Pene Pati has been presented with the Reader’s Award at the International Opera Awards 2022 Ceremony live from Teatro Real, Madrid. Beaming in via video Pene thanked all his supporters and ​“true lovers of the art” who voted, as well as his fellow short-listed singers.

Pene Pati is now one of the world’s most in-demand tenors whose past seasons have been littered with prestigious debuts with many more to come alongside the release of his first solo album on Warner Classics. His recent portrayal of Berlioz’s Faust (La Damnation de Faust) at Opéra de Monte Carlo under Kazuki Yamada is still available to watch via Medici​.tv Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust (medici​.tv)

Pene is the cover star of the December 2022 issue of Opera! Magazine and catch him if you can at Berliner Staatsoper unter den Linden as Mozart’s Mitridate, re di Ponto, conducted by Marc Minkowski, on 4, 7, 9 or 11 December 2022.