bocelli.de(utschland)

deutsch
 
 
Home
News
Chronicle
Live
Photos
Schedule
CDs
Thanks
Links
 
To join our 
 
 1st International Online Fan Club,
 
and to receive periodic email updates with news and information about  Andrea Bocelli, 
 
  You can unsubcribe at any time also here ("austragen")
Membership is free.

Berlin, Universal May 14, 2013:
7 Millionen verkaufte Tonträger in Deutschland – für diese herausragende Leistung ehrte die Deutsche Grammophon Star-Tenor Andrea Bocelli am Dienstagabend in Berlin mit einer besonderen Auszeichnung. Überreicht wurde der Preis von keinem geringeren als Mark Wilkinson, President Deutsche Grammophon. Weltweit verkauften sich die Alben des Sängers bereits über 75 Millionen Mal.
Auch Bocellis neuestes Meisterwerk „Passione“ trägt einen erheblichen Teil zu diesem Erfolg bei. Auf diesem besonderen Album befinden sich neben einer Sammlung mediterraner Lovesongs auch bewegende Duette mit Superstars wie Jennifer Lopez, Nelly Furtado und Helene Fischer.
Grund für den Berlin-Besuch des Weltstars ist sein Klassikkonzert in der Philharmonie am heutigen Mittwoch. Weitere Deutschlandkonzerte gibt Bocelli am 16. und 23. Juni auf dem Bayreuther Festplatz und in der Kölner LanxessArena.
14.Mai 2013, Berlin, Universal, Verleihung 7 Mil Award, Photo F. Hochscheid
14.Mai 2013, Berlin, Universal, Verleihung 7 Mil Award, Photo F. Hochscheid 14.Mai 2013, Berlin, Universal, Verleihung 7 Mil Award, Photo F. Hochscheid
14.Mai 2013, Berlin, Universal, Verleihung 7 Mil Award, Photo F. Hochscheid 14.Mai 2013, Berlin, Universal, Verleihung 7 Mil Award, Photo F. Hochscheid

 


 

Forte dei Marmi - 13 gennaio 2013 (English translation below)
Carissimi amici,
Torno a voi dopo un lungo, colpevole silenzio, causato da ritmi davvero impressionanti di lavoro a cui si deve il fatto grave di aver lasciato passare il Natale, senza inviarvi almeno un messaggio di auguri. 
Coloro tra voi che per curiosità abbiano seguito i miei spostamenti su internet, certo sapranno che ho fatto, in poco più di un mese, quindici concerti, televisioni e quant'altro, volando dal Regno Unito agli Stati Uniti, dal Brasile in Germania e poi in Polonia, fino al concerto di Genova. 
Per la vigilia di Natale ero finalmente a casa, stanco, ma molto felice, soprattutto dell'affetto, che nei miei confronti ho percepito ovunque e che custodisco gelosamente come un dono, il più prezioso che un uomo possa ricevere senza meriti particolari, se non quello di dare sempre il meglio di sé.
Vi ringrazio infinitamente della stima, del calore dei vostri applausi, dei sacrifici che fate per incontrarmi ed ascoltare il mio canto, vi ringrazio dei messaggi che mi inviate con ogni mezzo a vostra disposizione, della fiducia che riponete in ogni mia avventura artistica. 
Vi ringrazio, perché senza di voi la mia voce sarebbe come una dichiarazione d'amore scritta sulla sabbia, o affidata al vento; invece voi ci siete e a dire il vero siete in molti. Ciascuno di voi mi trasmette la sua energia positiva ed è grazie ad essa che trovo misteriosamente la forza e l'entusiasmo, per iniziare nuovi percorsi, nuove sfide, il coraggio di salire su nuovi aerei ed attraversare il mare, portando con me i suoni, i profumi, i ricordi più vivi della mia terra, dei miei cari...
Da sempre la musica mi rapisce alla realtà che mi circonda e mi rivela mondi ideali, da cui faccio ritorno con un desiderio irresistibile di comunicare questa meravigliosa esperienza all'umanità intera e so di potermi valere del canto, quale unico strumento adatto a realizzare l'impresa. Allora mi ci butto, con tutte le mie forze, con tutta la mia passione, mentre voi fate tutto il resto.

