Age: 29
This season, Pete Thanapat performs the role of Roucher in Andrea Chénier at Opéra de Lyon and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. He is also the bass soloist for Verdi’s Requiem at the March Music Days Ruse in Bulgaria. In 2026, he will return to the Bregenz Festival to portray Marchese d’Obigny in La traviata.
As a member of the Lyon Opera Studio from 2022-2024, Pete performed the roles of Biterolf in Tannhäuser, Grand prêtre in Hérodiade, Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro, the One-Armed Man in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Larkens in La fanciulla del West, and Don Pedro in Béatrice et Bénédict, among others.
In 2022, as part of the prestigious Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival, he portrayed the Devil in The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs by Stefan Hanke. Earlier performances include Marco in Gianni Schicchi at the Bregenz Festival and Woodcutter in Die Königskinder at the Tirol Festival Erl.
Pete earned his master’s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and his bachelor’s degree at Mozarteum University Salzburg.
- Krassimira Stoyanova
- Mario Diaz
Major Competitions
- 2nd prize, Debut Competition – Germany, 2024
- Finalist, Eva Marton International Singing Competition, 2024
- Finalist, Neue Stimmen International Singing Competition, 2022
- Finalist, International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition, 2022
- 2nd prize, International Ferruccio Tagliavini Singing Competition, 2022
PROGRAMME
FIRST ROUND: ARIA
JULIEN BILODEAU La colombe
(La beauté du monde)
GEORGES BIZET Quand la flamme de l’amour
(La jolie fille de Perth)
GIUSEPPE VERDI Il lacerato spirito
(Simon Boccanegra)
FIRST ROUND: ART SONG
FRANZ SCHUBERT An die Leier
FRANZ LISZT La tombe et la rose
ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG Dank
(Zwei Gesänge für eine Baritonstimme und Klavier, op. 1)
ART SONG PRIZE FINAL
JOHANNES BRAHMS Denn es gehet dem Menschen · Ich wandte mich und sahe an alle · O Tod, wie bitter bist du · Wenn ich mit Menschen und mit Engelszungen redete
(Vier ernste Gesänge)
SEMIFINAL
CHARLES GOUNOD Vous qui faites l’endormie
(Faust)
FELIX MENDELSSOHN Is Not His Word Like A Fire
(Elijah)
GIOACHINO ROSSINI La calunnia è un venticello
(Il barbiere di Siviglia)
FINAL
GIUSEPPE VERDI O tu Palermo
(I Vespri Siciliani)
SERGEI RACHMANINOV Vyes’ tabor spit
(Aleko)
ARRIGO BOITO Son lo spirito
(Mefistofele)
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