he have forgiven a fiance who cheated on him with his best friend? "No. But then, today we're reluctant to pass judgment on other people's behaviour. As long as it's legal!" Playing funny can easily fall flat, which is why Dundas does not attempt it. "Jim's take on Cos, with which I agree, is that because of the absurdity of the situation, the straighter you play it the funnier it is." This July, Dundas will be reprising another Mozart role when he performs Don Giovanni in Michael Gow's new production for Oz Opera . He made his debut in the role for Victorian Opera in 2009. "At the time I was acutely aware that I didn't want to be the 26-year-old who tried to perform Don Giovanni and didn't quite succeed. I gave it everything I had -- it took me a year to learn the role in the way that I wanted to." Samuel Dundas in The Merry Widow 2011 The feed-back was very positive, but having performed Masetto for OA's mainstage production last year, Dundas has gained a new perspective on the Don. "To have been able sing Masetto with Teddy Tahu Rhodes as Don Giovanni, to have been able to observe him so closely, was fascinating. I learned a lot from that." Like Rhodes, Dundas did not grow up thinking that he'd be an opera singer. But when as a teenager he started singing around the house, his mother suggested lessons. "I was in Year 9 and