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

• Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): Turandot, Act 3:
• 1Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: "Nessun dorma!" (Calaf, Coro)03:43
• Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893): Faust, Act 3:
• 2Gounod: Faust, Act 3: Cavatine. "Salut ! Demeure chaste et pure" (Faust)04:45
• 3Gounod: Faust, Act 3: Cabalette. "Et toi, malheureux Faust" - "C'est l'enfer qui t'envoie" (Faust)03:17
• Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912): Manon, Act 3:
• 4Massenet: Manon, Act 3: "Je suis seul !" - "Ah ! Fuyez, douce image" (Des Grieux)05:08
• Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945): L'amico Fritz, Act 2:
• 5Mascagni: L'amico Fritz, Act 2: Duetto delle ciliegie. "Suzel, buon dì!" (Fritz, Suzel)08:49
• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Macbeth, Act 4:
• 6Verdi: Macbeth, Act 4: Duetto. "Dove siam?" - "La patria tradita" (Macduff, Malcolm, Coro)02:46
• Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869): La damnation de Faust, Op. 24, H 111, Act 4:
• 7Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24, H 111, Act 4: "Nature immense" (Faust)04:23
• Jules Massenet: Werther, Act 3:
• 8Massenet: Werther, Act 3: "Traduire ! Ah ! Bien souvent" - "Pourquoi me réveiller" (Werther)03:37
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848): Dom Sébastien, Act 2:
• 9Donizetti: Dom Sébastien, Act 2: "Seul sur la terre" (Dom Sébastien)04:56
• Giacomo Puccini: La bohème, Act 1:
• 10Puccini: La bohème, Act 1: "Che gelida manina" (Rodolfo)04:33
• Saverio Mercadante (1795 - 1870): Il bravo, Act 1:
• 11Mercadante: Il bravo, Act 1: Duetto. "Non sai tu che non avrai più del ciel" (Carlo, Pisani)03:28
• Ernest Guiraud (1837 - 1892): Frédégonde, Act 2:
• 12Guiraud: Frédégonde, Act 2: Duo. "Nous partirons ce soir !" (Brunhilda, Mérowig)06:55
• Gaetano Donizetti: La favorite, Act 4:
• 13Donizetti: La favorite, Act 4: "La maîtresse du roi !" (Fernand)01:15
• 14Donizetti: La favorite, Act 4: "Ange si pur" (Fernand)03:19
• Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3:
• 15Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: "Tombe degli avi miei" - "Fra poco a me ricovero" (Edgardo)07:14
• Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth, Act 4:
• 16Verdi: Macbeth, Act 4: "O figli miei!" - "Ah, la paterna mano" (Macduff)03:33
• Fromental Halévy (1799 - 1862): La Juive, Act 2:
• 17Halévy: La Juive, Act 2: Trio. "Tu possèdes, dit-on, un joyau magnifique" (Eudoxie, Éléazar, Léopold)07:05
• Charles Gounod: Faust, Act 3:
• 18Gounod: Faust, Act 3: "Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre !" - Cavatine. "Salut demeure chaste et pure" (Faust)06:11
• Total Runtime01:24:57

Info for Nessun dorma

Taking its title, Nessun Dorma, from the greatest tenor hit of them all, Pene Pati’s second album balances favourite numbers with operatic rarities – two of them in world premiere recordings. In addition to Puccini, the Italian composers are Verdi, Donizetti, Mascagni and Mercadante, while the French school is represented by Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Gounod, Massenet, Halévy and Guiraud. Joining the Samoan tenor on the album are his soprano wife, Amina Edris, his tenor brother Amitai Pati, conductor Emmanuel Villaume, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and the Choeur de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux. In the words of the Telegraph, Pene Pati possesses an “extraordinary gift for producing a golden thread of sound that can swell without strain to magnificence,” while Opera magazine has lauded his “distinctively clear, marvellously sunny timbre, innate musicality and exceptionally vivid textual projection”. For the tenor himself, Nessun Dorma “showcases my love of the art of storytelling and the emotions it can elicit … As you listen to the album, I hope it takes you on an emotional journey.”

Pene Pati, tenor
Amina Edris, soprano
Amitai Pati, tenor
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 Nessun dorma