Andrea Bocelli - A Night In Tuscany [1997]

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Part concert, part documentary, part travelogue, this video hit duplicates the success of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's albums and underscores his unique crossover appeal. Critical response to Bocelli has been confined to fusillades of scorn from classical and opera writers, but the bullet-proof superstar is better understood in the context of a mainland European tradition of pop-classical fusion. Bocelli cheerfully ignores the supposed wall between high (classical) art and low (pop) kitsch with his mix of operatic chestnuts, soft pop and traditional Italian songs.

Indeed, despite interview segments in which he proclaims his love of opera or proudly recalls an apprenticeship to operatic veteran Franco Corelli, Bocelli comes across as more fan than virtuoso. But if his voice can prompt technical cavils from hard-core opera buffs, the blind singer's emotional directness and relative lack of onstage preening explain much of his populist appeal. Featured songs include warhorse arias, leading off with the "Louie, Louie" of tenor showpieces, Turandot's "Nessun Dorma" and duets with gruff Italian pop-rocker Zucchero and sopranos Nuccia Focile and Sarah Brightman (who buddies up for the tear-jerking closer, "Time to Say Goodbye"). Even with the marquee bonus of those guests, however, A Night in Tuscany gets its biggest boost from the seductive Italian countryside, prominently featured in between-song segments, and in the romantic concert setting, Pisa's Piazza dei Cavalieri. --Sam Sutherland

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Special Features
16:9 Wide Screen
English\Italian
Region 2
Dolby AC-3 Stereo English Italian
Dolby AC-3 Stereo
Scene Access
French

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Synopsis
The celebrated Italian vocal artist returns home to Tuscany, where he performs tracks from his albums "Romanza" and "Viaggio Italiano" and reunites with his family in candid personal footage. A NIGHT IN TUSCANY intersperses exclusive interviews, emotional performances, and gorgeous travel photography of Tuscany, creating a fully realized world which helps to the man behind the performer. Highlights of the video include moving duets with renowned vocalist Sarah Brightman and Italian pop star Zucchero.

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2007-11-09 rating:
Andrea Bocelli - A Night In Tuscany [1997]
This DVD is worth it for the last 2 tracks alone. Duets with Zuccero and Sarah Brightman, the rest is a bonus. As for the poor picture quality mentioned in a previous review - it is shot in high contrast - for effect in my opinion. I am a photographer so picture quality is important to me. This is within DVD quality tolerance.
Summary: - WONDERFUL - BUY IT.

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review by: date: 2001-03-11 rating:
Sumptuous sound - enormous enjoyment.
OK , forget all you might have heard about the "classically trained" debate - if you are prepared to relax and straightforwardly enjoy someone singing their heart out in the land he loves, then this DVD is for you.

The occasional film clips of Tuscany and AB's family are brief and appropriate, and the warmth of this man and his voice reaches out, wrapping around you like a sulty Italian evening. If it's an illusion, it's a particularly seductive one which I was very happy to enjoy at its own pace and for its own sake.

Many of the songs are the staple "3 tenors" fare with which we have all become familiar, but they are presented here with a sincerity and perhaps even simplicity which make them appear much fresher than seems reasonable, given their exposure. It is a tribute to the singer that the overall effect produced by the DVD is entirely one of enjoyment - an enjoyment distinctly enhanced by his ventures into the realms of pop, where the change in his voice is as marked as it is appropriate.

Full marks - if only the video quality had been better than VHS-standard the DVD would have justly deserved five stars.


review by: date: 2001-01-27 rating:
a true vocal masterpiece for all lovers of music !
a grand tour of pisa and the life of andreas is just one of the side lines on this dvd only adding to the music and perfect vocal talents of this warm and expressive vocalist no matter what type of music takes your fancy be it opera or punk youll soon find a small place in your heart melting as you listen to this wonderful tenor , put aside your preducies about them or us in music and just listen and enjoy a journey of discovery through true vocal talent and down to earth passion.

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