Joseph Calleja

Published: Aug. 29, 2017, 2:36 a.m.

\xa0 I was waiting once at the Met stage

\xa0 door after a Macbeth. Out comes this

big guy who looked at me and asked,

"Are you Charlie Handelman?" I said

"Yes." He gave me a big hug and\xa0

said,"You are more famous than

me!"\xa0 What a fun guy!!!!!!!!!!

\xa0Joe and I have discussed a kind of

"old-fashioned vibrato," which to\xa0

me is\xa0 "affectionate."