Jonathan Lemalu

Jonathan Lemalu

Jonathan Lemalu

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Butterworth: Love Blows As the Wind Blows: IV. On the Way to Kew
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Butterworth: Love Blows As the Wind Blows: III. Fill a Glass With Golden Wine
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Butterworth: Love Blows As the Wind Blows: II. Life in Her Creaking Shoes
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Butterworth: Love Blows As the Wind Blows: I. In the Year That's Come and Gone
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Barber: Dover Beach, Op. 3

Albums

  • Jonathan Lemalu: Song recital

    Jul 2008 • 18 songs

  • Brahms, Schubert, Fauré & Finzi: Songs
  • Opera Arias

    Apr 2005 • 13 songs

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Jonathan Lemalu

Biography

Bass-baritone Jonathan Fa'afetai Lemalu is touted as the most significant singer to come from New Zealand since Kiri Te Kanawa. Born to Samoan parents, he began singing as a boy chorister at age nine, and studied both music and law at the University of Otago, from which he graduated in 1999. The previous year he had won the Mobil Song Quest and made his professional opera debut as Colline in La bohème at what was then called the National Opera of Wellington (now NBR New Zealand Opera). He focused more strongly on music after receiving his law degree, studying under Vera Rozsa ...
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