Fra qualche giorno, come certo già sapete, uscirà il mio nuovo disco: una raccolta di capolavori, che per decenni hanno scaldato il cuore di intere generazioni. 
Per me essi rappresentano un tuffo nella mia prima giovinezza, quando, coi capelli lunghi e un'infinità di sogni nel cassetto, iniziavo a familiarizzare con la musica pop e tra quelle meravigliose pagine di musica, che scoprivo poco a poco, dimenticavo, come per incanto, tutti i miei piccoli problemi adolescenziali.
Bei tempi erano quelli, a dispetto di ciò che a me pareva! Io cantavo la sera nei locali e attorno a me, tanti ragazzi della mia età si innamoravano, si sussurravano all'orecchio frasi rubate alle canzoni; i sogni e le speranze avevano di gran lunga la meglio sulle difficoltà e sulle disillusioni del quotidiano vivere.
Io cantavo così, alla buona, senza concetti e senza preconcetti; cantavo quel che mi suggerivano il cuore e l'età; ciò nondimeno la gente mi ascoltava volentieri e manifestava una certa simpatìa per quel pianista sconosciuto e strano, conchiuso nel suo mondo che già allora era fatto soprattutto di suoni.
Non so con che parole spiegarvi l'intensità dell'emozione provata nel reinterpretare quei brani, così ricchi di bellezza e d'ispirazione da un lato, e dall'altro carichi di ricordi struggenti di un tempo andato, che a me pare ieri.
Spero vi giunga un'eco di quei ricordi, un briciolo di quelle emozioni, di quella vita che ha attraversato tutto il mio essere passionale ed appassionato, come un lampo.
In questi brani ho versato tutto il mio vissuto, del quale oramai siete parte integrante. 
Dal centro del mio mondo, la mia casa, dove ora mi trovo, vi giunga tutta la mia gratitudine ed un forte abbraccio.
Andrea. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear friends,
I am back to you after a long guilty silence due to the very large number of engagements of last month that led me to spend Christmas without even sending you a greeting message.
Those who have, by chance, followed my movements on the Internet, will surely know that in just over a month I have done fifteen concerts, television, and what else, flying from the UK to the United States, from Brazil to Germany and then to Poland up to the Concert in Genoa.
I was finally at home on Christmas Eve, tired but very happy, especially for the affection I felt everywhere and that I keep very jealously in my heart as the most precious thing a man can receive, without any special merit, if not the one to give always his best 
Thank you so much for your respect for the warmth of your applauses, the sacrifices you make to meet me, to listen to my concerts. I am thanking you for all the messages you send me in all the ways you can, and for the way you trust every artistic adventure of mine.
I am thanking you because without you, my voice would be like a declaration of love written on the sand or entrusted to the wind, but instead you are here, and indeed you are quite many
Each of you gives me a positive energy, and it is because of it that, mysteriously, I can find the strength and the enthusiasm to start new routes, new challenges, the courage to get on new planes and cross the sea, bringing with me the sounds, the smells, and the most vivid memories of my land and of my family 
I have always been enraptured by music that takes me away from reality surrounding me to disclose to me ideal worlds, from where I come back with the irresistible desire to communicate this wonderful experience to the whole of mankind .As I know I can use singing as the only available instrument to achieve this task, I throw myself into it with all my passion, while you do the rest.
In a few days, as I am sure you already know, my new CD will be released, it is a collection of masterpieces which for decades have warmed the hearts of generations.
For me it means to jump back into the past, to my early youth, when with long hair and a lot of dreams in my heart I began to become familiar with pop music, and among those pages of wonderful music, which I discovered little by little, I was able to forget all my teenage problems.
Those were good times in spite of what it seemed to me. I sang at night in clubs and around me a lot of people of my age fell in love and whispered to each other’s ear words stolen from the songs; Dreams and hopes had, by far, the better of the difficulties and disappointments of everyday life. 
I sang informally without concepts or pre-conceptions, I sang what my heart and my age suggested me to, nevertheless people were glad to listen to me, showing some sympathy for that strange and unknown pianist secluded in his world, at that time already, made up mostly of sounds.
I do not know what words to use to explain the intensity of the emotions I felt in performing those songs, so full of beauty and of inspiration on the one hand, and so full of touching memories on the other, of a time that has gone by and that seems to me like yesterday.
I hope the echo of those memories can reach you, a little bit of those emotions, of that life that went through my whole passionate being like a flash.
In these songs I have poured all my life of which you are now an integral part.
From the center of the world, my home, where I am now, I am sending you all my gratitude and a warm embrace.
Andrea

 

 
Assisi 
September 22, 2012 
(Andrea's birthday)
 

September 22, 2012, Assisi: on his birthday he receives the award “Pellegrino di pace” in Assisi.
COMUNICATO STAMPA
Proseguendo nella tradizione ormai ultraventennale il Centro Internazionale per la Pace fra i Popoli di Assisi conferirà il riconoscimento di Pellegrino di Pace per l’anno 2011 al Maestro Andrea Bocelli , artista di eccezionale talento e straordinaria umanità , che ha riscosso e riscuote successi un tutto il mondo tenendo alta l’immagine dell’Italia.
Interprete di grande sensibilità, emoziona e commuove chi ascolta al sua splendida voce inducendo le coscienze ad un percorso di più intima spiritualità.
La cerimonia di consegna del riconoscimento, rappresentato da un artistico bronzo del compianto Maestro Norberto, avverrà sabato 22 settembre presso il Teatro Metastasio di Assisi a partire dalle ore 18,30.
Centro Pace Assisi

 

Einer nunmehr über 20 Jahre dauernden Tradition folgend verleiht das internationale Zentrum in Assisi für den Frieden unter den Völkern den Preis “Pilger des Friedens 2012” an Maestro Andrea Bocelli, einen Künstler von überragendem Talent und außergewöhnlicher Menschlichkeit, der das Bild Italiens hochhaltend in der ganzen Welt Erfolge gesammelt hat und weiterhin sammelt.

