Joseph Calleja
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Birthplace:
Attard, Malta
Prizes:
Winner of the Caruso Competition (1998), Winner of the Plácido Domingo Operalia Competition (1999), Winner of the Gramophone Award “Artist of the Year” (2012), Winner of the International Opera Awards “Readers Award” (2014), Winner of the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition
Important Parts:
Pollione (Norma), Cavaradossi (Tosca), Federico (L’arlesiana), Faust (Faust), Faust (Mefistofele), Don José (Carmen), Macduff (Macbeth), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Nadir (Les Pêcheurs des Perles), Leicester (Maria Stuarda), Rodolfo (La Bohème), Gabriele Adorno (Simon Boccanegra), Nicias (Thaïs), Elvin (La somnambula), Arturo (I puritani), Alfredo (La Traviata), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Tebaldo (I Capuleti e i Montecchi), Roméo (Roméo et Juliette), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Fenton (Falstaff), Edoardo di Sanval (Un giorno di regno), Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor), Hoffmann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Duca di Mantova (Rigoletto), Riccardo (Un ballo in maschera), et al.
Stages:
Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra national de Paris, Opera de Monte-Carlo, Grange Park Oper, Wiener Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Washington Opera, Salzburger Festspiele, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Neues Nationaltheater Tokio, Opernhaus Zürich, Grand Teatre de Liceu, Rossini Opera Festival Pesaro, Semperoper Dresden, Bregenzer Festspiele, Opéra National du Rhin, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Barrie Kosky, Jürgen Rose, Lina Wertmüller, David McVicar, Luc Bondy, Roland Schwab, Martin Kušej, Nicolas Joël, Jonathan Kent, William Relton, Rob Ashford, Michael Mayer, Àlex Ollé, Valentina Carrasco, Barrie Kosky, Giancarlo del Monaco, Bartlett Sher, Lindy Hume, Bodo Busse, John Copley, Mary Zimmerman, Rolando Villazón, Filippo Sanjust, Árpád Schilling, Günter Krämer, Richard Jones, Franco Zeffirelli, Arin Arbus, Peter Stein, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Carlo Rizzi, Ivor Bolton, Riccardo Chailly, Andrea Battistoni, Dan Ettinger, Daniele Callegari, Carlo Rizzi, Marco Armiliato, Ramon Tebar, Omer Meir Wellber, Laurent Campellone, Paolo Arrivabeni, Michele Mariotti, Gianluca Marcianò, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Harry Bicket, Ainārs Rubikis, Pier Giorgio Morandi, Ivan Repušić, Antonio Pappano, Tugan Sokhiev, Constantinos Carydis, James Levine, Emmanuel Villaume, John Wilson, Stefano Ranzani, Enrique Mazzola, Frédéric Chaslin, Maurizio Benini, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Daniel Oren, Fabio Luisi, Daniele Rustioni, Constantin Trinks, Massimo Zanetti, Alain Altinoglu, Paolo Carignani, et al.
