Congratulations to Pene Pati who has been announced as the winner of the OPUS KLASSIK 2022 Newcomer of the Year award.

Pene​’s self-titled debut album with Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine under Emmanuel Villaume was released on Warner Classics earlier this year to great critical acclaim. In their five-star review, Opera Now noted, ​“Pati immediately scores with his high-placed and open sound, with a naturally sunny vocal hue. But in the recitative alone he impresses with his attention to the text and his phrasing…they immediately mark Pati out as a performer of sensitivity… As well as the bravura numbers, there is an innate sense of style and elegance at work here”.

With a string of major house and role debuts throughout Europe and the US last season and upcoming, Pene Pati is certainly the one to watch.