Only one lyric tenor on the scene today has the honeyed tone and ingratiating style to make comparisons to Pavarotti and Gigli seems serious, and it is Calleja, the man from Malta, who... is now maturing into an artist of the first rank." - New Yorker
Concert at Royal Festival Hall South Bank Centre
Joseph Calleja
Performers
Philharmonia OrchestraAndrew Greenwood conductor
Joseph Calleja tenor
Repertoire
Verdi: Overture, Nabucco; Celeste Aida from Aida; O figli, o figli miei! from Macbeth; Ah, la paterna mano (Macduff's aria) from Macbeth; Ballet Music from Macbeth, Act 3; Oh! fede negar - Quando le sere al placido from Luisa Miller; Ah, si ben mio from Il TrovatoreInterval
Berlioz: Royal Hunt and Storm from Les Troyens
Jules Massenet: Pourquoi me reveiller from Werther
Bizet: Flower Song from Carmen
Puccini: Preludio sinfonico
Francesco Cilea: E la solita storia del pastore from L'arlesiana
Puccini: E lucevan le stelle from Tosca
Offenbach: Il était une fois à la cour d'Eisenach from The Tales of Hoffmann