Bass singer William Guanbo Su: "You have to read the notes on a page, so if you read a whole opera, you're not only reading the singing text, you're also reading the notes. With reading the notes, it's almost as if you're reading another language, it just happens to be that the language has tones, (like Chinese) When you are singing, you're actually very spoilt because you have singing text while you have a melody that is almost like a text as well. So there's two lines going on at once and somehow you bring them together."

Hear more about how William went from being an Olympic swimmer to becoming an Opera singer and why he enjoys teaching as well.

https://www.houstongrandopera.org/hgo-studio/studio-artists-and-faculty/william-guanbo-su/

https://schmopera.com/scene/people/william-guanbo-su/