Pete Thanapat
bass-baritone
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The young bass-baritone Pete Thanapat joins Oper Frankfurt's ensemble in the 2025/26 season, during which you can hear him as Angelotti in Tosca, the Helmsman in Tristan und Isolde, Johann in Werther, Clorebe / Fauno in a new production of Steffani's Amor vien dal destino, a Sergeant in Manon Lescaut and Curio in Giulio Cesare. He was a member of the Opéra de Lyon's opera studio (2022 - 24), where roles included Biterolf (Tannhäuser), Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Larkens (La fanciulla del West) and Pedro (Berlioz‘ Béatrice et Bénédict). He sang Quinault (Adriana Lecouvreur) and Roucher (Andrea Chénier) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and made his debut at the Bregenz Festival in 2024, singing Marco in Gianni Schicchi, where he returns to the lakeside stage in 2026 for Marchese d'Obigny in La Traviata. This 2nd prizewinner at the 2024 German Debut Competition reached the finals of the Eva Marton Competition. He sang in Verdi's Requiem alongside Krassimira Stoyanova at the March Music Days in Ruse (Bulgaria), took part in the 2022 Salzburg Festival's Young Singers Project, won the 2019 Perry Nelson Prize at the International Hilde Zadek Singing Competition and took part in SWR's 2023 Young Opera Stars in Kaiserslautern. He made his international debut in 2014, singing Maestro Spinelloccio and Notaio in Gianni Schicchi at Festung Bergenhaus in Norway. Born in Bangkok in 1995, he gained his masters at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna, and his bachelors at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.