Amitai Pati

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“Without question, the standout artist of Pagliacci was Adler Fellow Amitai Pati, who sang Beppe’s Serenade with the lightness, grace and beauty of the great Tito Schipa”
(San Francisco Classical Voice, September 2018)

Samoan tenor Amitai Pati recently made a spectacular European debut as Nadir (Les pêcheurs de perles) at the Philharmonie de Paris. The French critics commented “Amitai Pati performs a moving Nadir, endowed with a superb tenor voice, ideal in the role” (Toute la culture, March 2020) and “The young singer makes a sensational debut in Paris” (Forum Opéra, March 2020).

In the current season Amitai Pati makes several notable international appearances. He makes his British operatic debut with English National Opera as Ferrando in Così fan tutte under Kerem Hasan. As a former Adler Fellow, he returns to San Francisco Opera as Don Ottavio in a new production of Don Giovanni, conducted by Bertrand de Billy, and returns to the role in concert to mark his Tanglewood debut, under Andris Nelsons. Amitai Pati’s current season also includes his Seattle Opera debut as Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, led by Giampaolo Bisanti.

Amitai Pati’s commitments with San Francisco Opera in the 2018/19 season included Beppe in I pagliacci conducted by Daniele Callegari, Lord Cecil in Roberto Devereux under Riccardo Frizza, and Angel Quartet in Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life conducted by Patrick Summers. Elsewhere in the same season he recorded La fanciulla del West and Madama Butterfly with the Gulbenkian Orchestra under Lawrence Foster, due for release by Pentatone.

La traviata - credit Cory Weaver — Amitai Pati in La traviata ©Cory Weaver

Amitai Pati received his master’s degree in advanced vocal studies at the Wales International Academy of Voice under the tutelage of tenor Dennis O’Neill. In 2014, he was invited to join the Young Singers Project in Salzburg, Austria, where he appeared in performances and concerts including La favorite with Elīna Garanča, Juan Diego Flórez, and Ludovic Tézier, and the tenor solo in Mozart’s Spatzenmesse under Christoph Koncz. Following this, he became a participant of the 2016 Merola Opera Program, singing his first principal role as Ferrando in Così fan tutte under Mark Morash. He worked on a wide repertoire including Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Gastone in La traviata and Borsa in Rigoletto, both under the baton of Nicola Luisotti during his time in San Francisco.

An experienced concert artist, Amitai Pati has toured with the New Zealand Youth Choir, Graduate Choir, and the Auckland University Choir. Elsewhere at home, he’s recently appeared with Orchestra Wellington in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bartók’s Cantata Profana, and with New Zealand Opera as Jupiter/Apollo in Handel’s Semele. He has sung in master classes with the many great singers including Joseph Rouleau, Della Jones, Dame Josephine Barstow, Dame Anne Murray and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.

Along with his brother Pene Pati and their cousin Moses Mackay, Amitai is a member of the highly successful vocal trio SOL3 MIO, and signed to Universal Music.

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Dies bildnis ist bezaubernd schön © Amitai Pati

“Jupiter intervened before the wedding could take place, opulently sung by the tenor Amitai Pati; lascivious and arrogant, he swept Semele away in a moment of carefree mutual lust.”

(Opera Magazine, January 2021)

“Amitai Pati performs a moving Nadir, endowed with a superb tenor voice, ideal in the role.”

Toute la Culture, March 2020

“The young singer makes a sensational debut in Paris.”

(Forum Opéra, March 2020)

“Amitai Pati, the only non-French speaker, was not out of place in the evening’s cast. Although he lacks an accent, he shares with the other singers perfectly intelligible diction that makes it unnecessary to read the surtitles.”

(Forum Opéra, March 2020)

“Tenor Amitai Pati’s light, lyrical tenor was as well suited to a familiar aria from Friedrich von Flotow’s Martha as it was to a caressing a Franz Lehár love song”

(San Francisco Classical Voice, December 2018)

“young tenor Amitai Pati deserves special kudos for singing Beppo’s serenade exquisitely”

(Bachtrack, October 2018)

“Without question, the standout artist of Pagliacci was Adler Fellow Amitai Pati, who sang Beppe’s Serenade with the lightness, grace and beauty of the great Tito Schipa. Of everyone onstage, only Pati sounded absolutely right for his part”

(San Francisco Classical Voice, September 2018)

“New Zealand tenor Amitai Pati played Lord Cecil as smug and fully confident of his ability to align the Queen’s interests with his own”

(Opera Warhorses, September 2018)

“In smaller roles, tenor Amitai Pati as Lord Cecil…contributed exceptional portrayals”

(Seen and Heard, September 2018)

“Other Adler Fellows made excellent smaller contributions: Amitai Pati’s sunny sound as Lord Cecil contrasted with his character’s gleeful evil”

(San Franciscio Classical Voice, September)

“Amitai Pati (Pene Pati’s brother and fellow Adler Fellow) and Amina Edris (Pene Pati’s wife and fellow Adler Fellow) sounded excellent as, respectively, Matteo Borsa and Countess Ceprano, making this premiere a successful family party”

(San Francisco Classical Voice, June 2017)