APIA, July 11 — Pene Pati remembers his teachers at university telling him: “Don’t be ashamed if you don’t make it because a lot of Pacific singers won’t.” In fact, they added, no one from Samoa had ever become an opera star.
“Nearly every critic I’ve had at every single opera has said the same thing: ‘You truly do sound like Pavarotti’,” he told AFP with a laugh. “They weren’t being mean. They were being realistic because, in fairness, no one had done it before me except Kiri Te Kanawa,” the great New Zealand soprano, he said.
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