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Calleja as Zephoris in Adam's Si j'etais roi opposite Iwona Hossa as Néméa, the Wexford Festival 2000. Photo: Derek Speirs.
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"In Joseph Calleja, the young Maltese star tenor, we had a man on stage who can leave even hard-bitten listeners with tears in their eyes. Excitedly and with youthful naïveté, he walks out on the platform, nothing in Calleja’s arsenal is more effective than a baffling magic trick. And then off he goes, right into L’elisir d’amore “Una furtiva lagrima”, a slight smokiness in the lower register, gentle frost in the middle range, pure fire on the top. Vocal drama from a distant era, like we can hear on the old shellac recordings featuring the voices of the greatest of the great: Caruso, Gigli…"
Ulrich Amling, Der Tagesspiegel, August 2005
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