‘Superman’ Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti’s love for wife’s spring rolls – Chinese opera singer Tian Haojiang sprinkles vignettes of life onstage and off in book of essays

• Luciano Pavarotti loved Tian’s wife’s spring rolls, and gave him an affectionate nickname. As for Placido Domingo, the Chinese singer calls him ‘Superman’
• In a set of Chinese-language essays – he won’t translate them to spare his friends’ blushes – bass baritone Tian depicts life on the professional opera circuit