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02-10-2019 Bocelli new.qxp_GP 1/31/19 3:11 PM Page 1 02-10-2019 Bocelli new.qxp_GP 1/31/19 3:11 PM Page 2 Sunday, February 10, 2019, at 5:00PM Andrea Bocelli, Three Centuries of Love Sunday, February 17, 2019, at 5:00PM Part Two DELIBES Les Filles de Cadix Boléro ANDREA BOCELLI AIDA GARIFULLINA GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette “L’amour … Ah, lêve-toi soleil” THREE CENTURIES OF LOVE ANDREA BOCELLI featuring GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette “Va, je t’ai pardonné … Nuit d’hyménée” AIDA GARIFULLINA, soprano AIDA GARIFULLINA, ANDREA BOCELLI ISABEL LEONARD, mezzo-soprano NADINE SIERRA, soprano GOUNOD Faust ‘Kermesse’ Waltzes special guest MASSENET Werther “Il faut nous séparer” LUCA PISARONI, bass-baritone ISABEL LEONARD, ANDREA BOCELLI with PUCCINI Manon Lescaut Orchestral Paraphrase MEMBERS OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA EUGENE KOHN, guest conductor PUCCINI Tosca “Recondita armonia” ANDREA BOCELLI Part One PUCCINI La Bohème “O soave fanciulla” ISABEL LEONARD, ANDREA BOCELLI MASSENET Le cid Ballet “Navarraise” MASSENET Le cid “Ah, tout est bien finí … Ô, souverain” ANDREA BOCELLI VERDI I Lombardi “La mia letizia infondere” ANDREA BOCELLI VERDI Un Giorno di Regno Overture VERDI Rigoletto “È il sol dell’anima … Addio, addio” AIDA GARIFULLINA, ANDREA BOCELLI ROSSINI La Cenerentola “Naqui all’affanno” ISABEL LEONARD DONIZETTI La Fille du Régiment “Pour mon âme” ANDREA BOCELLI DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor “M’odi … Sulla tomba che rinserra” NADINE SIERRA, ANDREA BOCELLI (Continued) The Metropolitan Opera House Please make certain your cellular phone, The Metropolitan Opera House Please make certain your cellular phone, pager, or watch alarm is switched off. pager, or watch alarm is switched off. 02-10-2019 Bocelli new.qxp_GP 1/31/19 3:11 PM Page 1 02-10-2019 Bocelli new.qxp_GP 1/31/19 3:11 PM Page 2 02-10-2019 Bocelli new.qxp_GP 1/31/19 3:11 PM Page 3 Sunday, February 10, 2019, at 5:00PM Andrea Bocelli, Three Centuries of Love Andrea Bocelli, Three Centuries of Love Sunday, February 17, 2019, at 5:00PM Part Two Meet the Artists DELIBES Les Filles de Cadix Boléro © M novel of the same name—was a resounding A R K AIDA GARIFULLINA success among the general public and S ANDREA BOCELLI E L I G gained critical acclaim. The movie, directed E GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette “L’amour … Ah, lêve-toi soleil” R by Michael Radford, featured performances THREE CENTURIES OF LOVE ANDREA BOCELLI Andrea Bocelli, by Antonio Banderas and Toby Sebastian. featuring GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette “Va, je t’ai pardonné … Nuit d’hyménée” tenor AIDA GARIFULLINA, soprano AIDA GARIFULLINA, ANDREA BOCELLI Recognized around the world as an icon of On October 26, 2018, Bocelli’s new pop ISABEL LEONARD, mezzo-soprano the greatest Italian vocal tradition, to date album of unreleased songs, Sì, was released NADINE SIERRA, soprano GOUNOD Faust ‘Kermesse’ Waltzes Andrea Bocelli has sold over 90 million in more than 60 countries, and in just a few days it reached No. 1 on the U.K. Albums special guest MASSENET Werther “Il faut nous séparer” records. He improved his singing skills Chart and the U.S. Billboard 200 and Top LUCA PISARONI, bass-baritone ISABEL LEONARD, ANDREA BOCELLI under the guidance of his mentor, Franco with Corelli, and initially became widely famous Classical Albums charts, making history, as PUCCINI Manon Lescaut Orchestral Paraphrase for winning the Sanremo Music Festival in no other Italian singer has ever achieved MEMBERS OF THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ORCHESTRA 1994. At the same time, he started his daz- such results. The new album contains duets EUGENE KOHN, guest conductor PUCCINI Tosca “Recondita armonia” zling classical career, performing master- with Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Aida Garifullina, ANDREA BOCELLI pieces from the opera repertoire on stage— and Josh Groban, as well as the track “Fall conducted by Lorin Maazel, Seiji Ozawa, on Me,” a duet with his son, Matteo Bocelli, Part One PUCCINI La Bohème “O soave fanciulla” ISABEL LEONARD, ANDREA BOCELLI and Zubin Mehta, among others. His recent marking his music industry debut. MASSENET Le cid Ballet “Navarraise” recordings include Chevalier Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut (2014), conducted by Bocelli was honored by the Italian Republic MASSENET Le cid “Ah, tout est bien finí … Ô, souverain” Plácido Domingo; Calaf in Turandot (2015) with a Grande Ufficiale Italian Order of ANDREA BOCELLI and Radames in Aida (2016), conducted by Merit (Grand Officer of the Italian Republic) Program subject to change VERDI I Lombardi “La mia letizia infondere” Zubin Mehta. In 2017, Bocelli recorded La and he was bestowed the title of ANDREA BOCELLI Forza del Destino and in 2018 he performed Ambassador of the Italian Republic of San and recorded Lucia di Lammermoor. Marino. He earned a bachelor’s degree in VERDI Un Giorno di