Jonathan Lemalu

Bass-baritone Jonathan Fa’afetai Lemalu is touted as the utmost significant vocalist to result from New Zealand since Kiri Te Kanawa. Blessed to Samoan parents, he started singing being a guy chorister at age group nine, and examined both music and laws at the School of Otago, that he graduated in 1999. The prior year he previously gained the Mobil Melody Quest and produced his professional opera debut as Colline in La bohème at that which was after that called the Country wide Opera of Wellington (today NBR New Zealand Opera). He concentrated more highly on music after getting his law level, learning under Vera Rozsa at London’s Royal University of Music from 1999 to 2002, and arriving away using the college’s silver medal. It had been during this time period that he started appearing being a melody recitalist around London and environs, aswell such as small-time opera productions that even so gathered critical see; he was praised for his charismatic stage existence and his wealthy, penetrating tone of voice. By 2005 he was offering recitals throughout European countries, and performing the function of Masetto in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in the Metropolitan Opera and Jack port Wallace in Puccini’s La fanciulla del Western at Covent Backyard. His debut documenting for EMI in 2001 was well praised; EMI authorized him to a special contract and adopted up with a far more extremely publicized recital of opera arias in early 2005.