With love from Malta

Joseph Calleja's January – July 2020 schedule included two operas at the Metropolitan Opera, an appearance with the American Friends of Grange Park Opera in New York and then Gioconda at the Theatre in the Woods. The pandemic put a sharp halt to all of that. However, Joseph is booked with Grange Park Opera for 2022 for the Gioconda that was created for the Lost Season. Around the golden swirls of St John’s Cathedral in Valletta, Malta, was where Joseph’s singing life began. Aged 19, Calleja made his opera début as Macduff Macbeth at the Astra Theatre, Malta. In 2002 he made his Royal Opera début as the Duke of Mantua Rigoletto. Other recent highlights include Cavaradossi Tosca (Aix en Provence), title characters in new productions of Faust and Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Metropolitan Opera), and Duca Rigoletto (Vienna State Opera).