Presto Disc of the Week
2nd February 2018

Joseph Calleja (tenor), Vittorio Vitelli (baritone), Angela Gheorghiu (soprano)

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ramón Tebar

Aarioita Verdin oopperoista.

"Calleja is already supremely alive to [Otello's] vulnerability and volatility, and his golden tone has now darkened to a gleaming bronze which cleaves through the heavy orchestration in the two great monologues with easy clarity. Stylistically and temperamentally, he seems completely at home in this repertoire, never afraid to add faintly old-school expressive effects, though nothing ever seems contrived or histrionic." - Presto Classical 2nd February 2018