Joseph Calleja – the tenor who is Malta's national treasure

Joseph Calleja's graceful tenor harks back to the great voices of the past. But he takes the comparisons with Pavarotti in his strideIt's a sweltering July night in Floriana, Malta. Malta's high society, young and old, are in their Sunday best, several thousand seated facing a stage in an outdoor square, hundreds more lining the street running its length, craning for the best views of the evening's performers, Ronan Keating, Neapolitan singing star Gigli d'Alessio and the closest the small Medi...

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