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{{Short description|Italian tenor (born 1958)}}
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| honorific_suffix = [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic|OMRI]] [[Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella|OMDSM]]
<code style="color:#0f0; background-color:#256; font-size:3em; border-radius:10px;> ''Tesseractic''</code>
| name = Andrea Bocelli
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| image = Andrea Bocelli 20190511 017-2 (cropped).jpg
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| caption = Bocelli in 2019
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1958|9|22}}
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| birth_place = [[Lajatico]], Italy
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| genre = {{hlist|[[Opera]]|[[operatic pop]]|[[Latin pop]]|[[Classical music|classical]]|[[traditional pop]]}}<!--Genres that are important to his career-->
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| occupation = Singer ([[tenor]])
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| years_active = 1992−present
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| label = {{hlist|[[Polydor]]|[[Decca Records|Decca]]|[[Universal Music Group|Universal]]}}
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'''Andrea Bocelli''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=[[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic|OMRI]] [[Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella|OMDSM]]}} ({{IPA|it|anˈdrɛːa boˈtʃɛlli|lang}}; born 22 September 1958)<ref name=biography.com /> is an Italian [[tenor]]. After performing evenings in [[piano bar]]s and competing in local singing contests, Bocelli signed his first recording contract with [[Sugar Music]]. He rose to fame in 1994 after winning the newcomers' section of the [[Sanremo Music Festival 1994|44th Sanremo Music Festival]] performing "[[Il mare calmo della sera (song)|Il mare calmo della sera]]".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hit Parade Italia - Festival di Sanremo 1994 |url=https://hitparadeitalia.it/sanremo/edizioni/1994.htm |access-date=13 January 2023 |website=hitparadeitalia.it |archive-date=13 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113142121/https://hitparadeitalia.it/sanremo/edizioni/1994.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Since 1994, Bocelli has recorded 15 solo studio albums of both [[Pop music|pop]] and [[classical music]], three greatest hits albums, and nine complete [[operas]], selling over 80 million records worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 3, 2022 |title=Andrea Bocelli interview: 'You can learn a lot from a woman like the Queen' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts/andrea-bocelli-interview-can-learn-lot-woman-like-queen/ |access-date=August 19, 2024 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref> He has had success as a [[Classical crossover|crossover]] performer, bringing classical music to the top of international pop charts.<ref name="Decca">{{cite web |title=Andrea Bocelli |url=http://www.decca.com/artists/andrea-bocelli-192 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430171029/http://www.decca.com/artists/andrea-bocelli-192 |archive-date=30 April 2011 |access-date=10 December 2013 |work=[[Decca Records]] |publisher=Universal Music}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Bearn|first=Emily|title=Operation Bocelli: the making of a superstar|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/25/1046064026608.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Age]]|date=26 February 2003|archive-date=24 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324224408/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/02/25/1046064026608.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Obama">{{cite news|last=Malitz|first=David|title='Christmas in Washington' sticks to the classics|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/12/AR2010121204423.html|access-date=27 July 2013|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=12 December 2010|archive-date=22 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122071820/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/12/AR2010121204423.html|url-status=live}}</ref> His album ''[[Romanza]]'' is one of the [[List of best selling albums|best-selling albums of all time]], while ''[[Sacred Arias (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sacred Arias]]'' is the biggest selling classical album by any solo artist in history.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://decca.com/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430171029/http://www.decca.com/artists/andrea-bocelli-192|title=Decca Records|archivedate=30 April 2011|website=Decca}}</ref> ''[[My Christmas]]'' was the [[Best-selling Christmas/holiday albums in the United States#2000s|best-selling holiday album of 2009]]<ref>{{cite web
|title = Taylor Swift Edges Susan Boyle For 2009's Top Selling Album
|publisher = [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]].com, 6 January 2010, article
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|access-date = 6 January 2010
|archive-date = 27 April 2014
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|url-status = live }}</ref>
<ref name="BW-2009YE">{{cite web
|title = The Nielsen Company 2009 Year-End Music Industry Report
|publisher = [[Business Wire|Businesswire]].com, 7 January 2010, article
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|url-status = live}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web
|title = Italian tenor's album sales top five million
|publisher = Thaindian News.com, 30 December 2009, article
|url = http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/entertainment/italian-tenors-album-sales-top-five-million_100296578.html
|access-date = 24 June 2010
|archive-date = 12 June 2010
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|url-status = live
}}</ref> and one of the [[List of best-selling Christmas albums in the United States#Best-selling Christmas albums from Nielsen SoundScan tracking data (through December 1, 2014)|best-selling holiday albums]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6334706/holidays-biggest-radio-and-album-hits |title=The Gifts That Keep on Giving: Biggest Radio and Album Hits of the Holidays |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date=1 December 2014 |access-date=1 December 2014 |archive-date=3 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203201632/http://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6334706/holidays-biggest-radio-and-album-hits |url-status=live }}</ref> The 2019 album ''[[Sì (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sì]]'' debuted at number one on the [[UK Albums Chart]] and US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], becoming Bocelli's first number-one album in both countries. His song "[[Con te partirò]]", included on his second album ''[[Bocelli (album)|Bocelli]]'', is one of the [[List of best-selling singles|best-selling singles of all time]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.early-sarah-brightman.com/timeless.htm |title=Angel records |access-date=22 April 2020 |archive-date=29 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729165647/http://www.early-sarah-brightman.com/timeless.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In 1998, Bocelli was named one of ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine's [[People (magazine)#100 Most Beautiful People|50 Most Beautiful People]].<ref name="People1998">{{cite journal|title=Andrea Bocelli: Singer|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20125222,00.html|journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=11 May 1998|volume=49|issue=18|access-date=10 December 2013|archive-date=13 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513150459/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20125222,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He duetted with [[Celine Dion]] on the song "[[The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)|The Prayer]]" for the animated film ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'', which won the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song]] and was nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]].<ref name="Decca"/> In 1999, he was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist]] at the [[Grammy Award]]s. He captured a listing in the ''[[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book of World Records]]'' with the release of his classical album ''[[Sacred Arias (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sacred Arias]]'', as he simultaneously held the top three positions on the US Classical Albums charts.<ref name="Decca"/>
 
Bocelli was made a Grand Officer of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]] in 2006, and was honored with a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] on 2 March 2010, for his contribution to Live Theater, and he was awarded a gold medal for Merit in Serbia in 2022. Singer [[Celine Dion]] has said that "if [[God]] would have a singing voice, he must sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli",<ref name="Decca"/><ref name="2009 Bocelli Interview"/> and record producer [[David Foster]] has often described Bocelli's voice as the most beautiful in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andreabocelli.com/|title=Andrea Bocelli - Sito Ufficiale - Tour, discografia e opere|access-date=23 April 2006|archive-date=30 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230001735/https://www.andreabocelli.com/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andreabocelli.com/en/|title=En Aranjuez con tu amor - Andrea Bocelli|access-date=4 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019065145/http://www.andreabocelli.com/en/|archive-date=19 October 2015|url-status=usurped}}</ref>
 
==Early life==
Bocelli was born to Alessandro and Edi Bocelli on 22 September 1958.<ref name="BlindAmbition">{{cite news|last1=Day|first1=Carol|title=Blind Ambition|url=http://people.com/archive/blind-ambition-vol-48-no-19/|work=People|access-date=22 July 2017|date=10 November 1997|quote=Bocelli's parents, Alessandro, 68, and Edi, 59, sold farm equipment and produced wine in tiny Lajatico, in [[Tuscany]] about 20 miles from [[Pisa]].|archive-date=16 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416112307/https://people.com/archive/blind-ambition-vol-48-no-19/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="TelegraphGordon"/> His sight was impaired from birth due to [[congenital glaucoma]]. He stated that his mother's decision to give birth to him and overrule the doctor's advice was the inspiration for him to oppose [[abortion]].<ref name="TelegraphGordon">{{cite news|author=Bryony Gordon|title=Andrea Bocelli: The truth about my friend – the strong-willed, kind and intelligent Silvio Berlusconi|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/8884646/Andrea-Bocelli-The-truth-about-my-friend-the-strong-willed-kind-and-intelligent-Silvio-Berlusconi.html|access-date=9 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=14 November 2011|author-link=Bryony Gordon|archive-date=14 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214123656/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/8884646/Andrea-Bocelli-The-truth-about-my-friend-the-strong-willed-kind-and-intelligent-Silvio-Berlusconi.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Bocelli grew up on his family's farm where they sold farm machinery and made wine in the small village of [[La Sterza]], a ''[[frazione]]'' of [[Lajatico]], Tuscany, Italy, about {{convert|40|km|abbr=on}} south of [[Pisa]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Sodomka|first=Dennis|title=Wine Time: Bocelli Prosecco NV, Italy|url=http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-10-08/wine-time-bocelli-prosecco-nv-italy|access-date=14 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Augusta Chronicle]]|date=8 October 2013|archive-date=15 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215054023/http://chronicle.augusta.com/things-do/applause/2013-10-08/wine-time-bocelli-prosecco-nv-italy|url-status=live}}</ref> His mother and younger brother Alberto still live in the family home; his father died in 2000.<ref>{{cite news|title=Interview: Andrea Bocelli, opera singer|url=http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/interview-andrea-bocelli-opera-singer-1-471747|access-date=14 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Scotsman]]|date=23 October 2009|archive-date=1 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151101081939/http://www.scotsman.com/what-s-on/music/interview-andrea-bocelli-opera-singer-1-471747|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Bocelli showed a great passion for music as a young boy. His mother has said that music was the only thing that would comfort him. He started piano lessons at age 6 and later learned to play the flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, guitar, and drums.<ref name="BlindAmbition"/> His nanny Oriana gave him the first record of [[Franco Corelli]], and he began to show interest in pursuing the career of a tenor.<ref name="Ability">{{cite news|title=Andrea Bocelli – Singing to the Top|url=http://abilitymagazine.com/andrea-bocelli.html|access-date=25 October 2013|newspaper=[[Ability (magazine)|Ability]]|date=October–November 2013|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029212319/http://www.abilitymagazine.com/andrea-bocelli.html|url-status=live}}</ref> By age 7, he was able to recognize the famous voices of the time and tried to emulate the great singers.<ref name="Ability"/>
 
At age 12, Bocelli lost his vision completely after being hit in the eye with a [[Ball (association football)|football]].<ref name="People1998"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Hooper|first=John|title=Tenor's story acclaimed by anti-abortion campaigners|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/10/andrea-bocelli-abortion-italy|access-date=28 July 2013|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=10 June 2010|archive-date=20 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920164124/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/10/andrea-bocelli-abortion-italy|url-status=live}}</ref> Doctors resorted to [[leech]]es in a last-ditch effort to save his sight, but they were unsuccessful and he remained blind.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pisa|first=Nick|title=Doctors tried to cure Andrea Bocelli's blindness with leeches|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8100281/Doctors-tried-to-cure-Andrea-Bocellis-blindness-with-leeches.html|access-date=9 December 2013|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=31 October 2010|archive-date=16 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416112312/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/8100281/Doctors-tried-to-cure-Andrea-Bocellis-blindness-with-leeches.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Bocelli also spent time singing during his childhood.<ref name="chronicle">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 1958–1991|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle.htm|access-date=20 January 2008|archive-date=4 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504214117/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> He gave his first concert in a small village not far from where he was born.<ref name="Ability"/> He won his first song competition at age 14 with "[['O sole mio]]" at the Margherita d'Oro in [[Viareggio]].<ref name="chronicle"/> He finished secondary school in 1980, and then studied law at the [[University of Pisa]].<ref name="BillboardMastersofAlbums">{{cite news|title=Andrea Bocelli to Receive Master's Degree|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5763005/andrea-bocelli-to-receive-masters-degree|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|date=18 October 2013|agency=AP|archive-date=24 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424095618/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/5763005/andrea-bocelli-to-receive-masters-degree|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="BlindAmbition"/> To earn money, he performed evenings in piano bars, and it was there that he met his future wife Enrica in 1987.<ref name="BlindAmbition"/> He completed law school and spent one year as a court-appointed lawyer.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rogers|first=Paul|title=Andrea Bocelli at the MGM Grand|url=https://www.latimes.com/custompublishing/vegas/la-ss-andrea-bocelli-at-the-mgm-grand-20130904-dto,0,3390210.story|access-date=21 December 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=5 September 2013|archive-date=5 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131205220747/http://www.latimes.com/custompublishing/vegas/la-ss-andrea-bocelli-at-the-mgm-grand-20130904-dto,0,3390210.story|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Career==
===1992–1994: Sanremo and ''Il mare calmo della sera''===
In 1992, Italian rock star [[Zucchero Fornaciari|Zucchero]] held auditions for tenors to make a [[Demo (music)|demo tape]] of his song "Miserere", to send to Italian tenor [[Luciano Pavarotti]]. After hearing Bocelli on tape, Pavarotti urged Zucchero to use Bocelli instead of him. Pavarotti eventually persuaded Zucchero to record the song with Bocelli, and it became a hit throughout Europe. In Zucchero's European concert tour in 1993, Bocelli accompanied him to sing the duet, and he was also given solo sets in the concerts, singing "[[Nessun dorma]]" from [[Giacomo Puccini]]'s opera ''[[Turandot]]''.<ref name="BOC1992">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 1991–1994|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1992.htm|access-date=20 January 2008|archive-date=25 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825222807/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1992.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Bocelli signed with the [[Sugar Music]] label in [[Milan]] after [[Caterina Caselli]] heard him sing "Miserere" and "Nessun Dorma" at a birthday party for Zucchero.{{fact|date=February 2024}}
 
In December, Bocelli entered the preliminary round of the [[Sanremo Music Festival 1994|Sanremo Music Festival]] in the category of Giovani, performing "Miserere". He won the preliminary competition with the highest marks ever recorded in the newcomers section. On 28 December, he debuted in the classical world in a concert at the [[Teatro Romolo Valli]] in [[Reggio Emilia]].<ref name="BOC1992"/> In February 1994, he entered the main Sanremo Festival competition with "[[Il mare calmo della sera (song)|Il mare calmo della sera]]", and he won the newcomers section, again with a record score. Following his win, Bocelli released his debut album [[Il Mare Calmo della Sera|of the same name]] in April, and it entered the Italian Top Ten, being certified [[Music recording sales certification|platinum]] within weeks.<ref name="BOC1992"/>
 
In May 1994, he toured with pop singer [[Gerardina Trovato]].<ref name="BOC1992"/> In September, he sang at Pavarotti's annual Charity Gala concert, ''Pavarotti International'' in [[Modena]], where he sang [[Ruggiero Leoncavallo]]'s "Mattinata" and sang a duet with Pavarotti, [[:it:Maurizio Morante]]'s "Notte e Piscatore".<ref name="BOC1992"/> In September, he made his opera debut as [[Macduff (Macbeth)|Macduff]] in Verdi's ''[[Macbeth (Verdi)|Macbeth]]'' at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa.<ref name="PBS8">{{cite web|last=Ardoin|first=John|author-link=John Ardoin|title=Bocelli and Chung|publisher=[[PBS]]|year=2007|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/andreabocelli/essay3.html|access-date=20 January 2008|archive-date=7 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907121944/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/shows/andreabocelli/essay3.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Bocelli had been an agnostic, but around 1994, partly as a result of immersing himself in the works of Russian author [[Leo Tolstoy]], he returned to the practice of the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] faith.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bocelli, l' inno per il Papa nasce a Lourdes|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1999/settembre/21/Bocelli_inno_per_Papa_nasce_co_0_9909214577.shtml|access-date=9 December 2013|newspaper=Corriere Della Sera|date=21 September 1999|language=it|archive-date=12 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212004046/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1999/settembre/21/Bocelli_inno_per_Papa_nasce_co_0_9909214577.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> He performed the hymn "[[Adeste Fideles]]" in Rome before [[Pope John Paul II]] in [[St. Peter's Basilica]] at Christmas.<ref name="BOC1992"/>
 
===1995–1997: ''Bocelli'' and ''Romanza''===
As winner of the newcomers section at the 1994 Sanremo Festival, Bocelli was invited to return the [[Sanremo Music Festival 1995|following year]]. He entered the main competition with "[[Con te partirò]]" and finished in fourth place.<ref name="BOC1995">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 1995–1997|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1995.htm|access-date=20 January 2008|archive-date=26 October 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001026171119/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1995.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The song was included on his second album, ''[[Bocelli (album)|Bocelli]]'', produced by [[Mauro Malavasi]] and released in November 1995. In Belgium, "Con te partirò" became the best-selling single of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bocellionline.com/Bio.html |title=Andrea Bocelli Online Biography |publisher=Bocellionline.com |access-date=6 June 2012 |url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827214958/http://www.bocellionline.com/Bio.html |archive-date=27 August 2013 }}</ref>
 
His third album, ''[[Viaggio Italiano]]'', was released in Italy in 1996.<ref name="BOC1995"/> He was invited to sing a duet with English soprano [[Sarah Brightman]] at the final bout of German [[Boxer (boxing)|boxer]] [[Henry Maske]]. Brightman approached Bocelli after she heard him singing "Con te partirò" while she was dining in a restaurant. Changing the title lyric of the song to "[[Con te partirò|Time to Say Goodbye]]", they re-recorded it as a duet with members of the [[London Symphony Orchestra]] and sang it as a farewell for Maske.<ref name="Liebergen2008">{{cite book|last=Liebergen|first=Patrick M.|title=Singer's Library of Arias: 15 Vocal Masterworks from the Baroque Era Through the Twenty-First Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VnS5WNme3skC&pg=PA81|date=July 2008|publisher=Alfred Music Publishing|isbn=978-0-7390-5142-9|page=81|access-date=29 January 2018|archive-date=3 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303193325/https://books.google.com/books?id=VnS5WNme3skC&pg=PA81|url-status=live}}</ref> The single debuted atop the German charts, where it stayed for fourteen weeks. With sales nearing three million copies, and a sextuple platinum award, "Time to Say Goodbye" eclipsed the previous best-selling single by more than one million copies.<ref name="BOC1995"/> In 1996 he topped the Spanish singles chart with a duet with [[Marta Sánchez]], "Vivo por ella", the Spanish version of "[[Vivo per lei]]", recorded with Giorgia for his 1997 compilation album, ''[[Romanza]]''. He also recorded a Portuguese version of the song with Brazilian singer [[Sandy (Brazilian singer)|Sandy]].{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
 
