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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra RecommendedThomas Hampson (Simon Boccanegra), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno), Kristine Opolais (Amelia/Maria), Carlo Colombara (Fiesco), Luca Pisaroni (Paolo)
Wiener Symphoniker & Wiener Singakademie, Massimo Zanetti
Hampson is, as always, a searching interpreter, aware of the meaning and possible ambiguities of every phrase he sings; but his voice is not a classic Verdi baritone...The only principal to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th September 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bellini: Norma
Live at the Metropolitan Opera, 2017
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Joyce DiDonato (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso), Michelle Bradley (Clotilde), Adam Diegel (Flavio)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Rizzi, Sir David McVicar
Radvanovsky is the international Norma of choice at the moment and she sings ‘big’, lacking perhaps the legato that Bellini’s long-limbed melodies demand,. But Joyce DiDonato, making her debut... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Vidéo
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Joseph Calleja - Verdi RecommendedJoseph Calleja (tenor), Vittorio Vitelli (baritone), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ramón Tebar
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... — More…
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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
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Bellini: Norma
Live at the Metropolitan Opera, 2017
Sondra Radvanovsky (Norma), Joyce DiDonato (Adalgisa), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Matthew Rose (Oroveso), Michelle Bradley (Clotilde), Adam Diegel (Flavio)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Rizzi, Sir David McVicar
Radvanovsky is the international Norma of choice at the moment and she sings ‘big’, lacking perhaps the legato that Bellini’s long-limbed melodies demand,. But Joyce DiDonato, making her debut... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Vidéo
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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Marina Poplavskaya (Amelia Grimaldi/Maria Boccanegra), Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacope Fiesco), Jonathan Summers (Paolo Albiani), Lukas Jakobski (Piero)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
The result is far more than a vanity project...overall [Domingo] makes a remarkably moving and complex creation out of it...Summers is worn but malevolent in his sharply etched portrayal of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, DVD of the Month
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Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Anna Netrebko (Giulietta), Elina Garanca (Romeo), Joseph Calleja (Tebaldo), Robert Gleadow (Lorenzo) & Tiziano Bracci (Capellio)
Wiener Singakademie & Wiener Symphoniker, Fabio Luisi
Garanca is the best reason for cherishing this fine recording. There isn't a lyric mezzo-soprano who can currently hold a candle to the Latvian in this repertoire. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Opera
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Eternamente (The Verismo Album)
Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Joseph Calleja (tenor), Richard Novak (bass)
PFK - Prague Philharmonia, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Emmanuel Villaume
The soprano can be heard at her steadiest in Donaudy's famous song 'O del mio amato bene', but her artistry is at its most intriguing in Refice's 1935 'Ombra di nube', shaped here in a masterly... — More…
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Joseph Calleja - Tenor Arias Operatic arias by Verdi, Donizetti, Cilea & Puccini
Joseph Calleja (tenor)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
Calleja is said to have an interest in the great tenors of the past and that must be what inspires the bel canto elegance of his singing... inflecting the music with light and shade, catching... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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Joseph Calleja: The Maltese Tenor Joseph Calleja (tenor)
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marco Armiliato
The two Mefistofele arias receive near-ideal performances, the Pearl Fishers romance (one of two items in which soprano duties are nicely undertaken by Aleksandra Kurzak) is enchanting, and... — More…
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Opera, September 2011, Recording of the Month
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