A Pavarotti rebirth: the Samoan tenor taking over the worlds most gilded opera stages

Born on a tiny, impoverished South Pacific island, Pene Pati remembers going to school without food. Now he is performing in operas at La Scala and the MetAlong roads of scarlet hibiscus and exuberant tropical foliage are the white churches of Samoa. On Sundays the choir, singing in pure harmony, rises up to the cathedral ceilings in one soaring voice of divinity.Pene Pati, once a child in those churches, is now a commanding, magnetic presence on the worlds greatest gilded stages - a universe aw...