Stars: Andrea Bocelli, Nuccia Focile, Sarah Brightman, Zucchero

Director: David Amphlett

Summary: Luciano Pavarotti's protege Bocelli, filmed in Pisa, Italy. Tracklist includes: 'Nessun Dorma', 'La Donna E Mobile', 'Romanza', 'E Chiove', 'Caruso' and 'O Sole Mio'. Marcello Rota conducts.

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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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 Tuscanygets 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

Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English, Italian
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Scene Access
Subtitles:	French
Year:	1997
Release Date:	November 29, 2004
Runtime:	86 minutes
Certification:	Exempt.
Catalogue Number:	9823192
Keywords:	Music, Night, Andrea, Opera, Concert, Wide, Screen, Classical, Performing, Choral, Operetta, Tuscany, Vocal, Arts, Bocelli, Romanza
Genre:	Music/Performing Arts