OPERA & POP ADD UP TO PLEASING 'POPERA'
By DAN AQUILANTE
December 2, 2006 -- ANDREA BOCELLI
NOT since Bugs Bunny put on a white tie and tuxedo to conduct in the 1946 cartoon "Rhapsody Rabbit" has any one performer done more than Andrea Bocelli to make classical music accessible to the average Joe.
At Madison Square Garden, better known as a cathedral for rock, Bocelli did just that, while performing some of the world's most famous arias, as well as a few love songs from this year's multiplatinum-selling "Amore," in front of a sold-out house.
For opera fans slumming at the Garden, he brought the house down Thursday at the close of the first set with a couple of numbers from Verdi's "Il Trovatore." Backed by a 60-piece orchestra and a 125-member choir, Bocelli's voice was hearty. He sang the tunes like they were drinking songs, yet his tone was smooth and brimmed with emotion.
For entire review:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12022006/en ... ilante.htm
--Gloria M