The same year, Bocelli recorded "Je vis pour elle", the French version of "Vivo per lei", as a duet with French singer [[Hélène Ségara]]. Released in December 1997, the song became a hit in Belgium (Wallonia) and France, where it reached No. 1 on the charts. To date, it is the best-selling single for Ségara, and the second for Bocelli after "Time to Say Goodbye". On 3 March, he appeared in [[Hamburg]], Germany, with Sarah Brightman to receive the ECHO music award for "[[Echo (music award)#Single of the Year (National)|Best Single of the Year]]".<ref name="BOC1995"/>
 
In the summer of 1997, he gave 22 open-air concerts in Germany, and an indoor concert in [[Oberhausen]] on 31 August. In September, he performed in concert at the [[Piazza dei Cavalieri]] in Pisa for the home video ''[[A Night in Tuscany]]'' ({{langx|it|una notte nella Toscana}}) with guests [[Nuccia Focile]], Sarah Brightman and Zucchero. The concert was also Bocelli's first concert to air on PBS, as part of the ''In The Spotlight'' series. It also marked Bocelli's debut to American audiences. On 14 September, in [[Munich]], Germany, he received an [[ECHO Klassik]] Best Seller of the Year award for his album, ''Viaggio Italiano''.<ref name="BOC1995" /><ref name="echo1997">{{cite news|title=ECHO Klassik 1997 winners |language=de |publisher=[[Echo (music award)|ECHO]] |url=http://www.echo-deutscher-musikpreis.de/echo/echo_klassik_1997_gewinner.htm |access-date=20 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107235337/http://www.echo-deutscher-musikpreis.de/echo/echo_klassik_1997_gewinner.htm |archive-date=7 January 2009 }}</ref>
 
Back in Italy in Bologna on 27 September, he sang at the [[International Eucharistic Congress]]. On 19 October, he sang at the [[TeleFood]] benefit concert held in the [[Vatican City]] to raise awareness about world hunger. On 25 October, he received a [[Bambi Award]] in the Klassik category in Cologne, Germany.<ref name="BOC1995" />
 
===1998–1999: ''Aria: The Opera Album'', ''Sogno'' and ''Sacred Arias''===
Bocelli made his debut in a major operatic role in 1998 when he played Rodolfo in a production of ''[[La bohème]]'' at the Teatro Comunale in [[Cagliari]] from 18 to 25 February.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Berger|first1=Kevin|title=Beyond the criticism: Deconstructing Andrea Bocelli's voice|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/beyond-the-criticisms-deconstructing-andrea-bocellis-voice.html|access-date=29 January 2018|work=Los Angeles Times|date=8 December 2010|archive-date=29 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129140614/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/beyond-the-criticisms-deconstructing-andrea-bocellis-voice.html|url-status=live}}</ref> His fifth album ''[[Aria: The Opera Album]]'' was released in March.<ref name="BOC1998">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 1998|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1998.htm|access-date=20 January 2008|archive-date=26 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826213249/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1998.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 19 April, Bocelli made his United States debut with a concert at the [[John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]] in Washington, D.C., followed the next day by a reception at the [[White House]] with then US President [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name="BOC1998"/> On 5 May, he appeared in [[Monte Carlo]], winning two [[World Music Awards]], one in the category "Best Italian Singer", and one for "Best Classical Interpretation".<ref name="BOC1998"/><ref name="IHT6768960">
{{cite news|title=People|work=[[International Herald Tribune]]|date=8 May 1998|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-6768960.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103051442/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-6768960.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 November 2012|access-date=20 January 2008}}</ref> He was also named one of [[People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People|''People'' magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People]] of 1998.<ref name="People1998"/>
 
From June to August, he toured North and South America. In September, he received his second Echo Klassik award, this time for Best Selling Classical Album with ''Aria: The Opera Album''.<ref name="BOC1998" /> On Thanksgiving Eve, Bocelli was a guest on [[Céline Dion]]'s television special ''These Are Special Times'' in which he joined Dion to sing "[[The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)|The Prayer]]" and he also sang "[[Ave Maria (Vavilov)|Ave Maria]]" solo. The duet was included on Dion's album ''[[These Are Special Times]]'' (1998) and was re-issued with the DVD of the TV special in 2007. The song also appeared on the ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' soundtrack in 1998 and on Bocelli's album, ''[[Sogno]]'', the following year.
 
In the New Year, he performed two concerts at the [[Bellagio (resort)|Bellagio]] hotel in Las Vegas. At the [[56th Golden Globe Awards]] held on 24 January, "The Prayer" won the [[Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song#1990s|Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song]] from the film ''Quest for Camelot''.<ref name="BOC1999">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 1999|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1999.htm|access-date=20 January 2008|archive-date=25 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825222630/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1999.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> At the [[41st Grammy Awards]] ceremony on 24 February, Bocelli was nominated for [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist#1990s|Best New Artist]], which was won by [[Lauryn Hill]].<ref name="Decca"/> Bocelli and Dion sang "The Prayer" at the ceremony.<ref name="BOC1999"/> The song was also nominated for an [[Academy Award for Best Original Song]] and performed by Bocelli and Dion at the ceremony held at the [[Los Angeles Music Center]] on 21 March.<ref name="BOC1999"/>
 
From 11 to 24 April, he toured the West Coast of North America, from [[San Diego]] to [[Vancouver]], with a final performance at the [[Hollywood Bowl]] in Los Angeles. Actress [[Elizabeth Taylor]] stood by his side on the stage during the encore, while he sang "The Prayer".<ref name="BOC1999"/> At the invitation of [[Steven Spielberg]], Bocelli sang in Los Angeles on 15 May before Bill Clinton at an event on behalf of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. At the end of May, he toured Portugal and Spain and sang with Portuguese [[Fado]] singer [[Dulce Pontes]]. On 27 June, he took part in the [[Michael Jackson]] benefit concert for suffering children in Munich's [[Olympic Stadium (Munich)|Olympic Stadium]].<ref name="BOC1999"/>
 
From 10 July to 27 August, he appeared in a guest role for seven performances of ''[[The Merry Widow]]'' at the [[Verona Arena]].<ref name="PBS8"/><ref name="BOC1999"/> As the "Tenor Conte Andrea" he performed three arias: "[[La donna è mobile]]" from Verdi's ''[[Rigoletto]]''; "Tu, che m' hai preso il cuor" from [[Franz Lehár]]'s ''[[Das Land Des Laechelns]]'' and "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" from Verdi's ''La traviata''.<ref name="BOC1999"/> On 10 September, together with soprano [[Daniela Dessì]] and two Polish singers, he performed at the [[Grand Theatre, Łódź|Grand Theatre]] of [[Łódź]] in Poland. From 7 October to 19 November, he made his United States operatic debut in [[Jules Massenet]]'s ''[[Werther]]'' at the [[Detroit Opera House]] with the Michigan Opera Theater.<ref name="PBS8"/>
 
He also performed at [[Rodeo Drive]] in Beverly Hills and gave further concerts in Detroit, [[Cleveland]] and Chicago, and made an appearance on Jay Leno's first installment of ''[[The Tonight Show]]''. Then [[Mayor of New York City]] [[Rudy Giuliani]] gave him the Crystal Apple award. His seventh album ''[[Sacred Arias (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sacred Arias]]'', which contains exclusively [[sacred music]], was released worldwide on 8 November, and two weeks later reached number one on the US [[Billboard charts|Classic Billboard charts]] – making Bocelli the first vocalist to hold all top three places on the chart, with ''Aria, the opera album'' in second place, and ''Viaggio Italiano'' in third place. The album also included the hymn of the Holy Year 2000, which was chosen as the official version by the Vatican in October.<ref name="BOC1999"/> To promote ''Sacred Arias'', Bocelli recorded [[Sacred Arias: The Home Video|his second PBS concert]] at the Roman church of [[Santa Maria sopra Minerva]], in Rome, in 1999, singing most of the songs from the album. The special was nominated for an [[Emmy Award]] for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program during the [[52nd Primetime Emmy Awards]].
 
In Italy, Bocelli sang in [[Florence]] at a meeting of the centre-left Heads of State<!--This is cryptic ... what event was this? The linking was deceptive, anyway.-->. Invited by [[Queen Elizabeth II]], he performed at the annual [[Royal Variety Performance]] in Birmingham, UK, on 29 November. On 30 November, his book ''La musica del silenzio'', an autobiographical novel, was released in Italy,<ref name="BOC1999"/> and in 2017 it was turned into a movie as ''[[The Music of Silence]]'', directed by [[Michael Radford]]. From 12 to 21 December, he performed six concerts in [[Barcelona]], [[Strasbourg]], Lisbon, [[Zagreb]], [[Budapest]] and [[Messina]], some of which were broadcast on local television. He also performed on German television; ''[[Wetten, dass..?]]'' on 11 December and the [[José Carreras]] Gala in [[Leipzig]] on 17 December. On 31 December, he finished a marathon twenty-four concerts in thirty days, with a concert at the [[Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum]] in New York, welcoming in the new millennium.<ref name="BOC1999"/>
 
===2000–2001: ''Verdi'' and ''Cieli di Toscana''===
At the [[42nd Grammy Awards]], Bocelli was nominated twice. "The Prayer" was nominated for [[Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals]] and for [[Best Male Pop Vocal Performance]]. Bocelli performed it with Dion at the ceremony. His "World Tour 2000" started on 31 March. In May, his ''Sacred Arias'' album was voted album of the year by listeners of the [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]] radio station in the UK. His world tour continued from 12 to 14 May with four concerts in Japan and South Korea. At the end of the [[UEFA Euro 2000|UEFA European Football Championship]], he performed with [[Valery Gergiev]] and [[Renée Fleming]] at a concert on the [[Meuse (river)|River Maas]] in [[Rotterdam]]. On 6 July, he performed at the [[Statue of Liberty]] in New York City for his third PBS special ''[[American Dream: Andrea Bocelli's Statue Of Liberty Concert]]''. The concert was a dedication to his father, who died in the beginning of 2000. He was accompanied by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro [[Steven Mercurio]] with special guest Soprano Ana Maria Martinez and a surprise appearance by Sarah Brightman to sing with Bocelli on "Time to Say Goodbye". For the final encore, he dedicated "Sogno" to his late Father. On 17 August, he performed in Giuseppe Verdi's ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Messa da Requiem]]'' at the Verona Arena in Rome.
 
His seventh album, ''[[Verdi (album)|Verdi]]'', was released on 11 September. In September, he performed three concerts in Australia. He received another Echo Klassik award for "Bestseller of the year" for ''[[Sacred Arias (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sacred Arias]]''. In November, his first complete opera recording, ''La Bohème'', was released. In December, he received another award in Germany, the [[Goldene Europa]] for classical music.<ref name="BOC2000">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 2000|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2000.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=26 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826122427/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2000.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In January 2001, Bocelli portrayed the main character in [[Pietro Mascagni|Mascagni]]'s opera ''[[L'amico Fritz]]'' at the Teatro Filarmonico in [[Verona]] and again performed the tenor part in Verdi's ''Requiem''. On 19 March, the ''Requiem'' album was released with Bocelli as tenor. From 22 March to 6 April, he toured North America accompanied by [[Cecilia Gasdia]] and the [[Hartford Symphony Orchestra]]. On 17 June, he performed at the re-opening of the [[Leaning Tower of Pisa]]. In July, he performed two concerts in [[Dublin]] with [[Ana María Martínez]] and the [[New Symphony Orchestra]]. At the [[Scuola Grande di San Rocco]] in Venice on 4 October, he presented his new album ''Cieli di Toscana'' and was recognised for having sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. In October, he opened the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the birth of [[Sicilian people|Sicilian]] opera composer [[Vincenzo Bellini]] in [[Catania]]. On 28 October, he sang Franz Schubert's ''[[Ellens dritter Gesang]]'' (also known as "Ave Maria", Latin for "Hail Mary") as a representative of the Catholic faith, during a memorial concert at [[Ground Zero]] in New York City for the victims of the [[September 11 attacks]] there. In November, he received the Platinum Europe Award for one million sales of the album ''Cieli di Toscana'', and at the [[Italian Music Awards]] he was given a special award from the [[Federation of the Italian Music Industry]] for his merits as an "Ambassador of Italian music in the world". He performed seven more concerts in the US accompanied by [[Ana María Martínez]], and on 23 December, he sang the [[Italian national anthem]] as well as works of Bellini and Verdi at the traditional Christmas concert in the [[Italian Senate]], which was broadcast live on television for the first time.<ref name="BOC2001">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 2001|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2001.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=26 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826213159/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2001.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
===2002–2005: ''Sentimento'' and ''Andrea''===
[[File:Tony Celine Bocelli.jpg|thumb|left|Bocelli with [[Celine Dion]] and [[Tony Renis]] in 2002]]
 
In Berlin on 5 February, he received a [[Goldene Kamera]] award in the "Music & Entertainment" category. On 6 March, he received two World Music Awards in Monte Carlo: "World best selling classical artist" and "Best selling Italian artist". On 11 March, he gave a concert for peace at the [[St Mark's Basilica|Basilica di San Marco a Venezia]] in Venice, accompanied by the orchestra of the [[La Fenice|Teatro La Fenice]] and conducted by [[Lorin Maazel]]. On 15 March, he took part in the opening of [[Walt Disney Studios Park]] in [[Marne-la-Vallée]] France. On 7 May, Bocelli and Tony Renis received a [[Telegatto]] Italian Television award for the soundtrack of the series ''[[Heart (novel)|Cuore]]''. On 23 May he received the [[Classical BRIT Awards#2002|2002 Classical BRIT Award]] for "Outstanding Contribution to Music".<ref name="BBC2005196">{{cite news|title=Salford singer wins again|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2005196.stm|access-date=9 December 2013|newspaper=BBC News|date=23 May 2002|archive-date=10 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110104654/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2005196.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> On 27 May, he performed at the [[Villa Madama]] in Rome in front of US president [[George W. Bush]] and Italian president [[Silvio Berlusconi]]. On 28 May, he took part in "Pavarotti & Friends" charity concert in [[Modena]] in aid of [[Angola]]. In June he again toured the US, then on 26 July and 3 August, he portrayed [[Lieutenant Pinkerton|Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton]] in ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'' at the 48th Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago. On 14 October, he and Lorin Maazel presented his new album ''[[Sentimento]]'' to a worldwide audience. Further presentations took place in Milan and New York, and the album was released on 4 November, selling over two million copies in 40 days. On 24 October, he started his ''Sentimento'' tour in [[Zürich]]; the tour took in large arenas in several European and North American cities.<ref name="BOC2002">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 2002|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2002.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=25 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825222539/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2002.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In February 2003, Bocelli performed ''Madama Butterfly'' in an exclusive Monte Carlo concert, which was attended by [[Caroline, Princess of Hanover]]. In March for the first time he appeared as a producer, at the Sanremo Festival, where the young artists Allunati and Jacqueline Ferry sang for his new record label, Clacksong.<ref name="BOC2003">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 2003|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2003.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=27 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827113650/http://bocelli.de/en/chronicle2003.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In May, his second complete opera, ''[[Tosca]]'', was released.<ref>Giacomo Puccini, ''Tosca''. Fiorenza Cedolins, Andrea Bocelli, Carlo Guelfi and others, Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra, Zubin Mehta, Decca 473 710-2.</ref> It did not attract unanimous praise, though. [[Andreas Dorschel]] notices "monochrome timbre" and "little dynamic variability" in Bocelli's performance: "Whatever is suffered by Cavaradossi − torture for instance or the prospect of execution −: Bocelli does not seem to register it, but goes on in the musical equivalent of Stoic indifference."<ref>Andreas Dorschel, 'The World's Favourite Tenor', ''[[Lettre International]]'' no. 120 (Spring 2018), pp. 136−137, p. 136.</ref> At a private benefit gala for the [[Royal National Institute of Blind People]], Bocelli sang in front of the [[British Royal Family]].<ref name="BOC2003"/> A day later, he received two awards for ''Sentimento'' at the [[Classical BRIT Awards#2003|2003 Classical BRIT Award]] held at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London – "Best selling classical album" and "Album of the year".<ref name="BBC2931456">{{cite news|title=Bocelli tops Classical Brits|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2931456.stm|access-date=9 December 2013|newspaper=BBC News|date=23 May 2003|archive-date=10 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140110095837/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2931456.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> On 24 May, he performed in a benefit concert for the [[Arpa Foundation for Film, Music and Art]] in the [[Piazza del Campo]] in [[Siena]], with sopranos [[Maria Luigia Borsi]] and Lucia Dessanti, [[baritone]] Soo Kyung Ahn, and violinist Ruth Rogers, accompanied by Marcello Rota and the Orchestra Città di Pisa. Three days later, he was again invited to perform at "Pavarotti & Friends" in Modena and sang a medley of [[Music of Naples|Neapolitan songs]] together with Pavarotti. In June, he continued his ''Sentimento'' tour in [[Athens]] and [[Cyprus]]. In September, he took part in a concert for the Justice ministers and Interior ministers of the European Union at the [[Parco della Musica]] in Rome. He then resumed his tour, accompanied by [[Maria Luigia Borsi]], Ruth Rogers and Marcello Rota.<ref name="BOC2003"/>
 
