Maria and Joseph Calleja

Following a year in the Czech Republic, Maria Calleja has been blogging and having a great time in Australia. Today she flies back to Malta to spend time with her family before she goes to Brussels in January for a stage at DHL. Her many international friends have blogs as well.
Maria's brother Joseph is the well known tenor who released his debut album Tenor Arias earlier this year:

For someone who had, until then, thought that music consisted of the likes of Iron Maiden (for those unaware of them: this is a British heavy metal band), it was quite a revelation that another kind of music existed that was highly pleasurable, whether he had the singing technique for it or not.
The turning point came when young Joseph, during a visit to his aunt in the UK, borrowed her CD Essential Pavarotti 2 and started singing Pavarotti arias. His aunt was so impressed with his voice that she urged the fifteen-year-old to become a professional singer. Upon his return to Malta, Calleja auditioned for the local opera choir there and was instantly hired as Second Tenor.


Read his profile and hear him sing (MP3 file) "Ella mi fu rapita!" from Verdi's Rigoletto (2nd Act): Joseph Calleja

As you listen read the original text in Italian with an English translation.