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Post n°12 pubblicato il 20 Aprile 2009 da andreabocelliitalia1
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Post n°11 pubblicato il 20 Aprile 2009 da andreabocelliitalia1
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Post n°10 pubblicato il 20 Aprile 2009 da andreabocelliitalia1
 On June 2, 2008 he performed at the Piazza del Duomo, Milan in front of 80 thousand people during a concert celebrating the anniversary of the republic of Italie.[37] In June he played Don José in Bizet's opera Carmen in Rome. On July 20, he held his third concert at the Teatro del Silenzio in Lajatico, Bocelli's home town. The concert was a tribute to the Cinema of Italy and was attended by, Academy Award winner classical light musician, and theater and film score composer, Nicola Piovani, ballet dancer Roberto Bolle, who danced during the ceremony and by Israel's leading artist Noa, who sang a duet with Bocelli. Also attending was 16 year old Charice Pempengco who sang "The Prayer" with Bocelli who asked her to sing with him after hearing her voice for the very first time at a one-night tribute concert for David Foster in Las Vegas where they both sang.[40] Then on July 31, he performed at a concert in "Vingis Park", Vilnius, Lithuania in front of more than 18 thousand people.[41] Australien singer Tina Arena performed two duets with Bocelli, "Canto Della Terra" and "The Prayer", at the closing stages of the concert.[42] On August 7, 2008, he held a benefit concert at Medjugorje, Bosnia Herzegovina and was accompanied by Czech National Symphony Orchestra.[41] Then, during the rest of August, he was on tour in Australia for the third time, with performances at Vector Arena Auckland, New Zealand,on the 20th, Entertainment Centre Brisbane on the 22nd, Acer Arena Sydney, on the 24th, Rod Laver Arena Melbourne, on the 27th, and at Burswood Dome Perth, on the 30th. His fiancé and both of his sons accompanied him on the tour.[41] Tina Arena performed again with him in all 5 concerts during the tour.[43] On September 26, 2008, , during the 2008 Veneto Festival, he held a concert in the Church of the Eremitani in Padova, Italy, in front of about a 1000 people. He was accompanied by the I Solisti Veneti orchestra, which was celebrating its 50th birthday, conducted by Claudio Scimone, and by the Wiener Singakademie choir. The concert was a celebration of Giacomo Puccini's 150th birthday.[44] On October 10 and 11 he performed at Petra first with Laura Pausini singing Dare to Live, then Mattinata, an aria he sang during the 1994 Pavarotti & Friends concert after Pavarotti introduced him to the world. He also sang E Lucevan le Stelle from Tosca that night. On Octobre 19 he sang "O Surdato 'Nnamurato" and a duet of "Non Ti Scordar Di Me" with Cecilia Bartoli, both from the Incanto album, during the ECHO Awards in Germany, and later presented the soprano with an ECHO award. On October 24, he performed at Piazza del Plebiscito in Naples, as a tribute to the city, where he celebrated the release of Incanto in Italy, the album which was later released to the rest of the world on November 4, 2008. Performing with him were flutist Andrea Griminelli, Italian pop singer Massimo Ranieri and soprano Cecilia Bartoli, with Steven Mercurio conducting the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.[45] On October 31, he performed a solo version of the Prayer, as well as Because, a song from Incanto, live on The Oprah Winfrey Show.[46] On November 21 and 22, Bocelli was amongst a quartet of soloists (soprano Sabina Cvilak, mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich and bass Alexander Vinogradov) to sing Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, conducted by Plácido Domingo, at the Washington National Opera in Washington, DC.[47] Bocelli sang twice in the piece and later the two famous tenors sang The Pearl Fishers duet which would be the first aria they had ever sang togheter.[48] On November 25 and 26 he stared along side soprano Verónica Villarroel in an opera in concert of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana at the "Municipal Auditorium" in San Antonio, Texas.[48] He later held a concert at "Atrio de la Catedral" in Campeche, Mexico, on November 28, where he sang songs from Incanto as well as some of his spanish hits, such as Besame Mucho, Somos Novios, Amapola and Por ti Volare, the Spanish version of Con te Partiro.[48] [edit] Personal life Bocelli was named one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People of 1998.