Product Description
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Performed on a specially constructed floating stage in Lake Las
Ve, a resort community 20 miles south of Las Ve, this
historic performance captures Andrea Bocelli's first ever pop
concert. Under the Desert Sky, which co-stars Tony® winner
Heather Headley (Elton John's Aida), represents a new era for the
Tuscan-born singer. Spanish guitars flourish, traditional Latin
percussion seductively keeps the tempo, accordions and harmonicas
provide haunting ambience. Highlights include "Somos Novios" -
Perry Como had a hit with it as "It's Impossible" - and "The
Prayer," a duet with Heather Headley, David Foster and Carole
Bayer Sager's O® nominated song from Quest for Camelot.
Capping the program is a new song, "Because We Believe," by David
Foster with lyrics by Andrea Bocelli and Amy Foster Gillies which
was written for and introduced at the 2006 Torino Winter
Olympics.
Disc 1 DVD
1. Aola
2. Besame Mucho
3. Somos Novios
4. Canzoni Stonate
5. Pero Te Extrano
6. L'Appuntamento
7. Estate
8. September Morn
9. Can't Help Falling In Love
10. Mi Manchi
11. Jurame
12. Solamente Una Vez
13. Les Feuilles Mortes (Autumn Leaves)
14. Porque Tu Me Acostumbraste
15. Cuando do Me Enamoro
16. The Prayer
17. Momentos
18. Because We Believe
Disc 2 CD
1. Besame Mucho - live
2. Cuando Me Ennamoro - live
3. Estate with Chris Botti - studio version
4. September Morn - live
5. Can't Help Falling in Love - studio duet with Katharine
McPhee
6. Canzoni Stonate - new studio edit with Stevie Wonder
7. Momentos - live
8. Somos Novios - live
9. The Prayer - live duet with Heather Headley
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If music be the food of love, then Under the Desert Sky is an
Italian feast. Andrea Bocelli performs live at the Lake Las Ve
resort for this DVD and bonus CD, featuring some of the world's
greatest love songs. In straying from the largely classical
repertoire that helped shoot Bocelli to stardom, he is able to
take more contemporary material and give it the sheen of
timelessness. Most of the selections are in Italian, Spanish, or
French--Romance languages, naturally. Highlights include the
swoon-inducing "Aole," the pitch-perfect "Canzoni Stonate,"
and even a reverent "Can't Help Falling in Love." Through it all,
Bocelli's relaxed, self-effacing manner and confident delivery
make for an concert experience. Bocelli is also backed
by a terrific group of talented musicians, including pianist and
executive producer David Foster. A real show-stopper: Bocelli's
duet with the Tony-winning Aida singer Heather Headley; the
blending of their voices suggests the duets of Aaron Neville and
Linda Ronstadt at their most sublime. There's only one real
clunker: "Besame Mucho," which is so innately cheeseball that
trying to deliver it sincerely only makes it more cheesy.
Included is a CD with nine tracks, including a different version
of "Can't Help Falling in Love," with a duet by American Idol's
Katherine McPhee, and a soulful "Canzoni Stonate" with Stevie
Wonder. DVD extras include interviews with Bocelli, Foster, and
others (be sure to turn on your subtitles manually if you're not
an Italian speaker). That's amore! --A.T. Hurley
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From the Contributor
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"What I crave most, what I hope to achieve, is to communicate
with the listener; to touch them in the same way that I was
touched as a child by my favorite singers, who touched my heart,
inspired me, could make me cry and make me dream."
About the Actor
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Andrea Bocelli's voice has made him a phenomenon. With his
international debut album, Romanza, Andrea seduced millions of
willing music-lovers around the world. The true measure of the
phenomenon is the manner in which both man and voice reached out
to touch, in emotional communication rendering barriers of
language and culture immaterial.
A passionate desire for Andrea Bocelli's voice has spread across
the world like wildfire. For Andrea Bocelli possesses a truly
remarkable voice - a voice as palpably powerful as it is almost
ethereal. It is not simply an extraordinary voice which displays
power and fragility, but a potent instrument of emotion and
sensitivity which touches the heart, like music itself.
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