by carolina1954 on Sun 06 May, 2007 11:53 am
I just checked the Ansa photos and they are not current, but the Teatro Bellini one is.
I attended the Friday night and would have gone on the Saturday too, but I had to fly back that day.
Yes, maybe it is a poor subsititute if you just want to hear him sing, but then you can listen to a CD or watch a DVD.
To be able to watch him and hear him interact with other singers and the orchestra is wonderful and worth every penny of the ticket.
So he only sings one song... extremely well I must add, but he sings in harmony with the others and you can hear him do that. He is on stage for the whole performance, which is about 90 minutes and I am sure it is just as tiring for him as singing maybe 12 songs himself as he has to concentrate on what the others are doing all the time and he does it perfectly.
You can see him at times mouthing along with the others...lovely, and his smiles when someone else has done well are priceless too.
I have not had time to check where and when he is going to be doing concerts but I spoke to the lady of the English film crew, who have been following him since Madison Square Garden concert. They have just spent 3 weeks at his house and she is absolutely full of admiration for Andrea, what a wonderful man he is and how he makes it so easy for them.
She told me Lajatico would be early July, she was hoping they would do it at the end of the month rather than the beginning, but from other reports it seems to be 5th July ?
She also said he was doing the Pincess Diana Memorial Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, the Moscow concert 20th June and then something about a week before Moscow but I did not catch what she said. I am assuming the Diana one is sometime in late August ?
I asked would we get to see this film and she told me they were an independent unit, but filming for the BBC, and hopefully it was going to be shown Christmas Eve, in the UK.
Cami was there too, on the Friday night, so I am hoping she will do one of her beautiful reportd, as I am no good at that.
I will send Renate some photos, so she can put them on Bocelli.de if she wishes.
After the performance Andrea came out and spent a good 10 minutes chatting to fans and posing for photos. He was very casually dressed and obviously relaxed. I hope he enjoyed doing that, he seemed to and it shows what a nice person he is.
I was there with my daughter and she was quite impressed with the whole evening.
A wonderful evening......thanks again Andrea !