Bocelli won the "Favourite Specialist Performer" award at the UK National Music Awards in October 2003.<ref name="BBC3216767">{{cite news|title=Pop Idols dominate music awards|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3216767.stm|access-date=9 December 2013|newspaper=BBC News|date=27 October 2003|archive-date=14 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214113142/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3216767.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> In November, he once again toured in the United States, this time accompanied by Ana Maria Martinez, [[Kallen Esperian]] and [[Steven Mercurio]]. In December, he gave his first concert in China and at the end of the month, sang Gounod's ''Ave Maria'' at Pavarotti's wedding in Modena.<ref name="BOC2003"/>
 
In Bologna in January, he performed as [[Werther#Principal characters|Werther]] in four performances of the opera of the same name. In April and May, he toured Asia again, visiting Manila, Hong Kong and Singapore. In May, he took part in a concert at [[Circo Massimo]] in Rome organised by [[Quincy Jones]] to launch the "[[Quincy Jones#Activism|We are the Future]]" project. In June, his third complete opera ''[[Il trovatore]]'' was released. In July, he played the part of Mario Cavaradossi in ''Tosca'' at the 50th Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, and he took part in the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) global campaign for the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in Athens.<ref name="BOC2004">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 2004|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2004.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=26 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826121943/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2004.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In September, he performed his "Once in a Lifetime" tour in Australia with concerts in Sydney and Melbourne and one concert in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he was joined on stage by New Zealand soprano [[Hayley Westenra]].<ref name="BOC2004_3">{{cite web|title=Once in a Lifetime Tour|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert/2004_3.htm|access-date=21 January 2008}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
 
On 15 October, he performed at the [[Great Hall of the People]] in Beijing, China, and on 17 October at the Great Hall in Shanghai.<ref name="BOC2004_4">{{cite web|title=Asia Tour|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert/2004_4.htm|access-date=21 January 2008}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref>
 
During early 2005, Bocelli was on tour including performances in [[Madeira]], Hungary, Norway, US, UK, Italy and Germany.<ref name="BOC2005">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 2005|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2005.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=26 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826213339/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2005.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> He also appeared in ''[[Sesame Street]]'' singing "Time to Say Goodnight", a parody of "Time to Say Goodbye", as a lullaby to [[Elmo]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Sesame Street Parody Descriptions|url=http://www.sesameworkshop.org/aboutus/pressroom/presskits/season36/parody.php|access-date=15 December 2013|newspaper=[[Sesame Workshop]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080119132344/http://www.sesameworkshop.org/aboutus/pressroom/presskits/season36/parody.php|archive-date=19 January 2008}}</ref> On 21 March, he performed at the ''Music for Asia'' benefit concert in Rome, televised on [[Italia 1]], in aid of the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]] appeal.<ref name="BOC2005_1">{{cite web|title=Asia Tour|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live2005_1.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=15 April 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050415025111/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live2005_1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In June, he performed at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin. On 2 July, he performed at the Paris concert as part of the [[Live 8]] event. Also during the second part of the year, he performed in Croatia, [[Serbia]], Italy, the US, [[Dubai]], Switzerland and finally in Scandinavia.<ref name="BOC2005"/> On 28 August, he performed at the [[Faenol Festival]] held in [[Vaynol]], Wales and organised by Welsh [[bass-baritone]] [[Bryn Terfel]].<ref name="BOC2005_1"/> In December, his first contemporary music concert took place at a [[Lake Las Vegas]] village resort in [[Nevada]], US, which was recorded for [[PBS]] and released as the ''[[Under the Desert Sky]]'' DVD. He also took part in the Royal Christmas Show, which took place in several cities in the US in December. The album ''Werther'' was released in December.
 
===2006–2007: ''Amore'' and ''Vivere, Greatest hits''===
[[File:Bocelli.jpg|thumb|Bocelli rehearsing for his ''[[Under the Desert Sky]]'' concert in [[Lake Las Vegas]], 2006]]
 
On 18 February, he sang at the [[Toyota Center]] in [[Houston]] during the [[National Basketball Association]]'s (NBA) 2006 [[NBA All-Star Weekend|All-Star Weekend]], and broadcast live on the [[TNT (U.S. TV network)|TNT]] Cable television network.<ref name="NBA060215">{{cite news|title=John Legend and Carrie Underwood Set for All-Star Halftime Show|publisher=[[National Basketball Association|NBA]]|year=2006|url=http://www.nba.com/allstar2006/Legend_Underwood_060215.html|access-date=20 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080103090303/http://www.nba.com/allstar2006/Legend_Underwood_060215.html|archive-date=3 January 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
On 26 February, Bocelli sang "Because We Believe" from his ''Amore'' album in the Carnevale section of the [[2006 Winter Olympics closing ceremony|closing ceremony of the Torino Olympics]].<ref name="BOC2006">{{cite web|title=Bocelli 2006 Chronicle|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2006.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=8 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110108090004/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle2006.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> He also began another tour with a concert at the Piazza di Castello in Turin.<ref name="BOC2006_1">{{cite web|title=2006 tour (1)|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2006_1.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=26 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826022510/http://bocelli.de/en/live/concert2006_1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> In March, he was honoured by the Italian state with a [[Italian orders of merit|Grande Ufficiale Italian Order of Merit]] (Grand Officer of the Italian Republic), given to him by then President of the Italian Republic, [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]]. The award was presented to him at the Sanremo Festival, where he performed a duet with American singer [[Christina Aguilera]] on 4 March.<ref name="BOC2006"/><ref name="radioitalia1169">{{cite news|title=Pausini, Bocelli e Ramazotti: Onorificenze e serata finale del festival |language=it |publisher=[[Radio Italia Solo Musica Italiana]] |date=22 February 2006 |url=http://www.radioitalia.dit/web/news/news.php?idNews=1169 |access-date=21 January 2008 }}{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
 
From 31 March to 2 April, he took part in the Maggio Musicale in Florence, where he sang the ''Canto di pace (Canto of peace)'' by [[Marco Tutino]]<ref name="cultura3743">{{cite news|title=FIRENZE – Bocelli e il canto di Pace nato alle Muse|language=it|publisher=cultura.marche.it|date=March 2006|url=http://www.cultura.marche.it/CMDirector.aspx?idN=3743|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=3 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203020805/http://www.cultura.marche.it/CMDirector.aspx?idN=3743|url-status=live}}</ref> and the tenor part from [[Gioachino Rossini]]'s ''[[Messa di Gloria (Rossini)|Messa di Gloria]]'', and in Naples where he took part in Rossini's [[Petite messe solennelle]].<ref name="BOC2006"/><ref name="BOC2006_1"/>
 
In April 2006, he featured as a guest coach on ''[[American Idol (season 5)|American Idol]]'', helping the finalists sing the week's themed songs, "Greatest Love Songs". He also performed on that week's results show.<ref name="BG060611">{{cite news|last=Dyer |first=Richard |title=From 'American Idol' to Boston divo |publisher=[[J. C. Penney]] |date=11 June 2006 |url=http://www.boston.com.news/globe/living/articles/2006/06/11/from_american_idol_to_boston_divo/?page=1 |access-date=22 January 2008 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> American Idol runner-up [[Katharine McPhee]] performed at three of Bocelli's concerts in California from 9 to 11 June, singing duets of ''Somos Novios'' and ''The Prayer'' with Bocelli. They also performed on ''[[J. C. Penney]] Jam: The Concert for America's Kids''<ref name="JCP852901">{{cite news|title=Dr. Phil and Music Superstars Join Forces for ''JCPENNEY JAM...THE CONCERT FOR AMERICA'S KIDS'' Mega Event to Air on CBS-TV During Back to School |publisher=[[J. C. Penney]] |date=March 2006 |url=http://www.ir.jcpenney.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=70528&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=852901&highlight |access-date=21 January 2008 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and recorded duet versions of ''Somos Novios'' for the resulting album, and also ''[[Can't Help Falling in Love]]'' on the CD of the [[Under the Desert Sky]] DVD.
 
In June, he sang the Italian duet version of "[[Because We Believe]]", "Ama, credi e vai", with [[Gianna Nannini]] at the "großen Fan Party" at the opening of the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]], in Berlin in front of billions of worldwide television viewers.
 
On 1 July 2007, Bocelli performed "[[The Music of the Night]]" from [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]'s ''[[The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)|The Phantom of the Opera]]'', in a special musicals medley during the [[Concert for Diana]] at [[Wembley Stadium]] in London, England.<ref name="BBC070701">{{cite news|title=Concert for Diana Timeline: What's happened minute by minute|publisher=[[BBC Entertainment]]|date=1 July 2007|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/1/concertfordiana/timeline/|access-date=22 January 2008}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Bocelli returned to his home town for a concert at the newly created [[Teatro del Silenzio]] in [[Lajatico]] on 5 July 2007, with guest appearances by [[Kenny G]], [[Heather Headley]], [[Lang Lang]], [[Elisa (Italian singer)|Elisa]], [[Sarah Brightman]] and [[Laura Pausini]]. The concert was later released as ''[[Vivere Live in Tuscany]]''. In September, he debuted at the [[Avery Fisher Hall]], in New York, with four concerts. October saw the release of the opera album of [[Ruggiero Leoncavallo]]'s ''[[Pagliacci]]'' with Bocelli singing the role of [[Pagliacci#Roles|Canio]]. In November, he won the "Best Italian Artist" and "World's Best-selling Classical Artist" awards at the [[World Music Awards#2006 show|World Music Awards]]. In December, he finished his 2006 tour with more concerts in North America and Europe.<ref name="BOC2006"/>
 
Bocelli and Sarah Brightman's duet version of "Con te partirò" was used in the 2007 film ''[[Blades of Glory]]'', as an ice skating song. [[K-1]] [[mixed martial arts]] fighter [[Yoshihiro Akiyama]] started using "Con te partirò" as his ring entrance music. On 8 September, Bocelli sang an arrangement of Mozart's ''[[Ave verum corpus (Mozart)|Ave verum corpus]]'' at the funeral of Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Italy.
 
On 21 October 2007, he sang "Con te partirò" on the UK television series ''[[Strictly Come Dancing]]'' results show, and on 30 October, he sang "The Prayer" during an ITV Special ''An Audience with Céline Dion''. The show was broadcast on 23 December. Alongside fellow Italian singer [[Laura Pausini]], he sang ''Vive Ya'' during the 2007 Latin Grammy Awards. The song, originally released in 1997 as a duet in Italian between Bocelli and Italian singer-songwriter Trovatto on Bocelli's ''[[Romanza]]'', was also released in English on his 2007 album, ''[[The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere]]'', as ''Dare to Live''. The album, ''[[The Best of Andrea Bocelli: Vivere|Vivere]]'', sold over 3 million copies.
 
===2008: ''Incanto'' and ''Carmen''===
On 20 January 2008, Bocelli received the Italian TV award [[Telegatto]] in platinum for ''Italian music in the world'', in Rome. He sang "La voce del silenzio" – "The voice of silence" – and "Dare to Live" during the ceremony.<ref name="BOC2008">{{cite news|title=live2008|publisher=Bocelli.de|year=2008|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live2008_1.htm|access-date=24 December 2008|archive-date=18 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718204234/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live2008_1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
[[File:VeronicaBerti.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Bocelli with his then fiancée Veronica Berti in Tokyo, Japan, during his ''2008 Asian Tour'']]
 
To promote the album, he performed "[[Canto della Terra]]" at ''[[The Alan Titchmarsh Show]]'' on the BBC in London on 1 February; was interviewed by [[Fabio Fazio]] on the Italian talk show ''[[Che tempo che fa]]'' on [[RAI 3]] in Italy; and performed "Canto della terra", "A te" and "Besame mucho" from the album, as well as "[[My Way]]" on 2 February; and made an appearance on ''[[The South Bank Show]]'' in London, where he sang the French [[aria]] "Pour mon âme" on 3 February. Then on 10 February, he performed "The Prayer" at the [[50th Grammy Awards]], held in Los Angeles, with [[Josh Groban]] in a tribute to [[Luciano Pavarotti]], and sang "[[Vivere (Dare to Live)|Dare to Live]]" with [[Heather Headley]] the following day on ''[[The Tonight Show with Jay Leno]]''.<ref name="BOC2008" />
 
In April, he toured in Asia with performances in Tokyo, [[Taichung]], and Seoul.<ref name="BOC2008 concert1">{{cite news|title=live concert2008/1|publisher=Bocelli.de|year=2008|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_1.htm|access-date=24 December 2008|archive-date=11 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911232956/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 7 May 2008, he sang at [[Steel Aréna]] in [[Košice]], Slovakia, in front of 8,000 people.<ref name="BOC2008 concert2">{{cite news|title=live concert2008/2|publisher=Bocelli.de|year=2008|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_2.htm|access-date=24 December 2008|archive-date=11 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911232823/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_2.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Then on 13 May he sang at the ''"Teatro delle Muse"'' in [[Ancona]], Italy, for a charity concert for "Francesca Rava – N.P.H. Italia Onlus", a foundation that helps poor and disabled children around the world.<ref name="BOC2008 concert2" />
 
On 23 May 2008, he sang ''The Prayer'' with [[Katharine McPhee]] in a Las Vegas tribute concert for Canadian producer and songwriter [[David Foster]]. Bocelli later praised Filipina teen-aged singer [[Charice]], whom he first heard perform at that concert.<ref>{{cite web|author=di Paolo Giordano|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=264800|title=Bocelli: "Verdi, il mio canto patriottico nell'Italia della riconciliazione"|publisher=Ilgiornale.it|date=28 May 2008|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-date=1 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801190034/http://www.ilgiornale.it/a.pic1?ID=264800|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.charicemania.com/charicemaniacom/2008/06/in-realt-il-mon.html Charicemania – Charice Pempengco Blog : Andrea Bocelli in a Possible Duet With Charice?<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918015918/http://www.charicemania.com/charicemaniacom/2008/06/in-realt-il-mon.html |date=18 September 2008 }}</ref>
 
On 2 June 2008, he performed at the [[Piazza del Duomo, Milan]] in front of 80,000 people during a concert celebrating the anniversary of the Republic of Italy's formation.<ref name="BOC2008 concert2" />
 
From 17 to 28 June, Bocelli played the role of Don José on stage, opposite Hungarian [[mezzo-soprano]] [[Ildikó Komlósi]] as [[Carmen]], in [[Georges Bizet]]'s opera at the [[Teatro dell'Opera di Roma]], in Rome, for four nights.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.moltoitaly.com/2008/05/andrea-bocelli-in-carmen-at-teatro.html|title=Andrea Bocelli in Carmen at the Teatro dell'Opera|publisher=Molto Italy|access-date=28 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828065809/http://www.moltoitaly.com/2008/05/andrea-bocelli-in-carmen-at-teatro.html|archive-date=28 August 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>[https://archive.today/20120709231831/http://en.operaroma.it/stagione/cartellone_2008/carmen The 2008 production of ''Carmen'' at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma], Official [[Teatro dell'Opera di Roma]] website.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/opera2008.htm|title=Live – Opera|publisher=bocelli.de|access-date=28 July 2013|archive-date=27 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827215516/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/opera2008.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Bocelli released the complete opera recording of ''Carmen'' in Italy in the same year, which he recorded in 2005. [[Myung-whun Chung]] conducted the [[Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France]] and the Chœur de Radio France for the recording, and Welsh [[Bass-baritone]] [[Bryn Terfel]], was part of the Ensemble.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_cd_review.php?id=8390|title=Carmen – Marina Domashenko, Andrea Bocelli & Bryn Terfel|publisher=Classicalsource.com|date=24 October 2005|access-date=28 July 2013|archive-date=27 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827183035/http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_cd_review.php?id=8390|url-status=live}}</ref> The recording was not released internationally, until March 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/Bizet-Carmen/4443347|title=Bizet: ''Carmen'' – Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel|publisher=Mightyape.co.nz|date=8 March 2010|access-date=28 July 2013|archive-date=3 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140803221721/http://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/Bizet-Carmen/4443347|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Carmen: Duets & Arias]]'', a single-disc collection of some of the arias and duets of the recording, was also released in 2010.<ref name="Carmen: Duets & Arias on iclassics">{{Cite web|url=http://www.iclassics.com/artist/releases/release.aspx?pid=64137&aid=108|title=''Carmen: Duets & Arias'' on iclassics}}</ref>
 
