I will go on and defend Piotr Beczała. I have seen him in July 2023 in concert alongside Sondra Radvanovsky and can say that whether you like his voice color and tone is personal. I do. But one thing that is for sure is that he technically knows his voice inside and out. That B flat is a piano...vocal cords are so thinned that a piano like that can happen. As a tenor, studying I can not express the difficulty of learning how to do this and sing like him. Back to high B flat piano. It should be a piano. Because he is not convincing her in the dramatic sense but giving Carmen a love confession. It is a written piano pianissimo. Bravo Piotr !!!!

The original score says in that particular note: "pp a piacere", that means: "pianissimo, very softly". That way was written, that way Beczala sing it. So, other tenors ignore that statement, but it's good to hear it sometimes.

Most people cannot go to pianissimo in a healthy way. Only way is to constrict, which is what he and many other opera singers do nowadays. Back in the day, many operatic singers wouldn’t do it, because they hadn’t mastered it in a healthy way. Only very few had. It is better to protect the voice and ignore what is written sometimes…

Also often off pitch.

Do it better: Can you?