On November 27, international superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli lends his unique voice to a lush symphonic salute to the movies, Andrea Bocelli: Cinema, celebrating some of the greatest celluloid songs and scores of all time written by a varied range of Italian and Hollywood composers. The concert special also reunites Andrea Bocelli with legendary music producer David Foster, whose first collaboration with the tenor was Foster's own Academy Award-nominated song "The Prayer," a duet with Celine Dion in 1999.
Ariana Grande, and Nicole Scherzinger, as well as film stars John Travolta, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, and Andy Garcia also joined Bocelli at the concert, filmed on September 18 at Hollywood's Dolby Theater, featuring a set by Broadway's own David Korins (Misery, Hamilton).
The songs in this new concert - many from Oscar-winning scores - are also featured on Bocelli's new album Cinema which will be released globally on October 23 on Sugar Music/Universal Music Group and Verve Music Group in the USA. These cinematic songs are etched in the culture and hearts of several generations including epic theme songs featured in films such as Doctor Zhivago, Love Story, The Godfather, Life is Beautiful, Il Postino, Breakfast at Tiffany's and many more, as well as popular songs from stage musicals, immortalized by their film versions, such as West Side Story and Evita. As a special bonus, there's a brand new song fashioned from the popular Gladiator score.
Hollywood luminaries John Travolta, Ryan O'Neal, Ali MacGraw, and Andy Garcia join Bocelli onstage to speak about the films from which the songs derive.
The special airs on THIRTEEN's Great Performances Friday, November 27 at 9 p.m. (check local listings) as part of the PBS Arts Fall Festival.
Below, watch as he performs EVITA's "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" with Nicole Scherzinger!
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