On 20 July, Bocelli held his third concert at the Teatro del Silenzio in [[Lajatico]], his hometown. The concert was a tribute to the [[cinema of Italy]]. Its performers included Italian composer and musician [[Nicola Piovani]], Italian ballet dancer [[Roberto Bolle]], Israeli singer [[Achinoam Nini|Noa]], and Charice.<ref name="BOC2008 concert3">{{cite news|title=live concert2008/3|publisher=Bocelli.de|year=2008|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_3.htm|access-date=24 December 2008|archive-date=18 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718203217/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_3.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Then on 31 July, he performed at a concert in [[Vingis Park]] in [[Vilnius]], [[Lithuania]], in front of more than 18,000 people.<ref name="BOC2008 concert4">{{cite news|title=live concert2008/4|publisher=Bocelli.de|year=2008|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_4.htm|access-date=24 December 2008|archive-date=11 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911232743/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_4.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Australian singer [[Tina Arena]] performed two duets with Bocelli – "Canto Della Terra" and "[[The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)|The Prayer]]" – at the closing stages of the concert.<ref name="August 2008">
{{cite web|title=Impromptu onstage appearance|publisher=tinaarena.com|url=http://tinaarena.com/index.php?module=news&section=newsdetail&secid=86&lang=en|access-date=24 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203033918/http://tinaarena.com/index.php?module=news&section=newsdetail&secid=86&lang=en|archive-date=3 February 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 7 August 2008, he held a benefit concert at [[Medjugorje]], [[Bosnia Herzegovina]], and was accompanied by the [[Czech National Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name="BOC2008 concert4" /> Then, during the rest of August, he was on tour in Australia and New Zealand for the third time.<ref name="BOC2008 concert4" /> [[Tina Arena]] performed with him in all 5 concerts during the tour.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tina Joins Andrea Bocelli for His Australian Tour|url=http://tinaarena.com/index.php?module=news&section=newsdetail&secid=85&lang=en|access-date=15 December 2013|newspaper=Tina Arena|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090203033914/http://tinaarena.com/index.php?module=news&section=newsdetail&secid=85&lang=en|archive-date=3 February 2009}}</ref>
 
On 26 September 2008, during the 2008 [[Veneto]] Festival, he held a concert in the [[Church of the Eremitani]] in [[Padova]], Italy. He was accompanied by the [[I Solisti Veneti]] orchestra, celebrating its 50th birthday and conducted by [[Claudio Scimone]], and by the [[Wiener Singakademie]] choir. The concert was a celebration of [[Giacomo Puccini]]'s 150th birthday.<ref name="BOC2008 concert5">{{cite news|title=live concert2008/5|publisher=Bocelli.de|year=2008|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_5.htm|access-date=24 December 2008|archive-date=11 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911233818/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_5.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 10 and 11 October he performed at [[Petra]], singing "[[Vivere (Dare to Live)|Dare to Live]]" with [[Laura Pausini]], as well as performing "E Lucevan le Stelle" from ''Tosca''. On 19 October, he sang "[['O surdato 'nnammurato]]" and a duet of "Non Ti Scordar Di Me" with [[Cecilia Bartoli]], both from the ''[[Incanto]]'' album, during the [[Echo (music award)|ECHO Awards]] in Germany; and later presented the soprano with an ECHO award. On 24 October, he performed at ''[[Piazza del Plebiscito]]'' in Naples, as a tribute to the city, where he celebrated the Italian release of ''Incanto''. Performing with him were flautist Andrea Griminelli, Italian pop singer [[Massimo Ranieri]] and soprano [[Cecilia Bartoli]], with [[Steven Mercurio]] conducting the [[Czech National Symphony Orchestra]].<ref name="BOC2008 concert6">{{cite news|title=live concert2008/6|publisher=Bocelli.de|year=2008|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_6.htm|access-date=24 December 2008|archive-date=11 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911233006/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_6.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> On 31 October, he performed a solo version of "The Prayer", as well as "[[Because (1902 song)|Because]]", a song from ''Incanto'', live on [[The Oprah Winfrey Show]].<ref name="october 2008">
{{cite web|title=Live with Faith Hill & David Foster|publisher=oprah.com|url=http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20081031_tows_fridays/9|access-date=31 October 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206193215/http://www.oprah.com/slideshow/oprahshow/20081031_tows_fridays/9|archive-date=6 December 2008|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 21 and 22 November Bocelli was amongst a quartet of soloists (soprano [[Sabina Cvilak]], [[mezzo-soprano]] [[Kate Aldrich]] and [[bass (voice type)|bass]] [[Alexander Vinogradov (bass)|Alexander Vinogradov]]) to sing Rossini's ''[[Petite messe solennelle]]'', conducted by [[Plácido Domingo]], at the [[Washington National Opera]] in Washington, D.C.<ref name="Petite messe solennelle">
{{cite news|title=Andrea Bocelli and Plácido Domingo together for the first time in Petite Messe Solennelle |publisher=dc-opera.org |year=2008 |url=http://www.dc-opera.org/ourseason/petitemesse.asp |access-date=24 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125102140/http://www.dc-opera.org/ourseason/petitemesse.asp |archive-date=25 January 2009 }}</ref> Bocelli sang twice in the piece and later the two tenors sang "[[The Pearl Fishers' Duet]]" which would be the first [[aria]] they had ever sung together.<ref name="BOC2008 concert7">{{cite news|title=live concert2008/7|publisher=Bocelli.de|year=2008|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_7.htm|access-date=24 December 2008|archive-date=11 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911233435/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2008_7.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> On 25 and 26 November he starred alongside soprano [[Verónica Villarroel]] in an opera in concert of Mascagni's [[Cavalleria rusticana]] at the ''"Municipal Auditorium"'' in [[San Antonio]], Texas.<ref name="BOC2008 concert7" /> He later held a concert at ''"Atrio de la Catedral"'' in [[Campeche]], Mexico, on 28 November, where he sang songs from ''Incanto'' as well as some of his Spanish hits, including ''[[Bésame Mucho]]'', ''[[Somos Novios]]'', ''[[Amapola (song)|Amapola]]'' and ''[[Por ti Volare]]'' – the Spanish version of ''Con te Partiro''.<ref name="BOC2008 concert7" />
 
===2009: ''My Christmas'', first holiday album===
On 27 May 2009, Bocelli sang "Il Gladiatore", from the ''[[Gladiator (2000 soundtrack)|Gladiator]]'' soundtrack, followed by the [[UEFA Champions League Anthem]], which is based on [[Handel|G.F. Handel's]] "[[Zadok the Priest]]", during the opening ceremony of the [[2009 UEFA Champions League Final]], in the [[Stadio Olimpico]], in Rome.
 
On 3 November, ''[[My Christmas]]'', his first [[Christmas music|Holiday album]], produced by [[David Foster]], was released and went on to become the [[List of best-selling Christmas/holiday albums in the United States#2000s|best-selling Holiday album of the year]].
 
The ''[[My Christmas Special|Andrea Bocelli & David Foster Christmas Special]]'', the [[PBS]] special of the album, first aired on [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]] night in the United States, and continued to be broadcast in the United States and Canada throughout the month of December. In late November, the program was broadcast in [[Mexico]] and in the UK and Ireland; it later aired, 15 and 25 December, on [[Italia 1]], in Italy, 19 December, on [[TVE2]] and [[TROS]], in Spain and the Netherlands, and Christmas Eve, on [[VTM (TV channel)|vtm]] and [[RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg|RTL-TVI]], in Belgium and [[Luxembourg]].
 
[[File:Andrea Bocelli with piano @ Premio Faraglioni 2009.JPG|thumb|Bocelli performing at the Premio Faraglioni 2009]]
 
On 3 November, during the World Premiere of [[Disney]]'s ''[[A Christmas Carol (2009 film)|A Christmas Carol]]'', in [[Leicester Square]], London, following the switching on of the annual [[Oxford Street]] and [[Regent Street]] Christmas lights, Bocelli led the [[St Paul's Cathedral]] [[Choir]], and more than 14,000 people across the capital, as they broke the Official [[Guinness World Record]] for the biggest ever [[Christmas carol]] [[sing-along]], singing "[[Silent Night]]". He completed his performance in Leicester Square with, "God Bless Us Everyone", the closing song of the movie, which he provided the vocals for in English, Italian and Spanish.<ref name="Bocelli - A Christmas Carol (1)">
{{cite web|title=Bocelli leads Christmas carol sing-along|publisher=[[Classic FM (UK)|ClassicFm]].co.uk, 3 November 2010, article|url=http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/music-news-and-features/bocelli-leads-christmas-carol-sing-along/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20111011083648/http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/music-news-and-features/bocelli-leads-christmas-carol-sing-along/|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 October 2011|access-date=4 April 2010}}</ref><ref name="Bocelli - A Christmas Carol (2)">{{cite web|title=Record breaking night for London's Christmas Carol-themed lights switch-on|publisher=Indielondon.co.uk, 3 November 2010, article|url=http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/record-breaking-night-for-london-s-christmas-carol-themed-lights-switch-on|access-date=4 April 2010|archive-date=24 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324134326/http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/record-breaking-night-for-london-s-christmas-carol-themed-lights-switch-on|url-status=live}}</ref> He returned to the United Kingdom, 16 December, for an appearance on ''[[The One Show]]'', broadcast live by [[BBC One]], and on ''[[The Alan Titchmarsh Show]]'' which aired 18 December, on [[ITV1]].
 
On 21 November, a segment of ''Leute Heute'', a German [[Tabloid television|tabloid-program]] on [[ZDF]], was about ''My Christmas'' and Bocelli's meeting in Rome with [[Pope Benedict XVI]] and 250 other artists, an event which was broadcast live earlier that day in Italy, by [[Rai Uno]]. Bocelli was also joined by the [[Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano]], in his home in [[Forte dei Marmi]], where they sang "Caro Gesù Bambino", a song from ''My Christmas'' which was [[List of songs recorded by Zecchino d'Oro|originally recorded by the choir in 1960]]. [[Rai Uno]] also broadcast the performance later that day, during the [[Zecchino d'Oro|Zecchino d'Oro Festival]]. The following day, Bocelli was among Fabio Fazio's guests, on his popular Italian talk-show, [[Che tempo che fa]], broadcast on [[Rai Tre]]. During the program Bocelli talked about his album and performed "[[The Lord's Prayer]]", "[[White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]", and "[[Silent Night]]". It was also announced that Bocelli would return to the show on 20 December and give a live concert of ''My Christmas''. Bocelli also took part in the annual [[José Carreras#Humanitarian work|2009 ''José Carreras Gala'']], on 17 December, where he sang [[Adeste Fideles]], before singing "White Christmas" with [[José Carreras]] for the very first time; this was broadcast live, by [[Das Erste]], in Germany. He then returning to Italy, for a concert in the [[Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi#The Upper Basilica of St. Francis|Upper Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi]], on 19 December, which was broadcast directly after the ''[[Urbi et Orbi]]'' blessing of Pope Benedict XVI, 25 December, on [[Rai Uno]].
 
In North America, Bocelli gave 6 concerts. On 28 November, he performed in the [[BankAtlantic Center]], in [[Ft. Lauderdale, Florida]]. He later performed in the [[Air Canada Centre]], in [[Toronto|Toronto, Ontario]], Canada, in the [[Izod Center]], in [[East Rutherford, New Jersey]], in the [[Fresno Convention Center#Saroyan Theatre|William Saroyan Theatre]], in [[Fresno, California]] (changed from the much larger [[Save Mart Center]] due to scheduling conflicts), in the [[MGM Grand Garden Arena|MGM Grand]], in [[Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas]], and finally in the [[Honda Center]], in [[Anaheim, California]], on 3, 5, 8, 12 December and 13. His last three arena concerts alone grossed a total of over 5,6&nbsp;million dollars, placing him third on [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard Magazine]]'s week's Hot Tours ranking, behind the [[Trans-Siberian Orchestra]] and [[Il Divo]], who both held over 5 times more concerts worldwide, compared to Bocelli's three in the United States, explaining their better showings.<ref>{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Bob|title=Hot Tours: Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Il Divo, Andrea Bocelli|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/photos/live/960815/hot-tours-trans-siberian-orchestra-il-divo-andrea-bocelli|access-date=9 December 2013|newspaper=Billboard|date=5 January 2010|archive-date=28 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728075830/http://www.billboard.com/articles/photos/live/960815/hot-tours-trans-siberian-orchestra-il-divo-andrea-bocelli|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In the United States, Bocelli made a number of high-profile TV appearances. He first performed "White Christmas" at the 83rd annual [[Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade]], broadcast live on [[NBC]], 26 November. He performed the song again on 30 November during ''[[Today (U.S. TV program)|The Today Show]]'' also live. His appearance on ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show]]'' during her ''Holiday Music Extravaganza'', where he sang "[[What Child Is This (Andrea Bocelli and Mary J. Blige cover)|What Child Is This]]", with [[Mary J. Blige]], and later closed the show with [[Adeste Fideles]], was also aired the same day, and was later rebroadcast on 23 December. Bocelli also sang "Adeste Fideles" and was interviewed by [[Barbara Walters]] and [[Joy Behar]] on ''[[The View (U.S. TV series)|The View]]'', which aired 2 December, on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. On 8 December, he performed "[[Jingle Bells]]" with [[The Muppets]] on ''[[The Jay Leno Show]]''. He also performed a number of songs from the album, including "[[The Christmas Song]]" with [[Natalie Cole]], during a dinner at [[David Foster]]'s [[mansion]] in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]], which was featured on ''[[Dr. Phil (TV series)|The Dr. Phil Show]]'', on 10 December. Bocelli also performed "White Christmas" and "[[Silent Night]]", on the ''[[Larry King Live]]'' and ''[[Fox & Friends]]'' holiday-specials, broadcast 23 December, on [[CNN]], and 19, 24 December and 25, on [[Fox News Channel|Fox News]].
 
In [[Brasil]], following the success of the South American leg of the ''Incanto tour'', where over 100,000 people attended his free concert at the [[São Paulo]]'s "Parque Indipendencia", earlier in the year,<ref>{{cite news|title=Andrea Bocelli Performs to 100,000 in Brazil|url=http://www.classicfm.com/artists/andrea-bocelli/news/andrea-bocelli-performs-100000-brazil/|access-date=9 December 2013|newspaper=[[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]]|archive-date=7 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507042441/http://www.classicfm.com/artists/andrea-bocelli/news/andrea-bocelli-performs-100000-brazil/|url-status=live}}</ref> it was announced that Bocelli would hold another [[open-air concert|Open-Air]], entrance free, concert in [[Florianópolis]], on 28 December, where a crowd of about a million people was expected to attend. However, due to financial and political reasons, the concert was later canceled on short notice, along with all the other events scheduled for Christmas in the city.
 
===2010: Hollywood Walk of Fame and FIFA World Cup===
[[File:AndreaBocelliMar10.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Bocelli receiving a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], 2010]]
On 31 January 2010, during the [[52nd Grammy Awards]], Bocelli, [[Mary J. Blige]] and David Foster joined forces again, singing "[[Bridge over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge over Troubled Water]]" as a tribute to the victims of that year's [[2010 Haiti earthquake|earthquake in Haiti]].<ref name="Bocelli in 2010">{{cite web|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/live2010_1.htm|title=Andrea Bocelli in 2010|publisher=Bocelli.de|access-date=1 May 2010|archive-date=3 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111003225708/http://www.bocelli.de/en/live2010_1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/30/lkl.01.html|title=CNN Larry King Live Transcript – Episode 30 January 2010|publisher=CNN|date=30 January 2010|access-date=28 July 2013|archive-date=29 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829150037/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1001/30/lkl.01.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 2 March, he was honoured with a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] for his contribution to [[Theatre|Live Theater]], at 7000 [[Hollywood Boulevard]], in front of the [[Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel|Roosevelt Hotel]].<ref name="Bocelli gets Star (1)">{{cite news|title=Hollywood Walk of Fame Honors Andrea Bocelli|url=http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-415682|access-date=9 December 2013|newspaper=[[CNN iReport]]|date=3 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812142828/http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-415682|archive-date=12 August 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The previous day, Bocelli, along with David Foster, were honored by ''L.A. Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest'' during a ceremony at the [[Grauman's Chinese Theatre]], in Hollywood, where ''The Story Behind The Voice'', a documentary about Bocelli's life and career was shown.<ref>{{cite news|last=Olivier|first=Ellen|title=L.A. Italia Film, Fashion and Art Fest honors tenor Andrea Bocelli and producer David Foster|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-07-la-ig-scene-20100307-story.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=7 March 2010|archive-date=18 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218114053/http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/07/image/la-ig-scene-20100307|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:DavidFosterMar10.jpg|right|upright|thumb|[[David Foster]] speaks at the ceremony honoring Bocelli with his star.]]
On 12 March, Bocelli made an appearance on [[Skavlan]], in [[Oslo]], Norway, to promote his upcoming [[Scandinavia|Scandinavian tour]], giving a rare interview to the show's host [[Fredrik Skavlan]], and later performing "Voglio Vivere Cosi", from his 2008 album ''Incanto'', with [[Norwegians|Norwegian]] [[Boys' choir]], [[Sølvguttene]].<ref name="Bocelli in 2010"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Hansen|first=Magne|title=Andrea Bocelli og kokken som sa nei til Obama på Skavlan|url=http://www.nrk.no/kultur/andrea-bocelli-til-skavlan-1.7031646|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=[[NRK]]|date=10 March 2010|language=no|archive-date=12 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212214353/http://www.nrk.no/kultur/andrea-bocelli-til-skavlan-1.7031646|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In April, he returned to Scandinavia for a concert in [[Telenor Arena]] in Bærum, Norway, on 8 April, a concert in [[Forum Copenhagen]] in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 9 April, and finally a concert in the [[Ericsson Globe]], in Stockholm, Sweden, on 11 April. He was joined by [[Heather Headley]] and 120 musicians from the Stockholm Concert Orchestra, in all three concerts, and by Swedish [[mezzo-soprano]] [[Malena Ernman]] in his Swedish concert.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bocelli.de/live/konzert2010_2.htm|title=Andrea Bocelli April 2010 events|publisher=Bocelli.de|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-date=3 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303222418/http://www.bocelli.de/live/konzert2010_2.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Bocelli – with a little help from Ernman|url=http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/sweden/2121|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=[[Nordstjernan (newspaper)|Nordstjernan]]|archive-date=5 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105090715/http://www.nordstjernan.com/news/sweden/2121|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.kulturspegeln.se/andrea-bocelli-i-globenstockholm-concert-orchestra Andrea Bocelli i Globen Stockholm Concert Orchestra], Swedish article. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120804140143/http://www.kulturspegeln.se/andrea-bocelli-i-globenstockholm-concert-orchestra |date=4 August 2012 }}</ref>
 
On 30 April, Bocelli sang "Nessun dorma" during [[2010 Shanghai Expo opening ceremony|the opening ceremony]] of the [[Expo 2010]], in Shanghai, China.<ref>{{cite news|title=Andrea Bocelli on stage with Chinese girl for Shanghai Expo|url=http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6969737.html|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=People's Daily Online|date=30 April 2010|archive-date=31 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831124214/http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6969737.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7112559.ece Size matters at Shanghai Expo 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100430101355/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article7112559.ece |date=30 April 2010 }}, [[The Times]], 30 April 2010, article.</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Bodeen |first=Christopher |title=Sarkozy, other leaders in Shanghai for World Expo |url=http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2011741071_apaschinaexpo.html |access-date=10 December 2013 |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=30 April 2010 |agency=AP |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216090812/http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2011741071_apaschinaexpo.html |archive-date=16 December 2013 }}</ref> The following day, on 1 May, he held a concert, titled ''Charming China'', at [[Shanghai Stadium]].<ref>[http://cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/events/64616 Glamour of China] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305075454/http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/events/64616 |date=5 March 2016 }}, [[City Weekend]].</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Daiqi|first=Xing|title=Expo showcases music, art and culture|url=http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90872/6968222.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=[[People's Daily]]|date=30 April 2010|archive-date=31 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831124314/http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90872/6968222.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The concert was later broadcast by [[Shanghai Television|Shanghai TV]], and by [[CCTV Channels]] throughout [[mainland China]].
 
