The house lights dim and a world of velvet and brocade, of choral gusts of passion and solo melodies of spun gold, radiates from the stage. This is grand opera, the most passionate and perfection-hungry of performing arts, and no moment in this opera season will be more closely scrutinized than the tension-filled instant when Andrea Bocelli strides on stage for his U.S. debut in the title role of "Werther" in October in Detroit. For American opera, broadening its audience, it could signal liftoff. In the music business, reshaped by the Bocelli crossover boom to the tune of 25 million CDs and counting, it might signal a shift back to the classics. For Bocelli himself it will cap a rushing crescendo of success. "In the beginning, I was happy just to give people joy with any singing. But to sing opera, to hear my voice in those arias I've loved since I was a boy, has been my lifelong dream," and so Bocelli says.
Enjoy the above navigation rule and read the fans impressions of Andrea's first major American opera performed in Detroit Michigan at the Detroit Opera House