But as an unabashed opera nerd, I can tell you that the sound of the "golden age" is alive in the voice of tenor Joseph Calleja. He's a young singer with an old-school sensibility, and he's just ...

Joseph Calleja, 26, the rap performer known as Joe C. who recorded and toured with Kid Rock, the flashy Detroit musician. Calleja had suffered since childhood with celiac disease, and as a result ...

New York—"Every major singer, including the modern ones, all had this fast vibrato when they were young," said tenor Joseph Calleja over lunch recently, referring to the rapid vibration that is ...

"Let's be frank: . . . To be a good actor, 50 percent is looking the part. It would be very hard to portray a romantic poet when you're 300 pounds big." Calleja loves to talk about the influences ...

Joseph Calleja's voice reminds many of the golden-age tenors of the past. Opera fanatics often trot out the tired old complaint about how "they don't make 'em like they used to" while pining for ...