Andrea Bocelli: The son rises in Hyde Park
OperaThe Italian singer has added his son Matteo and the Welsh songbird Katherine Jenkins to a mass concert he is giving in London next month.
Papa Bocelli said: ‘Hyde Park is the perfect place for coming together to celebrate my 30th anniversary and reimagine it as a springboard propelling us into the future, imbued with positivity and the power of good.
‘Celebrating it here is sure to be unforgettable, in the vast green lung from which London has been drawing breath for hundreds of years, in this park that is the embodiment of a glorious chapter in the history of a nation, of a continent, of a civilization…and also of so much wonderful music that has rung out here, nourishing it in its wake’.
The favorite of Long Island housewives and their ilk everywhere. Their poor husbands.
People I know went to see Bocelli père et fils in Montreal recently. Their musical tastes run to more mainstream rock — McCartney, etc. — but they said the Bocellis delivered really good concert. I think they stuck to generally popular stuff, well within Pa’s range. I know nothing about the son.
I had to review him once — back when he was riding the Romanza wave — and was not impressed. He chose mostly obscure classical pieces and never got the audience with him; nor was he especially good to hear, though I have heard him on CD and TV singing better.
Generally I think he has a pleasant light tenor and can do some crossover-y stuff quite well, if that’s to your taste. I still think there are a couple of very good songs on the Romanza album, and he can do a hymn. If he stays away from opera proper, he’s a reasonable light entertainer, and that seems to be the route he is now taking.
Everyone is given an opinion, use it kindly.
how wonderfull! The world will get to hear the brilliant Matteo and Andrea. Bravo!!
Papa sang in Dallas last year. Exquisite. Simply the best. Greatest of All Time!
Can someone explain to me all the hate towards Bocelli? Does he advertise himself as an “operatic tenor” when he’s not? Or his PR team does that? I don’t think you could say you hate him simply because he’s a cross-over singer. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with not being an opera singer. Tons of singers aren’t. So what exactly did Bocelli himself do wrong?
He tried to be an opera singer. Got a lot of stick for it. Seems to have stopped doing it.
Regardless of what he might or might not call himself, he sings opera therefore he is compared with opera singers in performances of the same operas or arias. Opera singers have to live with often harsh comparison throughout their careers, so why should Bocelli get a free pass?
Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras attracted criticism for their recording of West Side Story, but they didn’t whine about it or try to silence criticism by calling it hate. It’s just valid opinion, and nothing more. Fans of Bocelli should just learn to live with it.
Great duo
One is blind, one is deaf