The two appearances coincided with Bocelli's Asian tour, consisting of a concert in [[Nippon Budokan|Budokan]], Tokyo, Japan, on 28 April,<ref>{{cite news|last=Grunebaum|first=Dan|title=Andrea Bocelli|url=http://metropolis.co.jp/arts/agenda/andrea-bocelli/|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=[[Metropolis (free magazine)|Metropolis]]|date=15 April 2010|archive-date=4 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204211721/http://metropolis.co.jp/arts/agenda/andrea-bocelli/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://eplus.jp/sys/web/s/bocelli/index.html|title=Andrea Bocelli: Live in Japan 2010|publisher=Eplus.jp|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120229042746/http://eplus.jp/sys/web/s/bocelli/index.html|archive-date=29 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> a concert in [[Jamsil Students' Gymnasium|Jamsil Gymnasium]], [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]], on 2 May,<ref>{{cite news|last=Hyo-won|first=Lee|title=Andrea Bocelli to Become One With Audience|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2010/04/135_64532.html|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Korea Times]]|date=20 April 2010|archive-date=2 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230757/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2010/04/135_64532.html|url-status=live}}</ref> a concert in [[Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre]], in Hong Kong, on 4 May,<ref name="HK 2010 (1)">{{cite news|last=Chen|first=Yali|title=Bocellimania to sweep music fans in a week|url=http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1231188&lang=eng_news|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=[[Taiwan News]]|date=20 April 2010|archive-date=19 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019030925/http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1231188&lang=eng_news|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="HK 2010 (2)">{{cite news|last=Chen |first=Yali |title=Bocelli to hold concerts in Hong Kong, Taipei |url=http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1691&Itemid=235 |access-date=12 December 2013 |newspaper=Taiwan Culture Portal |date=16 March 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203010601/http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1691&Itemid=235 |archive-date= 3 December 2013 }}</ref> a concert in [[Taipei Arena]], [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]], on 6 May,<ref name="HK 2010 (1)"/><ref name="HK 2010 (2)"/> and finally a free concert, organized by the [[YTL Corporation]], at the [[Singapore Botanic Gardens]], in Singapore, on 8 May, attended by over 12,000 people, picked via [[Ballot|public ballot]].<ref>[http://www.ytlconcert2010.com.sg/ YTL Concert of Celebration 2010] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401133012/http://www.ytlconcert2010.com.sg/ |date=1 April 2010 }}, Official YTL Concerts 2010 site.</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=12,000 enjoy Andrea Bocelli treat|url=http://www.ytlcommunity.com/commnews/shownews.asp?newsid=53168|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=YTL Community|date=9 May 2010|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203051531/http://www.ytlcommunity.com/commnews/shownews.asp?newsid=53168|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.kl-lifestyle.com.my/2010/05/enchated-night-with-andrea-bocelli Enchated Night with Andrea Bocelli], ''KL-lifestyle.com'', 11 May 2010, article. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724055742/http://www.kl-lifestyle.com.my/2010/05/enchated-night-with-andrea-bocelli |date=24 July 2012 }}</ref> The concert was later broadcast, in its entirety, by [[Channel NewsAsia]], on 28 and 29 May, and by [[Okto]], on 30 May, in Singapore. An [[Orchidaceae|orchid]] in the [[Singapore Botanic Gardens|Botanic Gardens']] [[National Orchid Garden]] was also named after Bocelli in response to the concert.<ref>{{cite web|author=ria tan|url=http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com/2010/05/nparks-to-introduce-more-orchid-species.html|title=Singapore Botanic Gardens: Orchid named after Andrea Bocelli|publisher=Wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com|date=15 May 2010|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-date=1 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301054754/http://wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com/2010/05/nparks-to-introduce-more-orchid-species.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Australian pop singer [[Delta Goodrem]] performed again with Bocelli in all five concerts, after supporting him in his United States [[My Christmas|My Christmas 2009 winter tour]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ww38.accessallareas.net.au/music_news/EkVAEplpuZihJNFJqK.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902022733/http://www.accessallareas.net.au/music_news/EkVAEplpuZihJNFJqK.php|title=accessallareas.net.au|archivedate=2 September 2011|website=ww38.accessallareas.net.au}}</ref>
 
On 18 May, during the [[2010 World Music Awards]], Bocelli performed "Un Amore Cosi Grande" from his 2008 album, ''Incanto'', and received his seventh [[World Music Awards|World Music Award]], for "Best Classical Artist".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldmusicawards.com|title=World Music Awards Official Site|publisher=Worldmusicawards.com|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-date=29 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090629205648/http://www.worldmusicawards.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 5 July, Bocelli gave a concert at the opening of the [[Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center]], in [[Astana]], on the occasion of [[Kazakhstan]]'s [[List of leaders of Kazakhstan|president]] [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]]'s 70th birthday.<ref>{{cite news|title=Andrea Bocelli books gig in Kazakhstan|url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2010/06/15/Andrea-Bocelli-books-gig-in-Kazakhstan/UPI-60551276624467|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=[[United Press International]]|date=15 June 2010|archive-date=6 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106142545/http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2010/06/15/Andrea-Bocelli-books-gig-in-Kazakhstan/UPI-60551276624467|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Orange|first=Richard|title=Giant indoor park opened for Kazakh president's birthday|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/7873035/Giant-indoor-park-opened-for-Kazakh-presidents-birthday.html|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=5 July 2010|archive-date=27 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130827024453/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/7873035/Giant-indoor-park-opened-for-Kazakh-presidents-birthday.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 9 July, Bocelli headlined the "Celebrate Africa: The Grand Finale" Concert at the [[Coca-Cola Dome]], in [[Johannesburg]], South Africa, to mark the end of the [[2010 FIFA World Cup|World Cup]], two days before the [[2010 FIFA World Cup Final|final]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Bocelli, Bryan Adams To Headline 'Grand Finale' Concert at World Cup|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/958430/bocelli-bryan-adams-to-headline-grand-finale-concert-at-world-cup|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=Billboard|date=29 April 2010|agency=AP|archive-date=28 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728083624/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/958430/bocelli-bryan-adams-to-headline-grand-finale-concert-at-world-cup|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/Bryan+Adams+Bocelli+sing+World+finale/2966918/story.html |title=Bryan Adams, Bocelli to sing at World Cup finale |newspaper=[[The Vancouver Sun]] |date=29 April 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502160540/http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Bryan%2BAdams%2BBocelli%2Bsing%2BWorld%2Bfinale/2966918/story.html |archive-date= 2 May 2010 }}</ref>
 
On 13 July, [[Statehood Day (Montenegro)|Montenegrin Statehood Day]], Bocelli gave a concert at the seaside resort of [[Sveti Stefan]], in western [[Montenegro]], to mark the [[Golden Jubilee]] of the [[Aman Resorts#Locations|Sveti Stefan Hotel]].<ref name="Bocelli in Montenegro">[https://web.archive.org/web/20100723144407/http://www.traveldailynews.com/pages/show_page/38032-The-anniversary-of-the-Sveti-Stefan-Hotel-marked-by-a-concert-by-Andrea-Bocelli The anniversary of the Sveti Stefan Hotel marked by a concert by Andrea Bocelli], 20 July 2010, article.</ref>
 
On 14 July, Bocelli gave a concert at the [[European Parliament]]'s [[Espace Léopold]], in [[Brussels]], Belgium, during "Rome in the heart of the future", an event hosted by the [[Vice President of the European Parliament]] for the [[seventh European Parliament|seventh parliament]], [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]], [[Roberta Angelilli]].<ref name="Bocelli: Euro Parliament 2010">[http://eppgroup.eu/press/showPR.asp?PRControlDocTypeID=1&PRControlID=9563&PRContentID=16367&PRContentLg=en Rome in the heart of the future: Invitation by vice-president of the European Parliament, Roberta Angelilli MEP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720160223/http://eppgroup.eu/press/showPR.asp?PRControlDocTypeID=1&PRControlID=9563&PRContentID=16367&PRContentLg=en |date=20 July 2011 }}, [[European People's Party (European Parliament group)|EPP Group]], 13 July 2010, article.</ref><ref>[http://gary-brusselsblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/lunchtime-with-andrea-bocelli.html Lunchtime with Andrea Bocelli] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708040144/http://gary-brusselsblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/lunchtime-with-andrea-bocelli.html |date=8 July 2011 }}, 14 July 2010, article.</ref> A screening of the film ''Homage to Rome'', directed by [[Franco Zeffirelli]], who was present during the event, and starring Bocelli, in his [[Film|cinematographic]] debut, was shown prior to the special concert.<ref name="Bocelli: Euro Parliament 2010"/><ref>[http://www.iltempo.it/cronaca_locale/roma/2010/07/12/1179014-bocelli_cantera_bruxelles.shtml?refresh_ce Bocelli canterà a Bruxelles] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928121826/http://www.iltempo.it/cronaca_locale/roma/2010/07/12/1179014-bocelli_cantera_bruxelles.shtml?refresh_ce |date=28 September 2012 }}, [[Il Tempo]], 12 July 2010, article.</ref>
 
On 25 July, Bocelli held the fifth and final edition of the [[Teatro del Silenzio]], in his hometown of [[Lajatico]], Tuscany. Bocelli's guests included Spanish [[Catalonia|Catalan]] tenor [[José Carreras]], and Italian rock singer [[Zucchero]]. Sculptures by Swiss artist [[Kurt Laurenz Metzler]], who attended the concert, were exhibited during this year's edition. Bocelli was also awarded the ''Pisano Doc'', during the dress rehearsal for the concert, on 24 July, and received the 2010 ''Premio Lunezia nel mondo'', during a private ceremony held on 21 July, for "the musical-literary quality of his songs."
 
In September 2010, Bocelli held a concert at the [[Odeon of Herodes Atticus]], in [[Athens]], Greece. All proceeds were donated to help cure cancer. Bocelli also gave concerts in [[Cairo]], Egypt, in front of the pyramids and the [[Great Sphinx of Giza]], as well as a fundraising concert inside the [[Duomo di Milano]] to benefit victims of the [[2010 Haiti earthquake]].
 
As part of the 2010 leg of the [[My Christmas Tour]], Bocelli gave two concerts in [[The O2 Arena]], in London, and the [[Manchester Arena]], in [[Manchester]], and a concert at [[3Arena|The O2]], in [[Dublin]], in late November 2010.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sweeting|first=Adam|title=Andrea Bocelli, O2 Arena, review|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalconcertreviews/8134168/Andrea-Bocelli-O2-Arena-review.html|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=15 November 2010|archive-date=14 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114001209/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalconcertreviews/8134168/Andrea-Bocelli-O2-Arena-review.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>[http://www.citylife.co.uk/news_and_reviews/reviews/10018833_review__andrea_bocelli___men_arena Andrea Bocelli concert review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323005306/http://www.citylife.co.uk/news_and_reviews/reviews/10018833_review__andrea_bocelli___men_arena |date=23 March 2012 }}, [[City Life (magazine)|citylife]].co.uk, 26 November 2010, article.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bandsintown.com/event/3289068-andrea-bocelli-dublin-ireland-live-at-the-o2-dublin-on-november-22-2010|title=Andrea Bocelli live in Dublin, Ireland|publisher=Bandsintown.com|date=12 November 2010|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309142827/http://www.bandsintown.com/event/3289068-andrea-bocelli-dublin-ireland-live-at-the-o2-dublin-on-november-22-2010|archive-date=9 March 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> His sold-out concert at the O2 in London, was the most attended show in the venue's history, with 16,500 people attending the event.<ref>[http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/latest-music-news/andrea-bocelli-makes-history-o2 Andrea Bocelli makes history at O2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228064657/http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/latest-music-news/andrea-bocelli-makes-history-o2/ |date=28 December 2010 }}, [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]], 16 November 2010, article.</ref> In early December, Bocelli gave 6 concerts in the United States. He performed in [[Madison Square Garden]], in New York City, [[Prudential Center]], in [[Newark, New Jersey]], [[TD Garden]], in [[Boston]], Toyota Center, in Houston, [[Staples Center]], in Los Angeles, and the [[MGM Grand Las Vegas|MGM Grand]]'s [[MGM Grand Garden Arena|Garden Arena]], in the [[Las Vegas Strip]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Kel|url=http://www.clickitticket.com/blog/post/Andrea-Bocelli-Brings-His-Christmas-to-the-US.aspx|title=Andrea Bocelli Brings His Christmas to the US|publisher=Clickitticket.com|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-date=8 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008063419/http://www.clickitticket.com/blog/post/Andrea-Bocelli-Brings-His-Christmas-to-the-US.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Bocelli also took part in the [[Christmas in Washington]] special on 12 December.<ref name="Obama"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tnt.tv/christmasinwashington/display/?contentId=77664|title=Andrea Bocelli on TNT's Official Website|publisher=Tnt.tv|access-date=6 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302080921/http://www.tnt.tv/christmasinwashington/display/?contentId=77664|archive-date=2 March 2012}}</ref> On 19 December, Bocelli gave a concert, conducted by [[Claudio Scimone]], in the [[Italian Senate]].<ref>[http://www.bocelli.de/en/live/concert2010_11.htm Bocelli concert at Italian Senate] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110422041030/http://bocelli.de/en/live/concert2010_11.htm |date=22 April 2011 }}, Bocelli.de.</ref>
 
===2011: Metropolitan Opera recital, and Central Park concert===
In January, Bocelli gave three concerts in Germany. The concerts in [[Munich]], Berlin, and [[Hamburg]] were all part of the [[Notte Illuminata|Notte Illuminata Tour]], launched in [[Pisa]], at the Teatro Verdi, December 2010. In February, Bocelli performed a recital on the stage of the [[Metropolitan Opera]] house as part of the tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/press/detail.aspx?id=12376 |title=Andrea Bocelli to Make Met Recital Debut |publisher=Metoperafamily.org |access-date=6 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415070627/http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/press/detail.aspx?id=12376 |archive-date=15 April 2012 }}</ref>
 
In late March, early April, as part of the 2011 Latin leg of his Incanto tour, Bocelli gave concerts in [[Bogotá]], and [[Panama City]].
 
