Pene Pati

Pene Pati is revered for his warm and winning personality that has endeared him to both audience and critics around the world. The first Samoan tenor to perform on Europe’s top stages, Pati boasts exceptional versatility in a broad palette of roles from Mozart to Massenet. His self-titled debut album of Italian and French arias earned him the Opus Klassik newcomer of the year award, best male singer at the Opera Critics’ Awards and Opera Magazine readers’ award at the International Opera Awards. An exclusive recording artist for Warner Classics, his second album, "Nessun Dorma," came out in September 2024.

Pati’s 2024-25 season opened with a return to Opéra national de Paris to debut as Gounod’s Faust, and continued with two highly anticipated debuts at the Royal Ballet and Opera as Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Bohème under Speranza Scappucci, and at the Metropolitan Opera as Duca in Verdi’s Rigoletto. Rodolfo marked important house debuts at Bayerische Staatsoper, Lyric Opera of Chicago, his return to San Francisco Opera, and in concert version with ​L'orchestre de Chambre de Genève. He further expanded his repertoire with first performances as Massenet’s Werther. At Osterfestspiele Salzburg, Pati sang Mendelssohn’s Elias under the baton of Maxim Emelyanychev. With Luzerner Sinfonieorchester and Michael Sanderling, he performed and recorded both Mozart’s Requiem and Fazil Say’s world premiere, Mozart ve Mevlana. In addition to gala concerts in Berlin, Paris and Istanbul, he performed in recital at Opéra national de Bordeaux with pianist Mathieu Pordoy, and with Amina Edris as part of Les Sommets de la Voix recital series in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. Over the summer, Pati returned to the Festival d’Aix to debut another French role, Nadir in Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles, before performing in Mozart’s Mitridate at the Salzburger Festspiele. He ends his season with his debut at the Arena di Verona in Verdi’s Rigoletto.

Pati headlined the 2024 Concert de Paris, France’s annual Bastille Day concert, and opened San Francisco Opera’s Centennial Season under music director Eun Sun Kim. His sold-out Gala concert at Prague’s Rudolfinum with Prague Philharmonia and Łukasz Borowicz was recorded and broadcast via Medici.tv. In previous seasons Pati has performed Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with both Hans Graf and Tonkünstler Orchester and Kazuki Yamada and Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, as well as Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Mikko Franck and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.