 

Pisa Universita 13. 9.12 Pisa Universita 13. 9.12
September 13, 2012 Pisa: 
The University of Pisa grants Andrea the Campano d'Oro, an award given to its most meritorious   former students
 
Pisa Universita 13. 9.12
 
Pisa Universita 13. 9.12
Follow this link for the English summary and entire Italian text of the Laudatio

 


Andrea Bocelli Foundation
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
Workshops in Pisa
July 6th 2012 - Challenges - find innovative solutions to help people overcome the limits imposed by their disabilities. Scientists at work
July 10th 2012 - Break the Barriers - Fight against poverty: a commitment for everyone
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 
 
 
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 
 
special guest Muhammad Yunus
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 
 
 
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 president ABF Foundation: Laura Biancalani
 
 
 
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
break in the heavenly garden of the Opera Primiziale Pisana
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 
Pisa, 10. Juli 2012, ABFoundation, photo copyright www.bocelli.de
 
 
 
My Foundation, a seed to improve ourselves and the world
On July 6th and 10th 2012 in Pisa , the Italian city known worldwide for its leaning tower, the famous tenor Andrea Bocelli will present the first projects and ambitions of his ABFoundation with workshop on "Project Blind" and "Poverty Reduction”.
 "Whenever a man does good to one of his fellow man, wonderfully and simply he throws a small seed, which is important to uplift the level of humanity of the whole world."
With these words Master Andrea Bocelli will present the Foundation that bears his name in Italy . The guidelines, the ambitions and the first results of the newly formed Andrea Bocelli Foundation will be exposed personally by the famous tenor and by other prominent personalities of excellence belonging to scientific and economic contexts on the upcoming Friday, July 6th and Tuesday, July 10th at the Auditorium G. Toniolo in Pisa .
The mission of The ABF is to offer help to people in difficult conditions and in situations of distress due to illness, disability, poverty and social exclusion, by promoting and supporting national and international projects, that can encourage the overcoming of the barriers imposed by their disabilities and empowering full self expression.
The ABFoundation has been inaugurated last December 9th, in Los Angeles during a benefit concert involving big celebrities such as Michael Boltom, Julie Benz and Jo Champa. In occasion of the two-days workshops in Pisa , The ABF will announce the first tangible results of his activity, and above all, the board will be opened to live public discussions.
Due to space limitation and considering the high level of interest, applicants must register at the website www.andreabocellifoundation.org
The event, during which scientists, technicians, Italian and foreign operators will be invited to share their ideas on the stage, relies on the prestigious membership of MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Boston, of the University of Florence, the University of Pisa and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
Currently, the activity of ABF works into two program areas: the program CHALLENGES places great emphasis in scientific research, technology and social innovation, and seeks to encompass indeed, important challenges in terms of investments to be made and results to be achieved, empowering anyone with economic or social difficulties to come to realize full self-expression. The program BREAK THE BARRIER aims to support and promote projects particularly directed to weaker strata of the population in Italy and in Developing Countries, where poverty, disease, malnutrition and complex social situations invalidate or reduce expectations of life. The Foundation advocates interventions to promote health, education, social integration and wherever possible, it will endeavor to measure the impact of intervention in order to constantly improve it.
The workshop on the program CHALLENGES (July 6th, from 9:00 to 17:00) will present the first results of the research that ABF is conducting in partnership with MIT. The Foundation, with a group of young scientists, is working on the MIT Fifth Sense Project, which Master Bocelli himself intended to boost and promote. This project has the ambitious goal of providing an innovative tool for blind people, with the purpose to break down the barriers created by the lacking of visual perception, that limit orientation to move freely in the surrounding space.
The second workshop will be focused instead on the program BREAK THE BARRIERS (July 10th, from 17:00 to 20:00) and it supports projects that seek poverty alleviation in Italy and in Developing Countries. Admiring the beautiful landscape of the tower of Pisa , the day will end with a brief piano concert by Giuseppe Santucci. This musical moment will close the workshops and will officially open the two-days dedicated to the Theater of Silence, which will be held in Lajatico ( Pisa ), on July 11th and 12th.
Andrea Bocelli Foundation

Via Volterrana 49, 56030 Lajatico (PI) tel. (+39) 338.2581581 info@andreabocellifoundation.org
Laura Biancalani
President
lb@andreabocellifoundation.org
Veronica Berti
Vice-President
vb@andreabocellifoundation.org
Alberto Bocelli
Member of the board
ab@andreabocellifoundation.org
 
 
 
 
 

 

 Follow this link to find all of Andrea's recent messages to his fans  
(English translations and Italian Originals)

 
For those lucky ones who will soon vacation in this area: 
You get the wine with the beautiful label 
 in La Sterza, Via Volterrana-Sterza 41, Tuscany, near Volterra, Italy
contact: info@aziendabocelli.com
 
now also online: http://www.albertobocelli.com/bocellivini.html
At this point I precautionary would like to mention, that I provide the information above only for the reason that I know, that this might be interesting for a lot of Bocelli fans. who'd love to have such a bottle for a memory. I don't have any advantage whatsover from this. 
Terre di Sandro 2002, thanks to Jack!

Andrea Bocelli Official Merchandise

top