Taking its title, Nessun Dorma, from the greatest tenor hit of them all, Pene Pati’s second album balances favourite numbers with operatic rarities – two of them in world-premiere recordings. In addition to Puccini, the Italian composers are Verdi and Donizetti, while the French school is represented by Berlioz, Gounod and Massenet.

Joining the Samoan tenor on the album are conductor Emmanuel Villaume, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and the Chœur de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux.

In the words of the Telegraph, Pene Pati possesses an “extraordinary gift for producing a golden thread of sound that can swell without strain to magnificence,” while Opera magazine has lauded his “distinctively clear, marvellously sunny timbre, innate musicality and exceptionally vivid textual projection”. For the tenor himself, Nessun Dorma “showcases my love of the art of storytelling and the emotions it can elicit … As you listen to the album, I hope it takes you on an emotional journey.”

Nessun Dorma, Pene Pati’s second album balances favourite numbers with operatic rarities – and has one world-premiere recording and two rarities

The world-premiere recording is a different version of the aria of Faust, “Et toi, malheureux Faust - C'est l'enfer qui t'envoie” with a cabaletta instead of the recitative (score provided by Ulrich Etscheit / Baerenreiter).