{"id":93014,"date":"2024-10-11T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/operawire.com\/?p=93014"},"modified":"2024-10-10T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T16:17:56","slug":"cd-review-pene-patis-nessun-dorma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/operawire.com\/cd-review-pene-patis-nessun-dorma\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review: Pene Pati\u2019s ‘Nessun Dorma’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Samoan Pene Pati is a sumptuously voiced tenor. He boasts a quintessentially lyrical sound, timbered as if made for virtually anything out of the great Romantics\u2019 operatic pen. In \u201cNessun Dorma,\u201d he once again proves his qualities: <\/span><\/p>\n

After his 2022 debut on Warner Classics, he takes on a heavily eclectic repertory which he navigates with remarkably executed showpiece notes, and an unerring feel for both language and style.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vocal Fireworks<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

The album opens with the title-giving \u201cNessun Dorma\u201d which by making it into the 1990 UK Singles Chart, has become the unofficial operatic anthem per se. It is a bit of a concession to consumer expectations that Pati would give it such prominence; after all, even brightly colored tenors like Juan Diego Fl\u00f3rez have recently taken to the Puccinian war horse. Yet it is not where Pene Pati\u2019s wonderfully clear voice excels the most. Though his unfailingly reliable breath enables him to manage the score\u2019s uneasy tessitura, and even cut through the orchestral texture with apparent ease, one cannot help thinking that his forte really lies someplace else. In Gounod, Massenet<\/a>, Donizetti, and – to some extent – Verdi he comes into his own.<\/span><\/p>\n

Surprisingly perhaps, he adapts to the French style and diction seamlessly. The color of the vowels changes accordingly, and the phrasing has all the rhythmic sprezzatura <\/i>of the repertoire\u2019s most prominent interpreters. In \u201cSalut! Demeure chaste et pure\u201d he additionally treats us to a near-impossible diminuendo on the often dreaded C executed, so to speak, en passant<\/i>. For Massenet\u2019s \u201cManon\u201d and \u201cWerther\u201d the prevailing expression becomes both dreamy and hauntingly tortured – yet without overstepping the boundaries of unprescribed decorum. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dom S\u00e9bastien\u2019s \u201cSeul sur la terre\u201d is a triumphantly rendered tour de force<\/i> for which he departs from the syllabic preponderance of the French operatic tradition to a typically Belcantist legato. The aria has received something of a discographic revival, as it noticeably featured on recent studio recordings by Benjamin Bernheim (\u201cBoulevard des Italiens,\u201d 2022), Michael Spyres (\u201cEspoir,\u201d 2017), and Lawrence Brownlee (\u201cAllegro io son,\u201d 2016). Pati manages a fully supported top D-flat, garnishing the Donizetti piece with radiating clarion sounds. Criticism, if pertinent at all, would solely touch on his handling of the melismas which here and in \u201cTombe degli avi miei,\u201d lack the bite of similarly placed tenor voices, incl. Pavarotti\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Family Affair<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Pati is aptly supported by his wife Amina Edris and brother Amitai Pati whose faultless performances significantly contribute to the album\u2019s lasting appeal. Edris invests the part of Mascagni\u2019s Suzel with extraordinary tenderness, if not frailty; yet her soprano\u2019s metallic ring also points to interpretive avenues well beyond the type-cast soubrette in turn-of-the century opera. Similarly, Amitai Pati is a generously equipped tenor whose warm timbre effortlessly matches his brother\u2019s Macduff and, in Hal\u00e9vy\u2019s \u201cLa Juive,\u201d the fatherly \u00c9l\u00e9azar. <\/span><\/p>\n

The trio is sensibly supported by the unpretentious conducting of Emmanuel Villaume. He does not seek to be adventurous, or to depart from the repertory\u2019s well-trodden paths in any shape or form. Instead, his Orchestre National leaves enough breathing room for the protagonist\u2019s exceptionally rounded voice to unfold – and in the process establish itself among the standard bearers of a new generation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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In \u201cNessun Dorma,\u201d he once again proves his qualities: After his 2022 debut on Warner Classics, he takes on a heavily eclectic repertory which he navigates with remarkably executed showpiece notes, {…}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":93015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,8],"tags":[3440,13765,521,1135],"class_list":["post-93014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvd-and-cd-reviews","category-in-review","tag-amina-edris","tag-amitai-pati","tag-emmanuel-villaume","tag-pene-pati"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCD Review: Pene Pati\u2019s 'Nessun Dorma' - OperaWire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/operawire.com\/cd-review-pene-patis-nessun-dorma\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CD Review: Pene Pati\u2019s 'Nessun Dorma' - OperaWire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Samoan Pene Pati is a sumptuously voiced tenor. 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