Pene Pati Pene Pati, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine & Emmanuel Villaume

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Rigoletto, Act 2:
• 1Verdi: Rigoletto, Act 2: "Ella mi fu rapita..." (Duca)02:24
• 2Verdi: Rigoletto, Act 2: "Parmi veder le lagrime..." (Duca)02:47
• 3Verdi: Rigoletto, Act 2: "Possente amor" (Duca, Chorus)03:16
• Rigoletto, Act 3:
• 4Verdi: Rigoletto, Act 3: "La donna è mobile" (Duca)02:16
• Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893): Roméo et Juliette, Act 2:
• 5Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, Act 2: "L’Amour!..." (Romeo)01:07
• 6Gounod: Roméo et Juliette, Act 2: "Ah! Lève-toi soleil" (Romeo)03:17
• Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868): Guillaume Tell, Act 4:
• 7Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Act 4: "Ne m'abandonne pas, espoir de la vengeance!" (Arnold)03:31
• 8Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Act 4: "Asile héréditaire..." (Arnold, Chorus)05:53
• 9Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Act 4: "Amis, amis" (Arnold, Chorus)03:15
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848): L'elisir d'amore, Act 2:
• 10Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore, Act 2: "Una furtiva lagrima" (Nemorino)04:17
• Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864): Les Huguenots, Act 1:
• 11Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots, Act 1: "Non loin des vieilles tours..." (Raoul)01:04
• 12Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots, Act 1: "Ah, quel spectacle enchanteur..." (Raoul)01:17
• 13Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots, Act 1: "Plus blanche que la blanche hermine" (Raoul, Chorus)03:26
• Giuseppe Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano, Act 1:
• 14Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano, Act 1: "O magnanima e prima delle città lombarde..." (Arrigo)01:21
• 15Verdi: La battaglia di Legnano, Act 1: "La pia materna mano" (Arrigo)02:35
• Gioacchino Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon, Act 2:
• 16Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon, Act 2: "Vous avez entendu..." (Pharaon)01:38
• 17Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon, Act 2: "Moment fatal!" (Aménophis, Pharaon)06:53
• Charles Gounod: Polyeucte, Act 4:
• 18Gounod: Polyeucte, Act 4: "Source délicieuse" (Polyeucte)05:38
• Gaetano Donizetti: Roberto Devereux, Act 3:
• 19Donizetti: Roberto Devereux, Act 3: "Ed ancor la tremenda porta..." (Roberto)04:38
• 20Donizetti: Roberto Devereux, Act 3: "Come un spirto angelico..." (Roberto, Chorus)04:02
• 21Donizetti: Roberto Devereux, Act 3: "Bagnato il sen di lagrime" (Roberto, Chorus)02:23
• Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912): Manon, Act 2:
• 22Massenet: Manon, Act 2: "Instant charmant, où la crainte fait trêve..." (Des Grieux)00:40
• 23Massenet: Manon, Act 2: "En fermant les yeux" (Des Grieux)02:51
• Giacomo Meyerbeer: L'Étoile du Nord, Act 3:
• 24Meyerbeer: L'Étoile du Nord, Act 3: "Quel trouble affreux" (Danilowitz)03:15
• Benjamin Godard (1849 - 1895): Jocelyn, Op. 100, Act 2:
• 25Godard: Jocelyn, Op. 100, Act 2: "Cachés dans cet asile" (Jocelyn)05:14
• Total Runtime01:18:58

Info for Pene Pati

For his debut on Warner Classics, Samoan tenor Pene Pati matches favourite showpiece arias with rarer operatic gems in a programme of Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Gounod and Benjamin Godard. Pati has been called “a revelation … stunning for his generosity of voice, top notes of apparently invincible power, and alluring timbre,“ (Forum Opéra) and praised for his “gleaming, sensuous stream of sound” (San Francisco Chronicle). A singer of glowing lyricism who establishes an immediate rapport with his audience, Pati hopes that the album will leave listeners with a sense of “warmth, tenderness, and the sincerity of storytelling. To me, this is the essence of opera and the reason why I sing.” He is joined by conductor Emmanuel Villaume and the Orchestre national Bordeaux Aquitaine.

“Pene Pati is in the great tradition of lyric tenors. First and foremost, there is the beauty and warmth of his voice, which ascends with apparent ease to the proverbial top C, but there is also his elegance and style in both Italian and French opera – and his sunny, expansive personality, which wins the public’s heart as soon as he walks on stage. Pene has embarked on a tremendous career, and all of us at Warner Classics are looking forward to working with him for many years,” said President of Warner Classics and Erato Alain Lanceron.

Pati is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s Adler Program where, under Music Director Nicola Luisotti, he made an acclaimed debut in the role of Duca di Mantua in Verdi’s “Rigoletto” in 2017. The tenor has further shown promise, and has subsequently performed at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, Opéra national de Paris, and the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Pati is slated to make his big Wiener Staatsoper debut in the role of Lord Riccardo Percy in Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” in February 2022 alongside Diana Damrau, Erwin Schrott, and Ekaterina Semenchuk. The tenor is also scheduled to appear at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Teatro San Carlo, San Diego Opera, and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, among others.

Pene Pati, tenor
Mirco Palazzi, bass-baritone (tracks 16, 17)
Chœur de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux(tracks 3, 9, 13, 21)
Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
Emmanuel Villaume, conductor

Pene Pati
Samoan tenor Pene Pati is a graduate of San Francisco Opera’s Adler Program where, under Music Director Nicola Luisotti, he made an acclaimed 2017 debut as Il Duca di Mantova in Verdi’s Rigoletto, and has subsequently been hailed ​‘the most exceptional tenor discovery of the last decade’ (Opéra-Online) following his first performances as Percy in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena at Opéra national de Bordeaux in the 2018/2019 season. Subsequent productions of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at San Francisco Opera and Opéra national de Bordeaux as well as Alfredo in Verdi’s La traviata at Moscow’s historic Bolshoi Theatre have secured Pati’s position as one of the most sought-after tenors of his day.

In the upcoming season, Pati debuts at Opéra National de Paris (L’Elisir d’amore), Teatro San Carlo di Napoli (Lucia di Lammermoor), Wiener Staatsoper (Anna Bolena), San Diego Opera (Roméo et Juliette), Staatsoper Berlin (La traviata) and Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (Moïse et Pharaon). In concert, he adds Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde to his repertoire in St Pölten under Hans Graf, joins The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst in concert performances of Otello, and appears at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées as part of Les Grands Voix in Massenet’s Thaïs with l’Orchestre National de France and Pierre Bleuse.

Pene Pati is an exclusive recording artist for Warner Classics. His self-titled debut album of Italian and French arias, recorded with Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine under Emmanuel Villaume, is due for release in March 2022.

In the formative years of his career, Pati enjoyed a string of high-profile competition successes taking the coveted Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge ​‘Bel Canto’ Award (2012), both Second Prize and Audience Prize at Operalia (2015), and Second Prize at Neue Stimmen (2015). As First Prize winner at the Montserrat Caballé International Aria Competition (2014), Pati joined a special celebratory concert to celebrate the life of the late, great soprano at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2019, and was part of an all-star line-up of soloists performing at the 2017 Richard Tucker Gala at New York’s Carnegie Hall.

Since 2012, Pene Pati has enjoyed huge commercial success as part of Sol3 Mio, a popular trio formed together with his tenor brother and baritone cousin. Their first album, released on Decca Classics, achieved 8x platinum sales in New Zealand and they continue to perform concerts together to sold-out stadiums whenever solo schedules permit.

Booklet for Pene Pati