Pete Thanapat
bass-baritone
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Young bass-baritone Pete Thanapat, 2nd prizewinner at the 2024 German Debut Competition, sang roles including Roucher in Andrea Chénier an the Opéra de Lyon and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris during the 2024/25 season. He also sang in Verdi's Requiem alongside Krassimira Stoyanova at the March Music Days in Ruse (Bulgaria) and returns to the Bregenz Festival in 2026, to sing Marchese d'Obigny in La traviata on the lakeside stage. He reached the finals of the 2024 Eva Marton Competition and took part in the Salzburg Festival's 2022 Young Singers Project. He 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 was a member of the opera studio in Lyon from 2022 - 2024, during which time he sang Biterolf in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Antonio in Le nozze di Figaro, Larkens in La fanciulla del West and Don Pedro in Hector Berlioz‘ Béatrice et Bénédict. He sang Quinault in Adriana Lecourvreur at theThéâtre des Champs-Élysées and Marco in Gianni Schicchi at the Bregenz Festival. He made his international debut in 2014, as Maestro Spinelloccio and Notaio in Gianni Schicchi at Festung Bergenhus in Norway. Born in Bangkok in 1995, he gained his masters at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Vienna with the help of KS Krassimira Stoyanova and KS Angelika Kirchschlager, and his bachelors at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg.