Joseph calleja tenor arias messiah
Joseph calleja tenor arias messiah
Joseph Calleja - Wikipedia!
JOSEPH CALLEJA – THE FALSE MESSIAH
| This article was written in 2008. While the judgements expressed here may have seemed harsh back then, time has proven the author's animadversion basically right, and after a short period in the early 2010s, when Calleja appeared to finally gain control over his unsteady technique, he was finished by the end of the decade, at merely 41 years old. |
When asked about their opinion on the tenor crisis, Joseph Calleja is the answer given by a constantly growing group of connoisseurs.
This tenor "has it all", they say, he is a "blast from the past" and reminds of Giacomo Lauri-Volpi in his best days. They stress Calleja's "free voice", his "healthy vibrato", his style, his timbre, the volume of his voice and its carrying capacity and the effortlessness of his singing.
Calleja has engagements around the world; he sings in Italy, Germany and in North America, his voice has been heard at Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera and the M