Joseph Calleja

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Joseph Calleja, (born 22 January 1978), is a Maltese tenor. He began singing at the age of 16 and being discovered by Paul Asciak continued his studies with him. At the young age of 19, he made his first operatic debut as Macduff in Verdi's Macbeth at Astra Theatre in Gozo and went on to become a prize winner in at the Belvedere Hans Gabor competition the same year. In 1998 he won the Caruso Competition in Milan and was a prize winner in Placido Domingo's Operalia in 1999. Calleja is one of the most promising young tenors today. He also recorded two Compacts disc with his performances which has also been given radio play in the U.S. These are Tenor Arias and The Golden Voice.

In Europe Joseph has performed in many Opera Houses including Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London, the Vienna Staatsoper, Frankfurt Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg,Teatre Principal in Majorca, Gran Teatre de Liceu in Barcelona and many more.

In the USA Joseph has performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Los Angeles Opera,Seattle Opera and the Civic Opera House in Chicago.

[edit] REPERTORY

Adolphe Adam
Zephoris (Si j’etais roi)

Vincenzo Bellini
Tebaldo (Capuletti e Montecchi)
Arturo (I Puritani )
Elvino (La Sonnambula)

Azio Corghi
Lind (Isabella)

Gaetano Donizetti
Nemorino (L'Elisir d'Amore )
Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor)
Leicester (Maria Stuarda)
Ernesto (Don Pasquale)
Roberto Devereux (Roberto Devereux)

Charles Gounod
Faust (Faust)
Romeo (Romeo et Juliette)

W.A. Mozart
Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni

Giacomo Puccini
Rodolfo (La Bohème )
Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi)

Gioacchino Rossini
Almaviva (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

Giuseppe Verdi
Fenton (Falstaff)
Edoardo di Sanval (Un Giorno di Regno)
Macduff (Macbeth)
Duca (Rigoletto)
Alfredo (La Traviata)

[edit] Discography

RECITAL DISCS

The Golden Voice
Joseph Calleja
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Carlo Rizzi
Decca Classics 2005

Tenor Arias
Joseph Calleja
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano
Giuseppe Verdi
Riccardo Chailly
Decca Classics 2004

COMPLETE OPERA RECORDINGS Gaetano Donizetti
MARIA STUARDA
Fondazione Orchestra Stabile de Bergamo / Coro del Circuito Lirico Regionale Lombardo
Fabrizio Maria Carminati

Carmela Remigio, soprano - Sonia Ganassi, mezzo - Joseph Calleja, tenor - Riccardo Zanellato, bass - Marzio Giossi, baritone - Cinzia Rizzone, soprano

Dynamic (Italy) DVD 2003

OTHER DISCS
Puccini Dicoveries
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano
Giuseppe Verdi
Riccardo Chailly

Decca Classics 2004
By Request
Renée Fleming
Various orchestras and conductors

Calleja is the voice of Alfredo in the Act I closing scene of Verdi's La Traviata