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- 2001
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- 2001:
Messa da Requiem, January 28, 27
- 2001 USA Tour, March 22 -
April 6
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concert in occasion of the reopening of the tower, Pisa. June
17
- 2001:
2 concerts in London and Dublin, July 21/22
- 2001: USA Tour,
November/December
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- Gasdia , Bocelli, Rota
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- North America Springtour - March 22
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March 22, 2001
- National Car Rental
Arena
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Lauderdale, Florida
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- concert reports
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Il Messaggero
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- March 24, 2001
- Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay
fan report
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- March 25, 2001
- Union Center
- Philadelphia, PA
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- After the concert receiving
- a replica of the Liberty
Bell
- at the NIAF Reception
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- March 30, 2001
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- East Rutherford,
New Jersey
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- After the concert
the actors from
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meet him
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April 1, 2001
Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT
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- April 6, 2001
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- Boston Globe, April 3, 2001 (excerpt)
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- MUSIC REVIEW
Emotions run high for Bocelli,
his fans
By Richard Dyer, Globe Staff
After most of the singing was done,
Andrea Bocelli spoke. Facing the thousands of fans in the FleetCenter,
the Italian tenor said, ''I don't know whether I have English enough
to say this. But when I feel all this, your love, it is a big emotion
for me.''
The audience was feeling big emotions
too, as Bocelli sang a program of opera arias and duets with soprano
Cecilia Gasdia, Neapolitan songs, and, at encore time, two of his pop
hits.
The tenor has been fighting a cold,
and departed extensively from the printed program, but through the
pitiless microsope of ferocious amplification his voice sounded in
great shape, and he sang his heart out.
Bocelli is the tenor opera snobs love
to hate, but the opera snobs are wrong. It is true that he uses a
microphone when he performs in arenas, but so do other leading singers.
It is also true that the microphone permits him to sing arias from
operas he wouldn't dare perform in an unamplified theater, but he is
hardly the first singer to do that. The microphone loves Bocelli's
voice, but it cannot invent his musicianship, his diction, his
phrasing and breath control, his identification with the material, and
his emotion.
(...)
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- Il Messaggero, March
24, 2001 (excerpt)
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The two singers perform
for 13,000 fans.A
great success based on the arias of Puccini, Verdi, Mascagni
and Neopolitan songs.
Bocelli and Gasdia in song at Miami
From our special correspondent: Paolo
Saccagnini
MIAMI: As predicted, the Italian "bel canto"
delivers.
(...)
"Here the people aren't like
those in Italy – they come to enjoy themselves,"
said an emotional Bocelli after the concert, and certainly
Thursday evening there was much excitement.
Accompanied by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by the Turinese maestro Marcello Rota, which
performed the overture from Verdi's La Forza del
Destino, Bocelli immediately began with "Di
quella pira" from Verdi's Trovatore, followed
by "La mia letizia infondere" from I Lombardi,
"Tra voi, belle" from Puccini's Manon Lescaut
(...), moving on to the wonderful Gasdia with "Vissi
d'arte," from Puccini's Tosca, and then, with
Bocelli, to the first duet from Tosca followed by
that from Boheme.(...)
A well earned success then, for Gasdia and Bocelli, who,
he admitted happily, already has three new albums ready.
The Requiem by Verdi, which will be released in the
United States within a week, the Tosca conducted by
Zubin Mehta, and one of old arias, among these the
Concerto di Aranjuez by Joaquin Rodrigo, with the London
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel who, for the
occasion, has started to play the violin again. (...)
Translation: M. Morgan
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- Excerpt from Associated Press, March 21 2001
Andrea Bocelli Set To Tour U.S.
by RONALD BLUM, Associated Press
Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - Andrea Bocelli has
heard the criticism from the classical music press, which mostly
concludes his voice is small, technique limited and recordings
undistinguished.
He doesn't care. He's the
best-selling classical artist in the world.
"I prefer when somebody tells
nice things about me,'' he said. "When a tenor becomes very
famous, there is this problem. At the beginning, I was a little
disappointed. But now I'm used to it. I read everything because I'm
curious. But when I'm home, I enjoy a nice bottle of wine and it's
finished.''
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Bocelli, 42, has just recorded
"Tosca'' with soprano Fiorenza Cedolins, baritone Carlo Guelfi
and conductor Zubin Mehta; and in May he is to record Verdi's
"Il Trovatore"
(…)
His tour takes him to Fort
Lauderdale, Fla.; Philadelphia; Columbus, Ohio; East Rutherford,
N.J.; Boston; Hartford, Conn.; and Toronto.
But he has not sung at Milan's La
Scala, London's Royal Opera, the Paris Opera, the Vienna State Opera
or New York's Metropolitan Opera, the stages where singers have made
their places in history.
"For me it is very dangerous,''
he said. "Every newspaper will be there. Every television (network)
will be there. Every mass media will be there. I don't want at this
moment to risk too much. I say, why not? But now, my first goal is
to leave the highest number of recordings.''
(…)
"I try to do the things where I
feel the biggest emotions for me,'' he said. "It's very
important to feel inside myself emotions. If I don't feel emotions,
it's very difficult to transmit to the audience.''
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- Excerpt from South Florida Sun-Sentinel, March 17, 2001
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Tony tenor Bocelli at top of opera world
by Lawrence A. Johnson
It is a paradox worth savoring. Andrea Bocelli reigns as the world's
favorite opera singer, despite the fact that he rarely sings in an
opera house.
In just a few years, the Italian tenor has become an international
star and recording sensation, eclipsing even his mentor Luciano
Pavarotti.
The scarily popular Bocelli, whose concerts routinely sell out
airplane-hangar-sized venues, will kick off his latest North
American tour March 22 at the National Car Rental Center in Sunrise,
Fla. He comes to Philadelphia March 25 for a benefit performance.
His recent disc of Verdi arias made it onto the pop charts, selling
a remarkable 557,000 units. Bocelli's first complete opera recording,
of "La Boheme," has sold 37,000 copies - chicken feed in
the pop world, but a megahit in opera sales - making it the all-time
best-selling set of Puccini's opera. To date, Bocelli has sold a
stunning 7.7 million recordings.
It's heady stuff for the blind son of a small-vineyard owner from
rural Tuscany. Yet at age 42, Bocelli admits to still feeling
uncomfortable onstage. "I have always had stage fright,"
he says. "But now it's getting worse."
One would think that with increasing concerts and exposure, Bocelli
would be feeling more relaxed and that being onstage would be easier.
"No, absolutely no, because there are increasing
responsibilities," Bocelli says, on the phone from Italy.
"The audience has many expectations. It's very hard."
Surprisingly, the tenor finds staged opera - rife with obvious
difficulties for a sightless singer - less difficult. "Opera is
actually better because we have costumes and there are other singers
with us. You can move yourself around more. It's not the same thing.
"Before, nobody knew me. Now it's difficult because I am always
under examination. I try to do my best always, but this [constant
attention] makes me nervous.
"But that is my destiny. This is my work."
(…)
Despite the fame, riches and international adulation that are his,
Bocelli remains restless, constantly seeking to improve his singing
and performances. That progress can be charted in his recordings,
where his dedication and determination have made each set more
convincing.
"The most important goal for me is to improve myself,"
Bocelli says. "I can say that today I sing better than
yesterday. And tomorrow I want to sing better than today. That's
all."
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