[49] His blue eyes are mostly closed in public, due to his blindness, he is 6'2" tall, and takes a laissez-faire approach to grooming. He says that he gets his hair cut "when I go on a TV show and there's a barber on the set," trims his beard monthly because "I don't feel like doing it every day" and is indifferent to beauty products other than fragrance, which he wears "for myself, not for other people."[49] In September 2004 Bocelli agreed to shave off his beard for a Rome guide dog charity, raising in excess of £100,000. He met his first wife Enrica, with whom he had two children, while singing at piano bars early in his career.[1][3] They were married on 27 June 1992.[4] Their first child, Amos, was born in February 1995. Their second son, Matteo was born in October 1997.[6] The couple divorced in 2002.[16] Since then, he met his fiancée to be, Veronica Berti, but he doesn't plan to get married again due to being Catholic. The couple lives in Forte dei Marmi in a 19th century Villa (former hotel) on the beach and Bocelli's ex-wife and his two sons live in the couple's previous residence in the same comune near Pisa. Bocelli's father, Sandro Bocelli, died on 30 April 2000. His mother encouraged him to honour his commitments and so he sang for the Pope in Rome on 1 May and immediately returned home for the funeral. At the 5 July performance that was filmed for PBS as American Dream — Andrea Bocelli's Statue of Liberty Concert, Bocelli dedicated the encore Sogno to the memory of his father.[13] A section of the way along the beach in Jesolo, on the Italian Adriatic coast, was named after Bocelli on August 11, 2003.[17] In 2006, Bocelli influenced the municipality of Lajatico (his home town) to build an outdoor theatre, the "Teatro del Silenzio".[50] Bocelli performed for one night only. One night every July the theatre will be opened for performances. The rest of the time it will be silent. Since the opening he has sung on 27 July 2006, 5 July 2007 and 20 July 2008, and has agreed to perform at least two more, in July 2009 and 2010. [edit] Honorifics & Awards |
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Post n°9 pubblicato il 20 Aprile 2009 da andreabocelliitalia1
2006-2007 On 18 February he sang at the Toyota Center in Houston during the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2006 All-Star Weekend, and broadcast live on the TNT Cable television network.[26] On 26 February Bocelli sang Because we believe from his Amore album in the Carnevale section of the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics which was held in Turin Italy with a worldwide television audience.[27] He also began another tour with a concert at the Piazza di Castello in Turin.[28]  In March he was honoured by the Italian state with a Grande Ufficiale Italian Order of Merit (Grand Officer of the Italian Republic), given to him by then President of the Italian Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi for his worldwide work for his country as a singer. The award was presented to him at the Sanremo Festival where he performed a duet with Christina Aguilera on 4 March.[29][27] From 31 March to 2 April he took part in the Maggio Musicale in Florence where he sang the Canto di pace (Canto of peace) by Marco Tutino[30] and the tenor part from Gioachino Rossini's Messa di Gloria and in Naples where he took part in Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle).[27][28] In April 2006, he featured as a guest coach on American Idol helping the finalists sing the week's themed songs, "Greatest Love Songs." He also performed on that week's results show.[31] American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee performed at three of Bocelli's concerts in California from 9 June to 11 June singing duets of Somos Novios and The Prayer with Bocelli. They also performed on 'J. C. Penney Jam: The Concert for America's Kids[32] and recorded duet versions of Somos Novios for the resulting album, and also Can't Help Falling in Love on the CD of the Under the Desert Sky DVD. In June he sang the Italian duet version of Because we believe - Ama, credi e vai with Gianna Nannini at the "großen Fan Party" at the opening of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Berlin in front of billions of worldwide television viewers. On 1 July 2007, Bocelli performed Music of the Night from Andrew Lloyd-Webber's Phantom of the Opera, in a special musicals medley during the Concert for Diana at Wembley Stadium in London, England.