Superstar tenor Joseph Calleja comes to Singapore
THE MALTESE TENOR: JOSEPH CALLEJA
Superstar tenor Joseph Calleja joins the Singapore Symphony Orchestra for a one-off concert, on 10 January 2020. Conducted by David Giménez Carreras, the concert will include arias from much-loved operas by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi and many more.
Among the programme's highlights are "E lucevan le stelle" from Puccini's Tosca and "Una furtiva lagrima" from Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore.
Blessed with a golden-age voice that routinely inspires comparisons to “legendary singers from earlier eras: Jussi Björling, Beniamino Gigli, even Enrico Caruso” (Associated Press), Maltese-born Joseph Calleja has quickly become one of the most acclaimed and sought-after tenors today.
New Yorker magazine said: “Only one lyric tenor on the scene today has the honeyed tone and ingratiating style to make comparisons to Pavarotti and Gigli seem serious, and it is Calleja.”
Calleja was only 19 when he made his operatic debut as Macduff in Verdi’s Macbeth at the Astra Theatre in Malta, shortly before winning an award in the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition that launched his international career. He went on to win the 1998 Caruso Competition in Milan and was a prize winner in Plácido Domingo’s Operalia in 1999, the year of his US debut at the Spoleto Festival. Since then Calleja has gone on to appear with the world’s great opera companies including The Royal Opera (UK), the Hamburg State Opera and the Vienna State Opera.
The Maltese Tenor: Joseph Calleja
David Giménez, conductor / Joseph Calleja, tenor / Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Fri / 10 Jan 20 / 7.30pm
Esplanade Concert Hall
Blessed with a golden-age voice to match the great lyric tenors of legend and heaped with praise from all over the world, Maltese-born superstar Joseph Calleja arrives in Singapore for a grand evening of classic arias. Get ready to soar on song with this multi-award-winning singer, whose “blazing stage presence could light a thousand lamps.” (The Independent).
FeaturingDavid Giménez, conductor / Joseph Calleja, tenor / Singapore Symphony Orchestra
ProgrammeOverture to The Marriage of Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart) |
|---|---|
"Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön" from The Magic Flute | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Mozart) |
"Una furtive lagrima" from L’elisir d’amore | Gaetano Donizetti (Donizetti) |
Overture to Nabucco | Giuseppe Verdi (Verdi) |
"Questa o quella" from Rigoletto | Giuseppe Verdi (Verdi) |
"Pourquoi me réveiller?" from Werther | Jules Massenet (Massenet) |
Intermezzo from L'Amico Fritz | Pietro Mascagni (Mascagni) |
"E lucevan le stelle" from Tosca | Giacomo Puccini (Puccini) |
Waltz No. 2 | Dmitri Shostakovich (Shostakovich) |
Ideale | Paolo Tosti (Tosti) |
'A vucchella | Paolo Tosti (Tosti) |
Il-Kebbies tal-Fanali | Joseph Vella |
Intermezzo from La Boda de Luis Alonso | Gerónimo Giménez (Giménez) |
Mattinata | Ruggero Leoncavallo (Leoncavallo) |
*before booking fees: $1 for tickets $20 and below, $3 for tickets $20.01 to $40, $4 for tickets above $40.
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