PAVAROTTI annually hosted the ‘Pavarotti and Friends’ charity concerts in his home town of Modena in Italy, joining with singers from all parts of the music industry, including Eric Clapton, Elton John, Sting, Bono, Andrea Bocelli, Sheryl Crow, Celine Dion and Jon Bon Jovi, to raise money for several UN causes. Concerts were held for War Child, and victims of war and civil unrest in Bosnia, Guatemala, Kosovo, and Iraq. This 70 min. special ‘The Duets’ presents the most emotional and world-famous pieces of the entire ‘Pavarotti and Friends’ series: BRYAN ADAMS ‘O Sole Mio, ANDREA BOCELLI Notte ‘e piscatore, BON JOVI Let It Rain, BONO/THE EDGE/BRIAN ENO Miss Sarajevo, JAMES BROWN It’s A Man’s World, MARIAH CAREY Hero, ERIC CLAPTON Holy Mother, SHERYL CROW Là ci darem la mano, CELINE DION I Hate You When I Love You, EURYTHMICS There Must Be An Angel, ELTON JOHN Live Like Horses, LIONEL RICHIE The Magic Of Love, STING Paris Angelicus, ZUCCHERO Miserere.
Andrea Bocelli – Live in Central Park
The world’s most beloved tenor, Andrea Bocelli, gifts New York City with a once in a lifetime musical event: a free concert with the New York Philharmonic to take place at Central Park’s Great Lawn. As guests: Celine Dion, Tony Bennett and Bryn Terfel, amongst others. The New York Philharmonic’s music director, Alan Gilbert, conducts. On the programme world-famous hits like ‘La donna è mobile’, I pescatori di perle (Duet), ‘E lucevan le stelle’ & Te deum (Tosca), ‘O soave fanciulla’ (La Bohème), ‘Brindisi’ , ‘Funiculi funicular’, ‘O’ Sole Mio’, ‘Volare’, ‘New York, New York’, ‘Amazing Grace’, ‘Time to say Goodby’, ‘Nessun Dorma’, La forza del destino (Ouverture), Candide (Ouverture), and many more.