This video concert was offered as a premium during the PBS pledge drive in December and, like the video of "The Three Tenors" a few years back, was a hit. Spliced into the non-concert clips is a playback of "Il Mare Calmo Della Sera," which earned Bocelli the highest marks ever recorded by a new artist in his debut at the San Remo Music Festival.
The $24.95, 90-minute PolyGram video includes what Bocelli calls his boyhood favorites such as the ever-popular "Torna A Surriento," "O Sole Mio" and "Santa Lucia Luntana." The 16 selections also include Bocelli's hit "Romanza," a duet with Zucchero on "Miserere," and a finale with Brightman, "Time to Say Goodbye." There are also snippets of Bocelli walking around his villa, riding a horse in the Tuscany countryside, playing with children and enjoying a picnic with family and friends. Three years ago, Luciano Pavarotti introduced Bocelli at the 1995 Pavarotti International, which he won, launching both his career and a friendship. He earned a law degree from the University of Pisa but began pursuing music a year later, earning money to pay for lessons with Franco Corelli by playing in piano bars, where he met his wife, Enrica. The singing is just out of this world, Pavarottis first C is gorgeous. Bocelli was visually impaired at birth and lost his sight entirely at age 12 following a soccer accident. Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland sing vieni fra queste braccia from act III of Bellinis I Puritani. As he sings an assortment of classical and popular ballads, Bocelli works without sheet music, with no visual reference to the conductor and without assistance from a Teleprompter, as other performers might employ. He sang solos and was joined for duets by sopranos Nuccia Focile and Sarah Brightman and Italian rock star Zucchero. consumption, "Andrea Bocelli: A Night in Tuscany." The cassette includes a concert performance last fall in Pisa's Piazza de Cavalieri. Andrea Bocelli, a native of rural Tuscany, has released his first video for U.S. Now, Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras have been joined by a fourth voice, an internationally known Italian tenor introduced to many American viewers by a PBS "In the Spotlight" special and now invited to stay by home video. A few seasons ago, PBS exposed a trio of operatic performers to a wider, American television audience and added "The Three Tenors" to the vocabularies of even non-opera fans.
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