Joseph Calleja
& Lada Bočková

Joseph Calleja – tenor
Lada Bočková – soprano
Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic
Rastislav Štúr – conductor

The famous tenor Joseph Calleja is often compared to "the legendary singers such as Jussi Björling, Beniamino Gigli and Enrico Caruso" (Associated Press). Native of Malta, he made his opera debut at the age of 19 in Malta in 1997. A year later, he won the Enrico Caruso Competition in Milan and in 1999 he won the Placido Domingo Operália. Since then, he has been a regular guest at prestigious opera houses, including the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, the Chicago Lyric Opera, London's Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera and Munich, etc. Since his Prague debut in 2013, he has visited Prague, which he has fallen in love with, several times at the invitation of the Nachtigall Artists Agency. Each time he came with a special guest.

This time, his stage partner will be soprano Lada Bočková. A JAMU Brno graduate, she has been a member of the Theater Bonn ensemble in Germany since the 2020/21 season, where she will play the Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera, directed by Sir David Pountney, Nerone in Handel's Agrippina and Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro; in the same role she will also make her debut at the Prague National Theatre.

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RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO (1857–1919)
Mattinata
Joseph Calleja

PAOLO TOSTI (1846–1916)
A vuchella
Joseph Calleja & Lada Bočková

VINCENZO DE CRESCENZO (1915–1987)
Rondine al nido
Joseph Calleja

GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858–1924)
Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Magda)
La Rondine, Act I
Lada Bočková

GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813–1901)
Parigi, o cara/o noi lasceremo (Alfredo & Violetta)
La traviata, Act III
Joseph Calleja & Lada Bočková

ANTONIN DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)
1. Rusalka, Polonaise
Act II

2. Vidino divná, přesladká (Prince)
Rusalka, Act I
Joseph Calleja

3. Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
Rusalka, Act I
Lada Bočková

4. Miláčku, znáš mne, znáš? (Rusalka & Prince)
Rusalka, Act III
Lada Bočková & Joseph Calleja

Interval
 

ALFRED NEWMAN (1900–1970)
Charmaine
What Prince Glory
Joseph Calleja

RICHARD RODGERS (1902–1979) & OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II (1895–1960)
Edelweiss
Joseph Calleja

HENRY MANCINI (1924–1994))
Moon River
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Joseph Calleja

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918–1990)
1. I feel pretty (Maria)
West Side Story, Act II
Lada Bočková

2. Maria (Tony)
West Side Story, Act I
Joseph Calleja

3. Tonight (Maria & Tony)
West Side Story, Act I
Lada Bočková & Joseph Calleja

Program is subject to change