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Pene Pati’s second solo album balances favorite numbers with operatic rarities including the world premiere recording of the aria-cabaletta for the title character of the 1858 version of Gounod’s Faust. In addition to Puccini, the Italian composers are Verdi, Donizetti, Mascagni and Mercadante, while the French school is represented by Berlioz, Meyerbeer, 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. Pene Pati makes his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in La bohème in the spring.

Tracklist

Arias from Massenet’s Manon & Werther, Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, Puccini’s La bohème, Verdi’s Macbeth
Aria and cabaletta, “Salut! demeur chaste et pure…C’est l’enfer qui t’envoie” from Gounoud’s Faust
Cherry Duet, from Mascagni’s L’amico Fritz
Duet from Mercadante’s Il bravo
Duet from Halévy’s La Juive

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