In May 2011, Bocelli held 5 concerts in East and Southeast Asia, and was joined by New Zealand soprano [[Hayley Westenra]] during the tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201104140022 |title=Hayley Westenra to perform at Bocelli concerts in Taipei |publisher=focustaiwan.tw |access-date=28 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119075224/http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201104140022 |archive-date=19 January 2012 }}</ref> He first gave a concert in [[Jakarta]], Indonesia.<ref>[http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/andrea-bocelli-gives-stirring-performance-for-gilded-crowd/441267 Andrea Bocelli Gives Stirring Performance for Gilded Crowd] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925114259/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/andrea-bocelli-gives-stirring-performance-for-gilded-crowd/441267 |date=25 September 2012 }}, [[Jakarta Globe]], 16 May 2011, article.</ref> Bocelli held two other concerts in [[Taipei]], and two concerts in [[Beijing]].<ref>{{cite web |title=2011 Asian Tour |url=http://fashion.ce.cn/news/music/201104/14/t20110414_22364090.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814011002/http://fashion.ce.cn/news/music/201104/14/t20110414_22364090.shtml |archive-date=14 August 2011 |access-date=6 June 2012 |website=[[Economic Daily]] |publisher=Fashion.ce.cn}}</ref>
 
In June and July, Bocelli gave two [[open-air concert]]s at historic sites, the first at [[Masada]], in [[Israel]],<ref>[http://www.opera-masada.com/en/Bocelli-Masada Andrea Bocelli at Masada] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425161536/http://www.opera-masada.com/en/Bocelli-Masada |date=25 April 2012 }} Official ''Opera Masada'' website</ref> with all proceeds dedicated to support the residents of the Israeli regions of [[Galilee]] and [[Negev]],<ref>[http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4008376,00.html Andrea Bocelli to sing at Masada – Famed Italian tenor to take part in one time performance in June. All proceeds dedicated to support of Galilee, Negev residents] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629191415/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4008376,00.html |date=29 June 2011 }} [[Ynetnews]]</ref> and the second at [[Syracuse, Sicily|Syracuse]]'s [[Theatre of ancient Greece|ancient Greek theatre]], in [[Sicily]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/greek-theatre-syracuse/andrea-bocelli-greek-theatre-syracuse|title=Andrea Bocelli at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse|publisher=Italymag.co.uk|date=27 June 2011|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120805033820/http://italymag.co.uk/italy/greek-theatre-syracuse/andrea-bocelli-greek-theatre-syracuse|archive-date=5 August 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> with all proceeds donated to the ''Fiamme di Solidarietà'' (Flames of Solidarity) organization, to raise awareness of issues concerning the poorest and most marginalized in Italy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fiammedisolidarieta.it|title=Fiamme di Solidarieta – Official Benefit concert website|publisher=Fiammedisolidarieta.it|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425162236/http://www.fiammedisolidarieta.it//|archive-date=25 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
Bocelli gave a free concert on 15 September, on the [[Great Lawn and Turtle Pond|Great Lawn]] of [[Central Park]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|author=Scozzese Design |url=http://bocellicentralpark.com/news/detail/andrea_bocelli_gifts_new_york_city_with_a_once_in_a_lifetime_musical |title=Andrea Bocelli Gifts New York City with a Once in a Lifetime Musical |publisher=Bocellicentralpark.com |access-date=6 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402132548/http://bocellicentralpark.com/news/detail/andrea_bocelli_gifts_new_york_city_with_a_once_in_a_lifetime_musical |archive-date=2 April 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was accompanied by the [[New York Philharmonic]], conducted by its music director [[Alan Gilbert (conductor)|Alan Gilbert]], and the [[Westminster Choir College|Westminster Symphonic Choir]].<ref name="Central Park Guests">{{cite web|author=Scozzese Design |url=http://bocellicentralpark.com/news/detail/celine_dion_tony_bennett |title=Céline Dion, Tony Bennett Among Those To Celebrate With Andrea Bocelli on Central Park's Great Lawn |publisher=Bocellicentralpark.com |access-date=6 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402132620/http://bocellicentralpark.com/news/detail/celine_dion_tony_bennett |archive-date=2 April 2012 |url-status=usurped}}</ref> The concert was broadcast throughout the United States and Canada, by [[PBS]], and in Italy, by [[Rai 1]]. ''[[Concerto: One Night in Central Park]]'', the [[live album]] and the [[DVD-Video|DVD]] were released 15 November.
 
On 25 September, Bocelli led ''[[Songs of Praise]]''{{'s}} 50th anniversary celebration, alongside [[LeAnn Rimes]] and [[Katherine Jenkins]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Andrea Bocelli leads Songs of Praise 50th celebrations|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14358591|access-date=12 December 2013|newspaper=BBC News|date=31 July 2011|archive-date=28 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828032040/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14358591|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 15 October, Bocelli performed again for [[Pope Benedict XVI]] and a crowd of 8,000 people in [[Vatican City|Vatican]]'s [[Paul VI Audience Hall|Audience Hall]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.yahoo.com/photos/italian-tenor-andrea-bocelli-performed-pope-benedict-xvi-photo-200156948.html|title=Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli performs for Pope Benedict XVI}}</ref>
 
On 7 November, he gave an open-air free concert at [[Praça Rui Barbosa]] in [[Belo Horizonte]], [[Brazil]], to an audience of between 80,000 and 150,000 people.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120906212615/http://www.portalcwb.com/fiat-35-anos-andrea-bocelli-faz-show-emocionante-para-81-mil-pessoas.html FIAT 35 ANOS: Andrea Bocelli faz show emocionante para 81 mil pessoas] (Portuguese)</ref><ref>[http://musica.uol.com.br/ultnot/2011/11/06/pela-1-vez-em-bh-andrea-bocelli-mescla-erudito-ao-pop-e-emociona-em-duetos-com-sandy.jhtm Pela 1ª vez em BH, Andrea Bocelli mescla erudito ao pop e emociona em duetos com Sandy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106142546/http://musica.uol.com.br/ultnot/2011/11/06/pela-1-vez-em-bh-andrea-bocelli-mescla-erudito-ao-pop-e-emociona-em-duetos-com-sandy.jhtm |date=6 January 2016 }} (Portuguese)</ref><ref>[http://www.nhenhenhem.com/noticias/sandy-e-o-tenor-italiano-andrea-bocelli-cantam-para-mais-de-150-mil-pessoas-em-belo-horizonte-2498.html Sandy e o tenor italiano Andrea Bocelli cantam para mais de 150 mil pessoas em Belo Horizonte] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106142546/http://www.nhenhenhem.com/noticias/sandy-e-o-tenor-italiano-andrea-bocelli-cantam-para-mais-de-150-mil-pessoas-em-belo-horizonte-2498.html |date=6 January 2016 }} (Portuguese)</ref>
 
On 17 November, he performed at the Children in Need Rocks Manchester concert, gaining critical acclaim for receiving a standing ovation from a crowd of pop and indie music fans.
 
===2012–2014: ''Roméo et Juliette'' and ''Passione''===
[[File:Song Bocelli Lang East Meets West (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Andrea Bocelli and [[Song Zuying]] performing ''[[Con te partirò|Time to Say Goodbye]]'' at the ''East Meets West'' concert at London's Royal Albert Hall, June 2012]]
Bocelli played the role of [[Romeo]] in [[Charles Gounod]]'s opera ''[[Roméo et Juliette]]'', at the [[Teatro Carlo Felice]], for two performances in February 2012. He cancelled a third performance because of [[pharyngitis]] after having vocal strain throughout.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.pisatoday.it/cronaca/andrea-bocelli-annullato-romeo-juliette-genova-28-febbraio-2012.html | title=Salta "Romeo et Juliette" a Genova: Andrea Bocelli non-ce la fa | work=Pisa Today | date=28 February 2012 | access-date=29 July 2015 | archive-date=19 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019065145/http://www.pisatoday.it/cronaca/andrea-bocelli-annullato-romeo-juliette-genova-28-febbraio-2012.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
 
On 22 April, Bocelli gave an open-air concert at [[Yerevan]]'s [[Freedom Square, Yerevan|Liberty Square]], in [[Armenia]], dedicated to the proclamation of Yerevan as the 2012 [[World Book Capital]]; he was accompanied by the [[Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra]] conducted by Marcello Rota.<ref>{{cite web|author=Mher Margaryan |url=http://www.armradio.am/eng/news/?part=cult&id=22627 |title=Andrea Bocelli performs at Yerevan's Liberty Square |publisher=Armradio.am |date=23 April 2012 |access-date=6 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722081608/http://www.armradio.am/eng/news/?part=cult |archive-date=22 July 2012 }}</ref> On 19 November, he performed for [[Queen Elizabeth II]] and [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], during the 100th anniversary of the [[Royal Variety Performance]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20130209204918/http://news.yahoo.com/photos/britains-queen-elizabeth-greets-tenor-andrea-bocelli-royal-photo-230411001.html Britain's Queen Elizabeth greets tenor Andrea Bocelli after the Royal Variety Performance] [[Yahoo! News]]</ref>
 
A new studio album titled ''[[Passione (Andrea Bocelli album)|Passione]]'', featuring duets with [[Jennifer Lopez]] and [[Nelly Furtado]], was released on 29 January 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.andreabocelli.com/en/#!/career-2012_1001|title=Andrea Bocelli Official Website|publisher=Andreabocelli.com|access-date=18 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019065145/http://www.andreabocelli.com/en/#!/career-2012_1001|archive-date=19 October 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> On 7 February, Bocelli was an honorary guest at the 61st Annual [[National Prayer Breakfast]], held at the [[Washington Hilton]], where he performed "[[Ombra mai fu]]" and [[Franz Schubert]]'s "[[Ave Maria (Schubert)|Ave Maria]]" in the presence of President [[Barack Obama]], First Lady [[Michelle Obama]], Vice President [[Joe Biden]], as well as other political leaders.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.music-news.com/shownews.asp?H=Andrea-Bocelli-plays-for-Barak-Obama&nItemID=62744 |title=Andrea Bocelli plays for Barack Obama |access-date=12 February 2013 |archive-date=13 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413142747/http://www.music-news.com/shownews.asp?H=Andrea-Bocelli-plays-for-Barak-Obama&nItemID=62744 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-urges-humility-national-prayer-breakfast-article-1.1257904 President Obama speaks about faith and 'humility' at National Prayer Breakfast] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211104917/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-urges-humility-national-prayer-breakfast-article-1.1257904 |date=11 February 2013 }} [[New York Daily News]]</ref> On 20 February, he performed at the concert in Moscow [[Kremlin]] dedicated to 20th anniversary of [[Gazprom]].
 
On 1 June, Bocelli performed with [[Plácido Domingo]] at the [[Arena di Verona]], celebrating the 100th anniversary of the opera festival.<ref>[http://www.geticket.it/default/biglietteria/?id=9946 Arena Di Verona 2013 – 1 Giugno] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104051255/http://www.geticket.it/default/biglietteria/?id=9946 |date=4 November 2013 }} (Italian)</ref>
 
===2015–present: ''Cinema'', collaborations, and ''Sì''===
[[File:Bocelli & Son.jpg|thumb|left|Bocelli and his son Matteo performing in New York at the presentation of the album ''[[Sì (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sì]]'' in 2018]]
Bocelli released his fifteenth [[studio album]] ''[[Cinema (Andrea Bocelli album)|Cinema]]'' on 23 October 2015. It contains renditions of classic [[film soundtrack]]s and [[Film score|scores]], featuring duets with [[Ariana Grande]], [[Nicole Scherzinger]] and his wife Veronica Berti. The album received a nomination for [[Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album]] at the [[59th Annual Grammy Awards]]; the Spanish-language version was nominated for [[Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]] at the [[17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards]].
 
On 7 May 2016, Bocelli performed at the [[King Power Stadium]] before [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]]'s final match of the [[2015–16 Premier League]] against [[Everton F.C.|Everton]], as part of the club's title celebrations.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Bocelli almost brings Ranieri to tears at Leicester City title celebrations {{!}} Goal.com|url=https://www.goal.com/en-my/news/3890/england/2016/05/07/23253052/bocelli-almost-brings-ranieri-to-tears-at-leicester-city|website=www.goal.com|access-date=8 May 2020|archive-date=10 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310181223/https://www.goal.com/en-my/news/3890/england/2016/05/07/23253052/bocelli-almost-brings-ranieri-to-tears-at-leicester-city|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 15 December 2017, [[Ed Sheeran]] released a collaboration with Bocelli titled "[[Perfect Symphony]]". The song is a duet version of Sheeran's song "[[Perfect (Ed Sheeran song)|Perfect]]", with many of the original English lyrics sung in Italian.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ed Sheeran and Andrea Bocelli collaborate on new Perfect remix |url=http://www.music-news.com/news/UK/109833/Ed-Sheeran-reveals-Andrea-Bocelli-as-surprise-collaborator-on-new-Perfect-remix |website=Music-News.com |access-date=21 September 2018 |archive-date=21 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921230425/http://www.music-news.com/news/UK/109833/Ed-Sheeran-reveals-Andrea-Bocelli-as-surprise-collaborator-on-new-Perfect-remix |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
In June 2018, Bocelli released the single "If Only", his first after fourteen years.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mauro |first1=J-P |title=Andrea Bocelli's first original single in 14 years: "If Only" |url=https://aleteia.org/2018/06/18/andrea-bocellis-first-original-single-in-14-years-if-only/ |website=Aleteia – Catholic Spirituality, Lifestyle, World News, and Culture |access-date=21 September 2018 |date=18 June 2018 |archive-date=22 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922024432/https://aleteia.org/2018/06/18/andrea-bocellis-first-original-single-in-14-years-if-only/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On 20 September 2018, Bocelli released the single "Fall On Me" which features vocals from his son Matteo. The two performed the song on 22 October episode of ''[[Dancing with the Stars (U.S. TV series)|Dancing With the Stars]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Boedeker |first1=Hal |title='Dancing With the Stars': Disney Night enlists Andrea Bocelli |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/tv-guy/os-et-s2-dancing-with-the-stars-two-disney-nights-20181018-story.html |website=OrlandoSentinel.com |access-date=25 October 2018 |archive-date=26 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026033529/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/tv/tv-guy/os-et-s2-dancing-with-the-stars-two-disney-nights-20181018-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> An English version of the song was released in October and was featured in the [[Walt Disney Pictures]] film ''[[The Nutcracker and the Four Realms]]'' as the end credit song. Both songs appear on Bocelli's album ''[[Sì (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sì]]'', released on 26 October 2018.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Kaufman |first1=Gil |title=Andrea Bocelli 'Si' Album to Feature Duets With Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran & More |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8476077/andrea-bocelli-si-album-duets-dua-lipa-ed-sheeran-josh-groban |magazine=Billboard |access-date=21 September 2018 |archive-date=20 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180920161350/https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/8476077/andrea-bocelli-si-album-duets-dua-lipa-ed-sheeran-josh-groban |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
[[File:Concierto Andrea Bocelli (48720880911).jpg|thumb|Andrea Bocelli concert in Gibraltar, September 2019]]
 
On 12 October 2018, at the request of his close friend [[Sarah, Duchess of York]], Bocelli performed two songs at the [[wedding of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank|royal wedding]] of her daughter [[Princess Eugenie]], the [[Johann Sebastian Bach|Bach]]/[[Charles Gounod|Gounod]] ''[[Hail Mary|Ave Maria]]'', and ''[[Panis angelicus]]'' by [[César Franck]].<ref name="CNN-music">{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/06/uk/uk-princess-eugenie-wedding-details/index.html|title=Opera, trumpets and red velvet cake for royal wedding of Britain's Princess Eugenie|publisher=CNN|first=Melissa|last=Gray|date=7 October 2018|access-date=7 October 2018|archive-date=7 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181007034708/https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/06/uk/uk-princess-eugenie-wedding-details/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Order-Service">{{cite web|url=https://www.royal.uk/sites/default/files/media/order_of_service_0.pdf|title=The Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York with Mr. Jack Brooksbank|publisher=The Royal Family|access-date=11 October 2018|archive-date=12 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190612103301/https://www.royal.uk/sites/default/files/media/order_of_service_0.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 1 February 2019, Bocelli performed a sold-out concert in [[Winter at Tantora Festival|'Winter at Tantora' festival]] running at [[Al-'Ula]] for the first time in [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.arabnews.com/node/1445566/saudi-arabia|title=Opera star Andrea Bocelli regales music lovers at Saudi Arabia's Tantora Winter Festival|date=1 February 2019|website=Arab News|language=en|access-date=5 February 2019|archive-date=10 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210214636/https://www.arabnews.com/node/1445566/saudi-arabia|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 3 July 2019, Bocelli performed at the opening ceremony of the [[2019 Summer Universiade]] in [[Naples]] with three songs including "Fall On Me" with his son Matteo.
 
On 12 April 2020, during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Italy#Nationwide measures|national COVID-19 lockdowns in Italy]], Bocelli performed an Easter Sunday concert from an empty [[Milan Cathedral]], accompanied by cathedral organist Emanuele Vianelli.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/andrea-bocelli-sings-from-empty-duomo-cathedral-in-italy-for-special-live-easter-concert/ar-BB12wAln|title=Andrea Bocelli Sings From Empty Duomo Cathedral in Italy for Special Live Easter Concert|date=12 April 2020|website=MSN|language=en|access-date=12 April 2020|archive-date=12 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412212033/https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/andrea-bocelli-sings-from-empty-duomo-cathedral-in-italy-for-special-live-easter-concert/ar-BB12wAln|url-status=live}}</ref> The performance, titled "Music For Hope - Live From Duomo di Milano", was streamed live over YouTube, where it continues to be available for replay.<ref>{{cite web |title=Andrea Bocelli: Music For Hope - Live From Duomo di Milano |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huTUOek4LgU | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211028/huTUOek4LgU| archive-date=28 October 2021|website=YouTube | date=12 April 2020 |publisher=Andrea Bocelli |access-date=12 April 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> About 5 million people tuned in for the livestream performance and, by 13 April 2020, over 32&nbsp;million views were logged on the archived video.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Willman |first1=Chris |title=How Andrea Bocelli's Easter Live-Stream Became an Unexpected Global Blockbuster |url=https://variety.com/2020/music/news/andrea-bocelli-easter-live-stream-global-phenomenon-1234579205/ |work=Variety |date=14 April 2020 |language=en |access-date=14 April 2020 |archive-date=14 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414020113/https://variety.com/2020/music/news/andrea-bocelli-easter-live-stream-global-phenomenon-1234579205/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
On 13 September 2020, Bocelli performed the [[Il Canto degli Italiani|Italian National Anthem]] at the [[2020 Tuscan Grand Prix]].
 
In November 2020, Bocelli released an album, [[Believe (Andrea Bocelli album)|Believe]]. It was in response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] and featured recent pandemic related songs.
 
He performed Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" during the Opening Ceremony of the [[2020 UEFA European Football Championship]] held in [[Rome]], Italy on 11 June 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Watch star tenor Andrea Bocelli perform emotional 'Nessun dorma' at UEFA Euro 2020 Opening Ceremony |url=http://www.classicfm.com/artists/andrea-bocelli/nessun-dorma-euro-2020-ceremony/ |website=Classic FM |access-date=12 June 2021 |archive-date=11 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611125112/https://www.classicfm.com/artists/andrea-bocelli/nessun-dorma-euro-2020-ceremony/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
On 5 June 2022, Bocelli performed Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" during the BBC's [[Platinum Party at the Palace]], one of the celebrations of the [[Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0bk5pd7/the-queens-platinum-jubilee-platinum-party-at-the-palace | title=The Queen's Platinum Jubilee - Platinum Party at the Palace | access-date=8 June 2022 | archive-date=8 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608044230/https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0bk5pd7/the-queens-platinum-jubilee-platinum-party-at-the-palace | url-status=live }}</ref>
 
On 21 October 2022, Bocelli released his first collaboration album with his son and daughter, Matteo and Virginia, titled ''A Family Christmas''.
 