Regno Overture opera singing from the Conservatorio di This record-breaking artist who has per- musica “G. Puccini” in La Spezia, Italy, and VERDI Rigoletto “È il sol dell’anima … Addio, addio” formed in front of huge crowds has broken a bachelor’s degree in law from the AIDA GARIFULLINA, ANDREA BOCELLI every record. His countless acknowledg- University of Pisa, Italy. During the opening ROSSINI La Cenerentola “Naqui all’affanno” ments include a star on the Hollywood Walk ceremony of the World Economic Forum in ISABEL LEONARD of Fame, which he was honored with in Davos in 2015, he was honored with the 2010. Throughout his career, Bocelli has Crystal Award, the prestigious recognition DONIZETTI La Fille du Régiment “Pour mon âme” received five Grammy Award nominations as an artist, a man, a philanthropist. In ANDREA BOCELLI and six Latin Grammy Award nominations. 2016, the University of Macerata He has performed for four U.S. presidents, bestowed him with an honorary degree in DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor “M’odi … Sulla tomba che rinserra” three popes, the British royal family, and modern philology. NADINE SIERRA, ANDREA BOCELLI many prime ministers as well as at the ceremonies of the Olympic Games, the In 2011, he founded the Andrea Bocelli Universal Expo in Shanghai in 2010, and at Foundation with the aim of enhancing the the Universal Expo in Milan in 2015 (together wealth of relationships and the bond of (Continued) with the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala). trust that he has been able to establish wherever he goes around the world, In Fall 2017, the film La musica del silenzio— where he is inevitably considered a musi- inspired by Bocelli’s semiautobiographical cal and ethical point of reference. The Metropolitan Opera House Please make certain your cellular phone, The Metropolitan Opera House Please make certain your cellular phone, pager, or watch alarm is switched off. pager, or watch alarm is switched off. 02-10-2019 Bocelli new.qxp_GP 1/31/19 3:11 PM Page 2 02-10-2019 Bocelli new.qxp_GP 1/31/19 3:11 PM Page 3 02-10-2019 Bocelli new.qxp_GP 1/31/19 3:11 PM Page 4 Andrea Bocelli, Three Centuries of Love Andrea Bocelli, Three Centuries of Love Andrea Bocelli, Three Centuries of Love © D Barenboim. She will also return to the Wiener Part Two E C Meet the Artists C A Staatsoper as Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore and © / DELIBES Les Filles de Cadix Boléro S M I novel of the same name—was a resounding M Gilda in Rigoletto. In concert, Garifullina will A O R N K AIDA GARIFULLINA success among the general public and give solo gala concerts at the Wiener F S O E L W I G gained critical acclaim. The movie, directed L Aida Garifullina, Konzerthaus and across Russia, including at E E R GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette “L’amour … Ah, lêve-toi soleil” R by Michael Radford, featured performances the Moscow Conservatory and the Mariinsky ANDREA BOCELLI Soprano Andrea Bocelli, by Antonio Banderas and Toby Sebastian. Russian soprano Aida Garifullina was born Theatre. She will sing Carmina Burana in GOUNOD Roméo et Juliette “Va, je t’ai pardonné … Nuit d’hyménée” tenor and raised in the Russian city of Kazan. Her Shanghai and at the Forbidden City in Beijing, AIDA GARIFULLINA, ANDREA BOCELLI Recognized around the world as an icon of On October 26, 2018, Bocelli’s new pop mother, choirmaster Layla Ildarova, first as part of Deutsche Grammophon’s 120th the greatest Italian vocal tradition, to date album of unreleased songs, Sì, was released introduced her to music lessons and inspired anniversary celebrations. GOUNOD Faust ‘Kermesse’ Waltzes Andrea Bocelli has sold over 90 million in more than 60 countries, and in just a few her to be an opera singer, leading her to days it reached No. 1 on the U.K. Albums MASSENET Werther “Il faut nous séparer” records. He improved his singing skills study at the Nuremberg University of Music Looking further ahead, Garifullina will make Chart and the U.S. Billboard 200 and Top her debut at the Royal Opera House, ISABEL LEONARD, ANDREA BOCELLI under the guidance of his mentor, Franco and the University of Music and Performing Corelli, and initially became widely famous Classical Albums charts, making history, as Arts Vienna. She subsequently joined the Covent Garden; and will return to the Opéra PUCCINI Manon Lescaut Orchestral Paraphrase for winning the Sanremo Music Festival in no other Italian singer has ever achieved ensemble at the Wiener Staatsoper, where national de Paris, Wiener Staatsoper, and 1994. At the same time, he started his daz- such results. The new album contains duets she was a member from 2013 to 2016. Metropolitan Opera, alongside concerts, PUCCINI Tosca “Recondita armonia” zling classical career, performing master- with Ed Sheeran, Dua Lipa, Aida Garifullina, galas, recitals, festivals, and television broad- ANDREA BOCELLI pieces from the opera repertoire on stage— and Josh Groban, as well as the track “Fall Winner of Operalia 2013, The World Opera casts throughout Europe and beyond.