JOSEPH COLLEJA

OPÉRA NATIONAL DU CAPITOLE, Place du Capitole

Born in Malta in 1978, he discovers opera at thirteen thanks to the film Le Grand Caruso, unaware that he would later win Milan’s Caruso Competition. He signs with Decca at twenty-five and makes his mark on the world’s greatest stages. From the Met to Covent Garden, Vienna to Bastille, he excels in Mantuan Duke, Alfredo, Rodolfo, Cavaradossi, Hoffmann or Faust, roles he embodies with infectious fervor. For his first recital at the Capitole, he blends Slavonic melancholy with Italian ardor... Beside him stands the French pianist Sarah Tysman, active in Vienna and Berlin, who embarks on…