On 7 May 2023, Bocelli performed "[[You'll Never Walk Alone]]" together with [[Bryn Terfel]] during the BBC's [[Coronation Concert]] to mark the [[coronation of Charles III]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.classicfm.com/artists/andrea-bocelli/bryn-terfel-youll-never-walk-alone-coronation-concert/|title=Andrea Bocelli and Sir Bryn Terfel perform emotional 'You'll Never Walk Alone' at Coronation Concert|work=Classic FM|first=Sophia Alexandra|last=Hall|date=7 May 2023|accessdate=23 May 2023|archive-date=23 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523050212/https://www.classicfm.com/artists/andrea-bocelli/bryn-terfel-youll-never-walk-alone-coronation-concert/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 26 February 2024, Andrea Bocelli with his son Matteo performed at the [[Quinta Vergara Amphitheater]] [[Viña del Mar]], [[Chile]] at the LXIII [[Viña del Mar International Song Festival]] receiving the Gaviota Silver and Gold.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latercera.com/culto/2024/02/26/andrea-bocelli-deslumbra-con-impactante-show-en-vina-2024-uno-de-los-mejores-en-la-historia-del-festival/|title=Andrea Bocelli dazzles with a shocking show at Viña 2024: one of the best in the history of the Festival|work=[[La Tercera]]|language=es|date=26 February 2024|accessdate=26 February 2024|archive-date=27 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227043833/https://www.latercera.com/culto/2024/02/26/andrea-bocelli-deslumbra-con-impactante-show-en-vina-2024-uno-de-los-mejores-en-la-historia-del-festival/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 10 March 2024, Andrea Bocelli with his son Matteo performed "[[Con te partirò|Time to Say Goodbye]]" during the annual "In Memoriam" tribute at the 96th Academy Awards.
 
==Voice==
Bocelli is a widely popular singer with a substantial fan base worldwide. However, he is also a polarizing figure in classical music, whose voice and performances
have routinely been the subject of negative reviews by critics. Italian [[spinto]] tenor [[Franco Corelli]] praised Bocelli's voice after hearing it for the first time during a [[master class]] in 1986, in [[Turin]], and he later gave Bocelli private lessons.<ref name="Bocelli fans">[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/3668298/Andrea-Bocelli-Some-voices-have-tears-inside.html Andrea Bocelli: 'Some voices have tears inside'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820113855/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/3668298/Andrea-Bocelli-Some-voices-have-tears-inside.html |date=20 August 2018 }}, [[The Daily Telegraph]], 4 October 2007, article.</ref><ref name="Bocelli Cieli di Toscana"/><ref name="2009 Bocelli Interview">[http://living.scotsman.com/features/Interview-Andrea-Bocelli-opera-singer.5762157.jp Interview: Andrea Bocelli, opera singer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927231827/http://living.scotsman.com/features/Interview-Andrea-Bocelli-opera-singer.5762157.jp |date=27 September 2011 }}, [[The Scotsman]], 27 October 2009, article.</ref>
 
[[Puerto Rican people|Puerto Rican]] soprano [[Ana María Martínez]], who regularly performs with Bocelli, said, "More than anything, Andrea has something that is unique in that he brings this light that is always around him. And this purity of heart and beauty of sound just touches the listener. It can't be described."<ref name="Bocelli Cieli di Toscana">[http://www.bluecoupe.com/classical/andreatoscana.html Andrea Bocelli's ''Cieli di Toscana'' review] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106142546/http://www.bluecoupe.com/classical/andreatoscana.html |date=6 January 2016 }}, ''bluecoupe.com'', 2001 article.</ref>
 
[[Celine Dion]] said while introducing him during her Christmas Special for ''[[These Are Special Times]]'', in 1998, that "if God would have a singing voice, he must sound a lot like Andrea Bocelli,"<ref name="Decca"/><ref name="2009 Bocelli Interview"/> and [[David Foster]], a producer of the album, often describes Bocelli's voice as the most beautiful in the world. Similarly, [[jazz]] singer [[Al Jarreau]], who performed with Bocelli on the "[[Night of the Proms]]" tour in Europe in 1995, described him as "the most beautiful voice in the world,"<ref name="Bocelli - People 1997">[http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20123691,00.html Blind Ambition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119182703/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20123691,00.html |date=19 January 2010 }} [[People (magazine)|People Magazine]] 10 November 1997, issue.</ref> and American talk show host [[Oprah Winfrey]] commented on [[The Oprah Winfrey Show|her talk show]] that, "when I hear Andrea sing, I burst into tears."<ref name="Bocelli fans"/><ref name="Bocelli Cieli di Toscana"/> After attending Bocelli's concert at the [[Hollywood Bowl]] in 2009, British-American actress [[Elizabeth Taylor]] said, "My mind, my soul were transported by his beauty, his voice, his inner being. God has kissed this man and I thank God for it."<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/09/liz.taylor.outing/index.html Elizabeth Taylor makes first outing 'in months] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090917005829/http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/09/liz.taylor.outing/index.html |date=17 September 2009 }}, [[CNN]], 9 June 2009, article.</ref> Taylor had been a passionate fan of Bocelli's since the beginning of his music career in the mid-1990s.<ref>[http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-01-13/entertainment/17677176_1_sling-blade-elizabeth-taylor-roddy-mcdowall Taylor Among Bocelli's Fans / Actress pushing 'The Prayer' for Oscar] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118080350/http://articles.sfgate.com/1999-01-13/entertainment/17677176_1_sling-blade-elizabeth-taylor-roddy-mcdowall |date=18 January 2012 }}, [[San Francisco Chronicle|SFGate.com]], 23 January 1999, article.</ref> Other fans include [[Albert II, Prince of Monaco]], who invited the tenor to sing at [[Wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco, and Charlene Wittstock|his wedding]], as well as [[Sarah, Duchess of York]], and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].<ref name="Bocelli - People 1997"/>
 
Bocelli's voice, more specifically his interpretation of opera, has been regularly criticized by classical music critics. These include [[Bernard Holland]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' and Andrew Clements of ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref name="NYT991101">{{cite news|last=Tommasini|first=Anthony|title=A Blind Pop Tenor Takes on the Operatic Stage|url=http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/01/arts/opera-review-a-blind-pop-tenor-takes-on-the-operatic-stage.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 November 1999|archive-date=24 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224190612/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/01/arts/opera-review-a-blind-pop-tenor-takes-on-the-operatic-stage.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1999, ''The New York Times'' chief music critic [[Anthony Tommasini]] in his review of Bocelli's North American opera debut at the Detroit Opera House in the title role of Massenet's ''Werther'' commented, "The basic colour of Mr. Bocelli's voice is warm and pleasant, but he lacks the technique to support and project his sound. His sustained notes wobble. His soft high notes are painfully weak. Inadequate breath control often forces him to clip off notes prematurely at the end of phrases."<ref name="NYT991101"/> In December 2000, Tommasini again criticised Bocelli, this time for his ''La bohème'' album when he stated that Bocelli "still has trouble with basic things, like breath support" and his voice had been "carefully recorded ... to help it match the trained voices of the other cast members in fullness and presence."<ref>{{cite news|last=Tommasini|first=Anthony|title=Bocelli Seeks Legitimacy (And Bucks) In 'Boheme'|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/arts/music-bocelli-seeks-legitimacy-and-bucks-in-boheme.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=3 December 2000|archive-date=24 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224190627/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/03/arts/music-bocelli-seeks-legitimacy-and-bucks-in-boheme.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In describing Bocelli's singing, ''The New York Times'' music critic Bernard Holland noted, "the tone is rasping, thin and, in general, poorly supported. Even the most modest upward movement thins it even more, signalling what appears to be the onset of strangulation. To his credit, Mr Bocelli sings mostly in tune. But his phrasing tends toward carelessness and rhythmic jumble... The diction is not clear."<ref>{{cite news|last=Holland|first=Bernard|title=Spectator-Friendly, and Critic-Proof in a Sea of Approval|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/arts/music/08boce.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=8 September 2006|archive-date=11 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011003224/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/arts/music/08boce.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Furthermore, Holland observed that "The critic's duty is to report that Mr Bocelli is not a very good singer." The [[Associated Press]] reported "Passion? Yes. Power. No. Bocelli's voice – though robust in spirit and precisely in tune, even in the upper register – had a thin quality that never opened up."<ref>{{cite news|last=Usborne|first=David|title='Rasping': New York critics' verdict on Bocelli|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/rasping-new-york-critics-verdict-on-bocelli-415229.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=9 September 2006|archive-date=21 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221043228/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/rasping-new-york-critics-verdict-on-bocelli-415229.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Similarly, classical music critic Andrew Clements found Bocelli's studio opera recordings consistently disappointing in quality: "Bocelli's profoundly unmusical contribution, with its unvaryingly coarse tone, wayward intonation and never a phrase properly shaped, fatally undermines all their contributions."<ref>{{cite news|last=Clements|first=Andrew|title=CD: Verdi: Il Trovatore: Bocelli/ Villaroel/ Zaremba/ Guelfi/ Colombara/ Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania Chorus & Orchestra/ Mercurio|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/jul/16/classicalmusicandopera.shopping5|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=The Guardian|date=16 July 2004|archive-date=14 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214074606/http://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/jul/16/classicalmusicandopera.shopping5|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Anne Midgette]] of ''The New York Times'' agreed, noting "a thinness of voice, oddly anemic phrasing (including shortchanging upper notes of phrases in a most untenorial manner), a curious lack of expression."<ref>{{cite news|last=Midgette|first=Anne|title=Andrea Bocelli Does Opera, Take 2|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/arts/music-high-notes-andrea-bocelli-does-opera-take-2.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=18 May 2003|archive-date=24 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224190621/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/18/arts/music-high-notes-andrea-bocelli-does-opera-take-2.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
During a 2009 performance in New York, the music critic Steve Smith wrote "For cognoscenti of vocal artistry the risks involved in Mr. Bocelli's undertakings, both then and now, need no explanation. Substantial technical shortcomings masked by amplification are laid bare in a more conventional classical setting. Mr. Bocelli's tone can be pleasant, and his pitch is generally secure. But his voice is small and not well supported; his phrasing, wayward and oddly inexpressive."<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Steve|title=No Mikes: Just a Man, His Voice and Fans|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/arts/music/10bocelli.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 September 2009|archive-date=18 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718015916/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/arts/music/10bocelli.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
In 2010, Joe Banno of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' gave an unfavorable review of Bocelli's [[Carmen: Duets & Arias|''Carmen'' recording]], describing the oft-noted failings in Bocelli's vocal resources on full display in this performance: "Bocelli, to be fair, possesses an essentially lovely tenor and knows his stuff when it comes to selling a pop ballad. And Decca's close miking of his puny voice inflates his sound to near-[[Franco Corelli]]-like dimensions. But his short-breathed, clumsily phrased, interpretively blank and often pinched and strained singing makes his Don Jose a tough listen."<ref>{{cite news|last=Banno|first=Joe|title=CD review: Decca's 'Carmen,' featuring Andrea Bocelli|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/05/AR2010080507429.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=8 August 2010|archive-date=5 November 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105091532/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/05/AR2010080507429.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Recognition==
{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Andrea Bocelli}}
 
===Honors===
* Grand Officer of the [[Order of Merit of the Italian Republic]] (''Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana'') awarded in Rome, on 4 March 2006.<ref name="BOC2006"/><ref name="radioitalia1169"/>
* Grand Officer of the [[Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella]] by the President of the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Leonel Fernández]] in 2009, for his contributions to International art and culture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dominicanoshoy.com/2009/04/30/gobierno-condecora-a-andrea-bocelli/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141016023643/http://dominicanoshoy.com/articulos/articulo/gobierno-condecora-a-andrea-bocelli|title=Gobierno condecora a Andrea Bocelli|archivedate=16 October 2014}}</ref><ref>[http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/594822.html Andrea Bocelli, decorated in Dominican] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509200440/http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/594822.html |date=9 May 2009 }}, [[El Universal (Mexico City)]] 2009 article</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Global Foundation for Democracy and Development – Dominican Republic|url=http://www.dominicanaonline.org/portal/espanol/cpo_noti1587.asp|title=Decoration of Italian artist Andrea Bocelli|publisher=Dominicanaonline.org|access-date=6 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730131106/http://www.dominicanaonline.org/portal/espanol/cpo_noti1587.asp|archive-date=30 July 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]], for his contribution to [[Theatre|live theater]], at 7000 [[Hollywood Boulevard]], in 2010.<ref name="Bocelli gets Star (1)"/>
* Gold medal for Merit by the president of Serbia [[Aleksandar Vučić]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.aroj.net/2022/07/22/vucic-with-bocelij-and-mariza-the-president-awarded-medals-for-meritorious-artists-to-great-artists-photo/ | title=VUCIĆ WITH BOČELIJ AND MARIZA: The President awarded medals for meritorious artists to great artists (PHOTO) | date=22 July 2022 | access-date=24 July 2022 | archive-date=6 October 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006201740/https://www.aroj.net/2022/07/22/vucic-with-bocelij-and-mariza-the-president-awarded-medals-for-meritorious-artists-to-great-artists-photo/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>
 
===Selected awards===
{{main|List of awards and nominations received by Andrea Bocelli}}
* Winner of the 1994 Newcomers section of the [[Sanremo Music Festival]].<ref name="BOC1994">{{cite web|title=Chronicle 1992–1994|publisher=bocelli.de|url=http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1992.htm|access-date=21 January 2008|archive-date=25 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060825222807/http://www.bocelli.de/en/chronicle1992.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[ECHO (music award)|ECHO]] music award for "[[ECHO (music award)#Single of the Year (National)|Best Single of the Year]]" for "[[Con te partirò|Time to Say Goodbye]]", in 1997.<ref name="BOC1995"/>
* [[ECHO (music award)|ECHO Klassik]] "Best seller of the year" award for his album, ''[[Viaggio Italiano]]'' in 1997.<ref name="BOC1995"/><ref name="echo1997"/>
* [[Bambi Award]] in 1997.<ref name="BOC1995"/>
* Two [[World Music Awards]], one in the category "Best Italian Singer", and one for "Best Classical Interpretation" in 1998.<ref name="BOC1998"/><ref name="IHT6768960"/>
* [[ECHO (music award)|ECHO Klassik]], for "Best selling classical album" with ''[[Aria: The Opera Album]]'' in 1998.<ref name="BOC1998" />
* [[ECHO (music award)|ECHO Klassik]] for "Bestseller of the year" for ''[[Sacred Arias (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sacred Arias]]'' in 2000.<ref name="BOC2000"/>
* Two [[Classical BRIT Awards#2000|2000 Classical BRIT Awards]] for "Best selling classical album" and "Album of the year" for ''[[Sacred Arias (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sacred Arias]]'' in 2000.<ref name="BOC2000"/>
* [[Goldene Europa]] for classical music in 2000.<ref name="BOC2000"/>
* [[Goldene Kamera]] award in the "Music & Entertainment" category 2002.<ref name="BOC2002"/>
* Two [[World Music Awards]], for "World best selling classical artist" and for "Best selling Italian artist" in 2002.<ref name="BOC2002"/>
* [[Telegatto| Telegatto award]] for the soundtrack of the series ''[[Heart (novel)|Cuore]]'' in 2002.<ref name="BOC2002"/>
* [[Classical BRIT Awards#2002|2002 Classical BRIT Award]] for "[[Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music|Outstanding Contribution to Music]]" in 2002.<ref name="BOC2002"/>
* Two [[Classical BRIT Awards#2003|2003 Classical BRIT Awards]] for "Best selling classical album" and "Album of the year" for ''[[Sentimento]]'' in 2003.<ref name="BBC2931456"/>
* Two [[2006 World Music Awards|World Music Awards]] for "Best Italian Artist" and "World's Best-selling Classical Artist" in 2006.<ref name="BOC2006"/>
* [[Telegatto| Telegatto award]] in platinum for ''Italian music in the world'' in 2008.<ref name="BOC2008" />
* [[2010 World Music Awards|World Music Awards]] for "World's Best-selling Classical Artist" in 2010.
* "America Award" of the [[Italy–USA Foundation]] in 2012.
* "International Artist of the Year in association with Raymond Weil" of the [[Classic Brit Awards]] 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classicbrits.co.uk/winners/|title=The Classic BRIT Awards 2012 with MasterCard – Winners|publisher=classicbrits.co.uk|date=2 October 2012|access-date=3 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005054520/http://www.classicbrits.co.uk/winners/|archive-date=5 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* The [[Billboard Latin Music Lifetime Achievement Award]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Cobo|first1=Leila|last2=Cantor-Navas|first2=Judy|title=Marc Anthony's Salsa Revival Sweeps Billboard Latin Music Awards|url=https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/record-labels/6069821/marc-anthonys-salsa-revival-sweeps-billboard-latin-music|magazine=Billboard|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|access-date=7 December 2017|date=24 April 2014|archive-date=4 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204025837/https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/record-labels/6069821/marc-anthonys-salsa-revival-sweeps-billboard-latin-music|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* "[[Art, Science and Peace Prize]]" 2015 from PIER FRANCO MARCENARO founder of "Man Center" and "School of Spirituality" for Andrea Bocelli art which elevates the spirit.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schoolofspirituality.org/Award_2015_ENG.html|title=PIER FRANCO MARCENARO Awards 2015|date=5 December 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106142546/http://www.schoolofspirituality.org/Award_2015_ENG.html|archive-date=6 January 2016}}</ref>
 
