Joseph Calleja News

Today (March 15) in live streaming: Julius Caesar continues with Patrick Page, the 31st Annual Kleban Prize for Musical Theatre, and more!

Today's top stories: Jagged Little Pill wins the Best Musical Theater Album Grammy Award, Emily Skinner in concert with Seth Rudetsky, two new trailers for In The Heights, and more!

WQXR and the Metropolitan Opera today announced a third season of the critically acclaimed opera podcast Aria Code, hailed by The New Yorker as “elegantly constructed [and] effortlessly listenable.”

The Met has announced a special viewers’ choice lineup for an upcoming week of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, the company’s ongoing series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the its website during the coronavirus closure.

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced additional programs to add to the variety of offerings in its reimagined 2020/21 Season. These include a concert honoring Sir Andrew Davis; a new approach to the annual Rising Stars in Concert by The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Ensemble and more.

WQXR and the Metropolitan Opera today announced a third season of the opera podcast Aria Code. Hosted by MacArthur Fellow and Grammy Award–winning musician Rhiannon Giddens, Aria Code brings to life the human experience at the heart of opera through storytelling, interviews, and stellar performances from the Metropolitan Opera’s treasured archives.

Opera Naples has announced that it raised $542,000 at its gala Bal a Paris. The gala took place on Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at Arthrex One.

Soprano Sonya Yoncheva will perform a live concert from the Schussenried Cloister in southwest Germany as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. The program features a tour-de-force of arias from Verdi’s Aida and Il Trovatore; Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, and the rarely performed Le Villi; Dvořák’s Rusalka; and Handel’s Rinaldo.

Russian soprano Anna Netrebko will perform a live concert on Saturday, February 6, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Spanish Riding School in Vienna, Austria, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series.

Today (January 20) in live streaming: an Inauguration Day special with the Chaos Twins and more!

The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, a free series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on the company's website during the coronavirus closure. The schedule includes a week of Leading Ladies: Opera’s Greatest Heroines and an Antiheroes Week.

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Piotr Beczała will perform a live concert on Saturday, January 23, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Stadthalle in Wuppertal, Germany, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series.

Carly Paoli is a Classical Brit-nominated soprano. She will celebrate Christmas this year in TV special Christmas At The Castle – Carly Paoli and Friends, due to air on Sky Arts on 23 December.

Today (December 3) in live streaming: John Lloyd Young and Ana Gasteyer visit Backstage Live, Time Stands Still reunion reading, and so much more!

Twenty years after the launch of Rosenblatt Recitals and three years after the final concert, the series has returned in digital form to present a season of eight themed programmes - Rosenblatt Recitals at Home, in aid of Target Ovarian Cancer.

Today (November 27) in live streaming: pets takeover at Stars in the House, Lea Salonga in concert, and so much more!

Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel will perform a holiday program with special musical guests, on Saturday, December 12, at 7:00pm CET/1:00pm ET, from the historic Brecon Cathedral in his native Wales, as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert pay-per-view series.

Opera Naples has announced a reimagined season under the stars. The multi-day inaugural Opera Naples Festival will feature three acclaimed opera performances featuring world-renowned artists at Baker Park, March 10-13, 2021. All performances are at 7 p.m.

Tenors Andrea Bocelli and Joseph Calleja reunited, spending time together while Bocelli is in Malta to film his next project. While together, the pair sang an impromptu rendition of Ed Sheeran and Bocelli's song 'Perfect Symphony' over dinner. The magical moment was captured on camera and posted to Calleja's Facebook page!

The Metropolitan Opera announced plans today to live-stream a pay-per-view New Year's Eve Gala, featuring performances by Met stars Angel Blue, Javier Camarena, Matthew Polenzani, and Pretty Yende, from the Parktheater, a stunning example of neo-Baroque architecture situated in Augsburg, Germany.