His two musical sons Amos, 18, and Matteo, 16, play piano. “She has been, therefore, absorbing music since she was born.” His family loves coming here, because “Las Vegas is, among other things, the shopper’s paradise,” he says.īocelli’s daughter Virginia is 21 months old and is always on tour with Bocelli and his love/manager, Veronica Berti. “Conversely, I have the need to concentrate, relax and study.” “Before the concerts, I do not indulge in any distraction,” he says. In 2006, Bocelli recorded his live album and DVD, “Under the Desert Sky,” on a floating stage at Lake Las Vegas Resort.īocelli is back in Vegas to sing Saturday at MGM Grand Garden. His duet with Sarah Brightman, “Time To Say Goodbye,” is a signature song of the Bellagio fountains. Vegas is like “an old friend,” he says in an interview we did by email (because his English is better than my Italian).īocelli’s popular opera voice has been intertwined with Vegas for years.

“I love the contrasts of this city, its dazzling modernity that is made even more evident by the surroundings, wilderness.”

“Sometimes, I think Las Vegas is the tangible expression of the strength of man, of his incredible potential,” Bocelli tells me. Master tenor Andrea Bocelli describes Vegas the way other people describe mountains and Superman.

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