Joseph Calleja - Verdi
Joseph Calleja (tenor), Vittorio Vitelli (baritone), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ramón Tebar
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
For the love duet from Otello…he sounds marvellously virile and tireless…Calleja has not yet learnt the required inwardness for Otello’s two great monologues, but he has the voice for all these...
Joseph Calleja - Verdi
Joseph Calleja (tenor), Vittorio Vitelli (baritone), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ramón Tebar
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
For the love duet from Otello…he sounds marvellously virile and tireless…Calleja has not yet learnt the required inwardness for Otello’s two great monologues, but he has the voice for all these...
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- Joseph Calleja (tenor)
- Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
- Ramón Tebar
- Recorded: 2016-12-09
- Recording Venue: Palau de les Arts, Reina Sofia, Valencia
- Joseph Calleja (tenor), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
- Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Apollo Voices
- Ramón Tebar
- Recorded: 2016-12-09
- Recording Venue: Palau de les Arts, Reina Sofia, Valencia
- Joseph Calleja (tenor), Vittorio Vitelli (baritone)
- Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
- Ramón Tebar
- Recorded: 2016-12-09
- Recording Venue: Palau de les Arts, Reina Sofia, Valencia
- Joseph Calleja (tenor), Vittorio Vitelli (baritone)
- Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
- Ramón Tebar
- Recorded: 2016-12-09
- Recording Venue: Palau de les Arts, Reina Sofia, Valencia
- Joseph Calleja (tenor), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Vittorio Vitelli (baritone)
- Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
- Ramón Tebar
- Recorded: 2016-12-09
- Recording Venue: Palau de les Arts, Reina Sofia, Valencia
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Joseph Calleja on Verdi
8th Feb 2018
Katherine talks to the Maltese tenor about his new album of arias from operas including Otello, Il trovatore, Don Carlo and Aida.
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Verdi albums from Joseph Calleja and Sonya Yoncheva
2nd Feb 2018
The Maltese tenor and Bulgarian soprano triumph in their explorations of the composer's more dramatic roles.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week2nd February 2018
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year2018
June 2018
For the love duet from Otello…he sounds marvellously virile and tireless…Calleja has not yet learnt the required inwardness for Otello’s two great monologues, but he has the voice for all these difficult arias and duets, and so long as he doesn’t attempt too much too soon he may well become the leading Italianate tenor of his generation.
May 2018
...together with some expansive phrasing, his clean diction, musicianship and intelligent engagement exemplify the conscientious artist; he attacks the final note fortissimo before diminishing to nothing. Among the best things here is the challenging 'O tu che in seno', Calleja supplying an exciting, thought-through reading of this touchstone among Verdi arias.
2nd February 2018
Calleja is already supremely alive to [Otello's] vulnerability and volatility, and his golden tone has now darkened to a gleaming bronze which cleaves through the heavy orchestration in the two great monologues with easy clarity. Stylistically and temperamentally, he seems completely at home in this repertoire, never afraid to add faintly old-school expressive effects, though nothing ever seems contrived or histrionic.
4th March 2018
Any doubts about the most winning lyric “Italian” tenor since Pavarotti tackling this heavy Verdi repertoire are largely dispelled by the vitality of his sunny sound and the clarity of his diction.
Opera Now April 2018
...it’s in the selections from Otello that Calleja sounds most comfortable. Just when one would expect the voice to sink beneath the orchestral waves he provides precisely the refinement required, sings within his means and reminds us that not the entire role requires powerhouse bellowing. Ramón Tebar’s conducting is judicious and attentive.
