Calleja voted world’s best opera singer… for now

The poll is conducted by Italian website gradisco.net, which purports to provide a global indication of popular taste in a wide variety of areas, focusing primarily on music.

Calleja, who was languishing in sixth place until late yesterday evening, enjoyed a surge in online voting today to shoot up to number one with (at the time of writing) 2,384 votes.

Other high-placed opera singers include Placido Domingo, Jonas Kaufmann, Roberto Alagna and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

Voting remains open. The poll can be accessed here.