| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 6-Apr-2013 National Concert Hall | Drama at Joseph Calleja's concert in Dublin |
 There was more than a little drama at Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja’s sold-out concert recital in Dublin’s National Concert Hall this evening. He was joined by Irish soprano Claudia Boyle and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Proinnsías Ó Duinn. Predictability was the order of the day in the choice of programme: familiar arias and duets from the Italian and French operas with a complementary sprinkling of overtures and intermezzi for the orchestra. This was as close one gets to popular classical music: songs that might feature on the classical charts.Read full review... | |
| 2-Mar-2013 Oslo Opera House, Main Stage | Easter in Italy: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at the Norwegian National Opera |
 Nothing says “Happy Easter” like a bit of alcohol-fuelled murder on the church steps, right? With their new double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, the Norwegian National Opera certainly seems to think so!
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| 5-Jan-2013 City Hall Concert Hall | New Year double bill in Hong Kong: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci |
 120 years after the Metropolitan Opera in New York paired Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci in a single performance, the tradition of staging these representative works of verismo opera in a double bill continued this weekend with a production under the direction of Lo Kingman, Hong Kong’s home-grown doyen of opera.
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| 8-Oct-2012 Music Centre / Musiikkitalo: Camerata Hall | Joseph Calleja with the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in Helsinki |
 Tenor Joseph Calleja, conductor Giuliano Carella and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra presented an interesting choice of repertoire on Monday. The composers were celebrated Italian and French masters of opera, and the programme alternated between overtures for orchestra and arias starring Calleja. Already at this point an element of balance was detectable: the alternation between orchestra-only and orchestra-and-soloist pieces suggested that they played an equally important role.
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