Grammy Award winning New Zealand born bass-baritone Jonathan Lemalu (he’s sung Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni for OA in Sydney) has had to meet a new challenge – that of learning a libretto in Chinese. He talks about it in this blog.
(The Grammy Award was in 2010 for Best Opera Recording Billy Budd)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/mar/26/learning-to-sing-chinese-songs