[33] Bocelli returned to his home town for a triumphant concert at the newly created Teatro del Silenzio in Lajatico on 5 July 2007. Guest appearance by Kenny G, Heather Headley, Lang Lang, Elisa, Sarah Brightman and Laura Pausini. In September he debuted at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York with four concerts, which drew strong criticism from New York Times Music critic Bernard Holland who wrote, "Bocelli is not a very good singer." Holland did also go on to acknowledge that "music critics had no business at Avery Fisher Hall on Wednesday. Mr. Bocelli's every gesture invited warm, resounding approval. Accusing audiences of being gullible won’t wash. The music public can be conned for only a short time, and Mr. Bocelli's success is of reasonably long standing."[34] In October the opera album of Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci with Bocelli singing the role of Canio was released. In November he won the "Best Italian Artist" and "World's Best-selling Classical Artist" awards at the World Music Awards. In December he finished his 2006 tour with more concerts in North America and Europe.[27]  Bocelli and Sarah Brightman's duet version of Con te partirò was used in the 2007 film Blades of Glory, as an ice skating song. K-1 mixed martial arts fighter, Akiyama Yoshihiro started using Con te partirò as his ring entrance music. On 8 September Bocelli sang an arrangement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Ave verum corpus at the funeral of Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Italy. On 21 October 2007, he sang Con te partirò with Katherine Jenkins on the UK television series Strictly Come Dancing results show, and on 30 October, he sang The Prayer with Céline Dion during an ITV Special "An Audience with Céline Dion." The show was broadcast on 23 December. He sang alongside fellow Italian singer Laura Pausini Vive Ya during the 2007 Latin Grammy Awards.The song was also released in English on The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere his 2007 album as Dare To Live and was originally released as a duet in italien between Bocelli and italien singer and songwriter Trovatto in his first international album Romanza in 1997. The album, Vivere, sold over 3 million copies. [edit] 2008 onwardOn 20 January 2008, Boceli receives the Italian TV award Telegatto in platinum for Italian music in the world, in Rome. He first sang "La voce del silenzio"" , then "Dare to Live" (Vivere) with Laura Pausini, from his then new album The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere, during the Ceremony.[35] To promote the album, he performed "Canto della Terra" at The Alan Titchmarsh Show on BBC in London on February 1, was interviewed by Fabio Fazio on the italian talk show Che tempo che fa on RAI 3 in Italy and performed "Canto della terra", "A te" and "Besame mucho" from the album, as well as "My way", a song he always used to sing in piano-bars to pay for his education on February 2, and made an appearance on The South Bank Show in London, where he sang the french aria "Pour mon âme" on February 3. Then on February 10, he performed the Prayer at the 50th Grammy Awards, held in Los Angeles, with Josh Groban in a tribute to Luciano Pavarotti, and sang "Dare to live" with Heather Headley, the following, day on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.[35] In April he was on tour in Asia with performances first in Tokyo, Japan on the 5th and 17h, then in Taichung Taiwan on the 19th, and finaly in Seoul, South Korea on the 22nd. Each concert was attended by more than 15 thousand people.[36] On May 7, 2008, he sang at Steel Aréna in Košice, Slovakia in front of 8 thousand people.[37] Then May 13 he sang at the "Teatro delle Muse" in Ancona Italy, for a charity concert for the foundation "Francesca Rava - N.P.H. Italia Onlus", that, for 50 years, has helped poor and disabled children around the world (on this occasion its children in Haiti).[37] On 23 May 2008 he sang The Prayer with Katharine McPhee at the concert tribute for 15-time Grammy Award producer/songwriter David Foster, held at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas. In an interview, after hearing Charice sing for the first time in that tribute concert to Foster, Bocelli said that "In realtà il mondo è pieno di grandi voci e ho avuto la fortuna di cantare con tanti artisti, da Christina Aguilera a Bono. Ma, se proprio dovessi trovare una nuova interprete, punterei su Charice, una ragazza delle Filippine che a soli 15 anni è una versa forza della natura. Ne sentiremo parlare." or "In reality, the world is full of great voices and I had the opportunity to sing with so many artists, from Christina Aguilera to Bono. But, if I would like to look for a new voice, I would push for Charice, a girl from the Philippines that at only 15 years old is a flush force of nature. That we shall be hearing."[38][39] |
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