe as Don José in Carmen; with the Houston Symphony Orchestra in the Verdi Requiem, at the Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen, the Peralada Festival in Spain, the Festival Ljubljana in Slovenia alongside the baritone Ludovic Tézier and with the soprano Angela Gheorghiu in Brussels and Paris. He has sung a solo recital in Gstaad and performed in China for the opening gala concert of the Shenzhen Belt Road Music Festival.
Tetelman has sung the role of Rodolfo in a film of La Bohème, co-produced by Radio Televisione Italia and the Opera di Roma. In 2022 he recorded his first album, Arias, and in 2022 released his second, The Great Puccini.