==Personal life==
[[File:Veronica Berti and Andrea Bocelli 2023-11-16 Gala de los Latin Grammy, 21 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Bocelli with his wife Veronica Berti in 2023]]
Bocelli met his first wife, Enrica Cenzatti,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fanpix.net/picture-gallery/enrica-bocelli-picture-10544745.htm |title=Wedding photo of Enrica Cenzatti and Andrea Bocelli |access-date=19 June 2012 |archive-date=12 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812003545/http://www.fanpix.net/picture-gallery/enrica-bocelli-picture-10544745.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> while singing at piano bars early in his career.<ref name="chronicle"/> They were married on 27 June 1992. Their first child, son Amos, was born 22 February 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-2348525/amos-bocelli-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people|title=Biographical Summaries of Notable People: Amos Bocelli|publisher=[[MyHeritage]]|access-date=27 May 2020|archive-date=27 May 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200527151326/https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-2348525/amos-bocelli-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people|url-status=live}}</ref> Their second son, Matteo, was born on 8 October 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-2348527/matteo-bocelli-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people|title=Biographical Summaries of Notable People: Matteo Bocelli|publisher=MyHeritage|access-date=27 May 2020|archive-date=27 May 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200527151534/https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10182-2348527/matteo-bocelli-in-biographical-summaries-of-notable-people|url-status=live}}</ref> The couple separated in 2002.<ref name=biography.com>{{cite web|url= https://www.biography.com/musician/andrea-bocelli|title=Andrea Bocelli Biography: Pianist, Singer (1958–)|publisher= [[Biography.com]]|access-date=27 May 2020|archive-date=15 May 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200515012528/https://www.biography.com/musician/andrea-bocelli|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 30 April 2000, Bocelli's father, Alessandro Bocelli, died. His mother encouraged him to honor his commitments, and so he sang for [[Pope John Paul II]], in Rome, on 1 May, and immediately returned home for the funeral. At his 5 July performance, filmed for PBS as ''American Dream—Andrea Bocelli's [[Statue of Liberty]] Concert'', Bocelli dedicated the encore ''Sogno'' (Dream), from his 1999 album ''[[Sogno]]'', to the memory of his father.<ref name="BOC2000"/>
 
Bocelli lives with his second wife and manager, Veronica Berti. They met in 2002. In September 2011, the couple announced that Berti was expecting her first and Bocelli's third child, a daughter,<ref>{{cite news|title=Bocelli's fiancee expecting his first daughter|url=http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/bocellis-fiancee-expecting-first-daughter-220000639.html|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=Yahoo omg! UK|date=14 November 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203145944/http://uk.omg.yahoo.com/news/bocellis-fiancee-expecting-first-daughter-220000639.html|archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> in the spring. His daughter Virginia was born 21 March 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=Virginia arriva con la primavera Fiocco rosa in casa Bocelli|url=http://www.lanazione.it/massa_carrara/cronaca/2012/03/21/684764-bocelli-virginia-parto.shtml|access-date=10 December 2013|newspaper=[[La Nazione]]|language=it|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203034156/http://www.lanazione.it/massa_carrara/cronaca/2012/03/21/684764-bocelli-virginia-parto.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Bocelli married Veronica Berti on 21 March 2014, at the [[Sanctuary of Montenero]] in the coastal town of Livorno, Italy.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://people.com/celebrity/andrea-bocelli-marries-veronica-berti/|title=Andrea Bocelli Marries Veronica Berti|magazine=People|language=EN|access-date=13 March 2020|archive-date=17 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417141829/https://people.com/celebrity/andrea-bocelli-marries-veronica-berti/|url-status=live}}</ref> The couple lives in [[Forte dei Marmi]] on the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]]. Bocelli's first wife and two sons live in the couple's previous residence in the same [[comune]], in [[Versilia]].<ref name="Bocelli fans"/>
 
On 12 November 2022, Andrea, Matteo and Virginia (aged 10) sang together at The Royal Albert Hall at the UK Festival of Remembrance.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/who-performing-festival-remembrance-2022-28468221 |title=Festival of Remembrance line-up, how to watch and famous venue it's held in |date=12 November 2022 |access-date=12 November 2022 |archive-date=12 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112182709/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/who-performing-festival-remembrance-2022-28468221 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
Bocelli has enjoyed [[horseback riding]] for much of his life.<ref>Interview segment with [[Gayle King]] for ''[[CBS This Morning]]'' (broadcast several times during 2018).</ref>{{Better source needed|date=October 2024}}
 
A section of the beach in [[Jesolo]], on the Italian [[Adriatic coast]], was named after Bocelli on 11 August 2003.<ref name="BOC2003"/>
 
In October 2013, Bocelli bought a second home in [[North Miami Beach]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/10/21/one-on-one-with-andrea-bocelli/|title=One-On-One With Andrea Bocelli|work=CBS News|date=21 October 2013|access-date=23 January 2014|author=Petrillo, Lisa|archive-date=23 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023204142/http://miami.cbslocal.com/2013/10/21/one-on-one-with-andrea-bocelli/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
Bocelli is a self-declared fan of Italian football club [[Inter Milan]]. In an interview in Pisa, he told a group of Inter fans that "My passion for Inter started during my college years, when Inter was winning everything in Italy and the world. When Inter won the Champions League in 2010, I was with my friends and I was listening to the game on the radio, and everything was a little bit in advance so I was celebrating before them. That night I was also brought to tears of joy. The treble is a feeling no one in Italy will be able to equal".<ref>{{cite web|title=Andrea Bocelli is a fan of Inter|url=http://www.fcinternews.it/news/bocelli-interista-dagli-anni-del-collegio-il-triplete-gioia-ineguagliabile-la-sera-di-madrid-esultai-prima-perche-266762|website=fcinternews.it|access-date=13 January 2018|archive-date=13 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113150405/http://www.fcinternews.it/news/bocelli-interista-dagli-anni-del-collegio-il-triplete-gioia-ineguagliabile-la-sera-di-madrid-esultai-prima-perche-266762|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
On 12 November 2023, Bocelli performed 'Hallelujah' with his daughter Virginia on the BBC One programme "Strictly Come Dancing". Bocelli performed 'Oh Holy Night' with his son Matteo on the December 2023 theatrical release of "Christmas with the Chosen: Holy Night".
 
===Teatro del Silenzio===
{{Main|Teatro del Silenzio}}
In 2006, Bocelli convinced the municipality of his hometown [[Lajatico]] to build an outdoor theatre, the "[[Teatro del Silenzio]]".<ref name="BBCdoc">{{cite video|title=Andrea Bocelli: The Story Behind the Voice|medium=television documentary|publisher=BBC|date=25 December 2007}}</ref> He serves as its honorary president and performs usually for one night only, every July; the rest of the year, the theatre doesn't operate.
 
Since its opening in 2006, guest performers have included [[Plácido Domingo]], [[José Carreras]], [[Sarah Brightman]], [[Katherine Jenkins]], [[Zucchero]], [[Laura Pausini]], and [[Elisa (Italian singer)|Elisa]]. Bocelli's guests have also included instrumentalists [[Lang Lang]], [[Chris Botti]], and [[Kenny G]]. The 2007 concert was [[Vivere Live in Tuscany|released on CD and DVD]] in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vivere: Andrea Bocelli Live in Tuscany|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/vivere-andrea-bocelli-live-in-tuscany/introduction/128/|work=[[PBS]]|date=14 December 2007|publisher=Educational Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=18 December 2013|archive-date=19 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219144247/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/vivere-andrea-bocelli-live-in-tuscany/introduction/128/|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
==Discography==
{{Main|Andrea Bocelli discography}}
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===Studio albums===
* ''[[Il Mare Calmo della Sera|Il mare calmo della sera]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Bocelli (album)|Bocelli]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Viaggio Italiano]]'' (1996/1997)
* ''[[Aria: The Opera Album]]'' (1998)
* ''[[Sogno]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Sacred Arias (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sacred Arias]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Verdi (album)|Verdi]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Cieli di Toscana]]'' (2001)
* ''[[Sentimento]]'' (2002)
* ''[[Andrea (Andrea Bocelli album)|Andrea]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Amore (Andrea Bocelli album)|Amore]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Incanto]]'' (2008)
* ''[[My Christmas]]'' (2009)
* ''[[Passione (Andrea Bocelli album)|Passione]]'' (2013)
* ''[[Cinema (Andrea Bocelli album)|Cinema]]'' (2015)
* ''[[Sì (Andrea Bocelli album)|Sì]]'' (2018)
* ''[[Believe (Andrea Bocelli album)|Believe]]'' (2020)
 
===Collaborative albums===
* ''A Hymn for the World'' (1997)
* ''A Hymn for the World 2: Voices from Heaven'' (1998)
* ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Verdi's Requiem]]'' (2000)
* ''[[Carmen: Duets & Arias]]'' (2010)
* ''A Family Christmas'' (2022)
 
== Filmography ==
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|+
!Year
!Title
!Actor
!Adaptation
!Role
!Type
!Ref.
|-
|2009
|''Omaggio a Roma''
|{{yes}}
|
|Mario Cavaradossi
|Short
|<ref>{{Citation |title=Omaggio a Roma (Short 2009) - IMDb |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483793/ |access-date=5 April 2023 |archive-date=6 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406225739/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483793/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2017
|''[[The Music of Silence]]''
|
|{{yes}}
|
|Feature film
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 September 2017 |title=La Musica del Silenzio, sulla vita di Andrea Bocelli, in sala il 18-19-20 settembre |url=https://movieplayer.it/news/la-musica-del-silenzio-sulla-vita-di-andrea-bocelli-in-sala-il-18-19-2_52996/ |access-date=29 September 2017 |website=Movieplayer.it |language=it |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405161511/https://movieplayer.it/news/la-musica-del-silenzio-sulla-vita-di-andrea-bocelli-in-sala-il-18-19-2_52996/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2022
|''A Bocelli Family Christmas''
|{{yes}}
|
|Himself
|Television film
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Phillips |first=Sharon |date=2 December 2022 |title=YouTube features Impact Production's film, A Bocelli Family Christmas |url=https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/youtube-features-impact-productions-film-a-bocelli-family-christmas |access-date=5 April 2023 |website=2 News Oklahoma KJRH Tulsa |language=en-US |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405162541/https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/youtube-features-impact-productions-film-a-bocelli-family-christmas |url-status=live }}</ref>
|}
 
== Television ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Title
!Network
!Ref.
|-
|2009
|''L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra - Concerto per l'Abruzzo''
|[[Rai 1]]
|
|-
|2011
|''[[Concerto: One Night in Central Park]]''
|[[WNET]]
|<ref name="Central Park Guests"/>
|-
|2016
|''Bocelli & Zanetti Night''
|[[Canale 5]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Graziola |first=Alberto |date=27 May 2016 |title=Bocelli and Zanetti Night {{!}} Tutti gli ospiti e le esibizioni della serata |url=https://www.soundsblog.it/post/bocelli-and-zanetti-night-concerto-canale-5-anticipazioni-cantanti-ospiti-diretta |access-date=5 April 2023 |website=Soundsblog |language=it |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405161512/https://www.soundsblog.it/post/bocelli-and-zanetti-night-concerto-canale-5-anticipazioni-cantanti-ospiti-diretta |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2017
|''Andrea Bocelli Show''
|Rai 1
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=RAI: SUCCESSO STRAORDINARIO PER BOCELLI AL COLOSSEO |url=http://www.rai.it/ufficiostampa/articoli/2017/09/ANDREA-BOCELLI-SHOW-79f8683e-102c-4eaf-9780-73a229f1f82e.html |access-date=5 April 2023 |website=[[RAI|RAI Ufficio Stampa]] |language=IT |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129035407/https://www.rai.it/ufficiostampa/assets/template/us-articolo.html?ssiPath=/articoli/2017/09/ANDREA-BOCELLI-SHOW-79f8683e-102c-4eaf-9780-73a229f1f82e-ssi.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2018
|''La notte di Andrea Bocelli''
|Rai 1
|
|-
|2019
|''Ali di libertà''
|Rai 1
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrea Bocelli Ali di libertà |url=http://www.rai.it/ufficiostampa/articoli/2019/09/Andrea-Bocelli-Ali-di-liberta-670f792b-f4ef-48d9-833f-8cbcad6ef940.html |access-date=5 April 2023 |website=[[RAI|RAI Ufficio Stampa]] |language=IT |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129035258/https://www.rai.it/ufficiostampa/assets/template/us-articolo.html?ssiPath=/articoli/2019/09/Andrea-Bocelli-Ali-di-liberta-670f792b-f4ef-48d9-833f-8cbcad6ef940-ssi.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2020
|''Music for Hope''
|Rai 1
|
|-
|2020
|''Silent Night: A Christmas Prayer''
|Canale 5
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=25 December 2020 |title=Silent Night: A Christmas Prayer, Andrea Bocelli in concerto |url=https://tvzap.kataweb.it/news/283696/silent-night-a-christmas-prayer-andrea-bocelli-in-concerto/ |access-date=5 April 2023 |website=Tvzap |language=it-IT |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405161512/https://tvzap.kataweb.it/news/283696/silent-night-a-christmas-prayer-andrea-bocelli-in-concerto/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2021
|''Dal Circo Massimo, Andrea Bocelli!''
|[[Rai 3]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |year=2021 |title=''Dal Circo Massimo, Andrea Bocelli!'' Su Rai3 |url=https://www.rai.it/ufficiostampa/articoli/2021/07/Dal-Circo-Massimo-Andrea-Bocelli-Su-Rai3-30ac1afc-6bc6-42ed-844b-39f183cde913.html |access-date=5 April 2023 |website=[[RAI|RAI Ufficio Stampa]] |language=IT |archive-date=29 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129035418/https://www.rai.it/ufficiostampa/assets/template/us-articolo.html?ssiPath=/articoli/2021/07/Dal-Circo-Massimo-Andrea-Bocelli-Su-Rai3-30ac1afc-6bc6-42ed-844b-39f183cde913-ssi.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2022
|''[[The Simpsons Meet the Bocellis in "Feliz Navidad"|The Simpsons Meet The Bocellis in Feliz Navidad]]''
|[[Disney+]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Simpsons Meet The Bocellis in Feliz Navidad Release Announced by Disney+ |url=https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-simpsons-meet-bocellisn-feliz-navidad-disney-plus-feature-release-date/ |access-date=7 December 2022 |website=TV Shows |date=7 December 2022 |archive-date=15 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221215205256/https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/the-simpsons-meet-bocellisn-feliz-navidad-disney-plus-feature-release-date/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2022
|''Andrea Bocelli: Natale in famiglia''
|[[Sky Uno]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 December 2022 |title=Tutto pronto per Andrea Bocelli: Natale in famiglia |url=https://www.libero.it/magazine/news/andrea-bocelli-natale-in-famiglia-cosa-e-e-dove-vederlo-75984 |access-date=5 April 2023 |website=www.libero.it |language=it-IT |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405161513/https://www.libero.it/magazine/news/andrea-bocelli-natale-in-famiglia-cosa-e-e-dove-vederlo-75984 |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|2023
|''The Journey: A Music Special from Andrea Bocelli''
|[[Paramount+]]
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thornton |first=Craig |date=3 April 2023 |title=The Journey: A Musical Special by Andrea Bocelli |url=https://www.wwnytv.com/2023/04/03/journey-musical-special-by-andrea-bocelli/ |access-date=5 April 2023 |website=WWNY {{!}} News, Weather, and Sports {{!}} Watertown, N.Y. |language=en-US |archive-date=5 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230405161513/https://www.wwnytv.com/2023/04/03/journey-musical-special-by-andrea-bocelli/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|}
 
==Bibliography==
Bocelli is the author, and co-author, of numerous works available in Italian, English, and other languages. Some books are available in Braille and others in large print.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Aandrea+bocelli&qt=advanced&dblist=638|title=Search results for 'au:andrea bocelli'|author=WorldCat|access-date=11 October 2012|archive-date=19 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151019065144/http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Aandrea+bocelli&qt=advanced&dblist=638|url-status=live}}</ref> The list below is limited to his English language books which are widely available.
 
* {{cite book|title=The music of silence: a memoir by Andrea Bocelli|last=Bocelli|first=A.|orig-year=1999|year=2002|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|oclc=54699002}} Braille edition, ISBN not available.
* {{cite book|title=The music of silence: a memoir|last=Bocelli|first=A.|year=2002|publisher=Thorndike Press|location=Waterville, ME|isbn=978-0-7862-3900-9|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780786239009}} Large print edition.
* {{cite book|title=Andrea Bocelli – Amore.|last=Bocelli|first=A.|year=2007|publisher=Hal Leonard Corp|location=Milwaukee, WI|isbn=978-88-507-0992-2}}
* {{cite book|title=The music of silence: a memoir|last=Bocelli|first=A.|year=2001|publisher=HarperEntertainment|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-621286-9|url=https://archive.org/details/musicofsilence00andr}}
* {{cite book|title=The Music of Silence; New Edition.|last=Bocelli|first=A.|year=2011|publisher=Hal Leonard Corp|location=Milwaukee, WI|isbn=978-1-57467-197-1}}
 
==See also==
* [[Italian estimated best-selling music artists]]
 
==References==
{{Reflist}}
 
==External links==
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