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Joseph Calleja reflects on his career, his blessings, his love to bring joy to people, and his new Verdi album.

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Certainly acknowledged.

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Grimsley & Bybee.jpg "As an audience member you go for the singing, but for the singer it becomes about the singing because of all those other things. When somebody means what they say and it’s elevated by that sense of the voice and the music, it can’t be beat – the art form, the dram...

I get why projections appeal so much to directors. They allow settings to be completely transformed quickly. They can move, unlike painted walls. They can show a characters’ thoughts or dreams without awkward appearances by three-dimensional dancers or ghosts. They also have inherent limitations. T...

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Discussion for the focus feature "Five Operas Worth Re-Discovering". "Quality certainly isn’t the only criterion that decides whether a work of art survives or not: luck and a few other rather aleatory factors seem to play a major role. In today’s standard repertoires we can find work...