Pene Pati sings “Una furtiva lagrima“ from Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore

The tenor Pene Pati sings as a lovestruck Nemorino in this aria from Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore. Listen to this and more on his debut album, with the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and conductor Emmanuel Villaume: The recording matches favorite tenor showpieces with rarer gems by Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Gounod, and Benjamin Godard. It was in Bordeaux in 2019, and in Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, that Pene Pati – who grew up in New Zealand – made his European debut. A singer of glowing lyricism, he establishes an immediate rapport with his audience and has risen swiftly up the world’s tenor ranks. Video: