Andrea Bocelli: Sacred Arias

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Overview

This DVD represents the home video release of a PBS holiday special featuring beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli. The sound is an excellent 5.1 surround mix. In addition to performing the bulk of the album of the same name, a handful of extra songs are performed as well. A special featurette documents the recording of the album Sacred Hymns. This disc is sure to bring joy to all fans of this amazing performer who has overcome blindness to become an international opera-singing ...
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Overview

This DVD represents the home video release of a PBS holiday special featuring beloved tenor Andrea Bocelli. The sound is an excellent 5.1 surround mix. In addition to performing the bulk of the album of the same name, a handful of extra songs are performed as well. A special featurette documents the recording of the album Sacred Hymns. This disc is sure to bring joy to all fans of this amazing performer who has overcome blindness to become an international opera-singing sensation.
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Special Features

The Hymn of Great Jubilee; Recording "Sacred Arias"
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Editorial Reviews

Barnes & Noble - Kevin Giordano
While his breakthrough CD Romanza confirmed that Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli could deliver extraordinary vocal performances, his DVD, Sacred Arias, shows why and how Bocelli came to stand among today's most beloved voices. The video cuts back and forth from a performance at the Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome, in March 1999, to interviews and footage of Bocelli with his family and friends. Director William Cosel has captured Rome in wonderful, enchanting shots, while focusing closely on Bocelli and his favorite spots in the Eternal City. Drawing on his boyhood love for sacred songs, Bocelli performs 17 classics, including Verdi's "Va, Pensiero," Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus," and Bach's "Ave Maria." Bocelli speaks about his early days growing up in Italy and attending church, when his love for this luminous music began to take shape. In performance, close-ups show Bocelli delivering fantastically difficult musical passages, while surrounded by the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, in a spectacle befitting his vast talents. His music may touch hearts worldwide, but this is an ideal chance for Bocelli's fans to know him as a man.
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Product Details

  • Release Date: 6/20/2000
  • UPC: 044007520321
  • Original Release: 2000

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  • Source: Philips
  • Region Code: 1
  • Presentation: Wide Screen / Dolby 5.1 / Stereo
  • Sound: Dolby Digital, stereo
  • Language: English
  • Time: 1:17:00
  • Format: DVD
  • Sales rank: 30,772

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Andrea Bocelli
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Scene Index

Side #1 --
0. Aria Selection
1. AVE MARIA Caccini/Mercurio [4:31]
2. AVE MARIA Bach/Gounod [4:16]
3. OMBRA MAI FU Handel Serse [2:20]
4. HALLELUJAH Handel Messiah [3:29]
5. AVE MARIA Schubert [2:49]
6. CUJUS ANIMAM Rossini Stabat Mater [5:49]
7. AMEN Rossini Stabat Mater [6:55]
8. INGEMISCO Verdi Requiem [4:10]
9. SANCTUS MARIA Mascagni/Mercurio [2:41]
10. DOMINE DEUS Rossini Petite Messe Solnnelle [4:48]
11. VA PENSIERO Verdi Nabucco [5:18]
12. PIETÀ, SIGNORE Niedermeyer [7:59]
13. PANIS ANGELIEUS Franck [4:26]
14. SANETA MARIA Mascagni/Mercurio [4:07]
15. ADESTE FIDELES (OCOME, ALL YE FAITHFUL) Trad. [3:28]
16. MILLE EHERUBINI IN CORO Schubert [5:46]
17. ASTRO DEL EIEL (SILEN NIGHT) Gruber [4:34]
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Menu

Side #1 --
   Play Concert
   Extra Features
      The Hymn Of The Great Jubilee
      Recording "sacred Arias"
   Audio
   Subtitles
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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 1, 2010

    too many instruments

    I love the way Andrea Bocelli sings. There was too much instrument playing on this DVD and not enough singing. Buy a night in Tuscany if you want to hear a lot of singing.

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