Posted on 04/15/2020 4:25:45 AM PDT by C19fan
Andrea Bocelli's mesmerising Music For Hope live concert from the deserted Duomo di Milano has broken world records. The opera singer's Easter Sunday's performance has become the biggest live-streamed classical music event of all time, with a combined 35 million people viewing the 30-minute concert. The historic event reached over 2.8 million peak concurrent viewers, making it one of the biggest musical live stream performances of all-time and the largest simultaneous audience for a classical live stream in YouTube history.
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>> The historic event reached over 2.8 million peak concurrent viewers
Not 10% of the “views”
Is he someone I should know?
Yesterday I was listening to Rush and there was a commercial played (for IHeart Radio, I think) about a concert to raise money for, of all things, the World Health Organization. Did anyone else hear about this?
Blind Italian guy with a nice voice. It's getting a bit brittle at his age, but it's still pretty good. Cinema Paradiso - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUSBLeSu-O4
———Yesterday I was listening to Rush and there was a commercial played (for IHeart Radio, I think) about a concert to raise money for, of all things, the World Health Organization. Did anyone else hear about this?———
I believe I heard it over and over listening on Iheart/WJNO
A very good voice. He was blinded as the result of a freak soccer accident.
He’s done some great duets (esp. with Sarah Brightman).
He’s one of the best. Loved his ‘Lords Prayer’ rendition. He also does some nice Christmas concerts, a lot of them are on YouTube.
At-Home GalaMore info including a complete list of the participating artists at https://www.metopera.org/season/at-home-gala/Saturday, April 25
In its most ambitious effort yet to bring the joy and artistry of opera to audiences everywhere during the Met’s closure, the company will present an unprecedented virtual At-Home Gala, featuring more than 40 leading artists performing in a live stream from their homes all around the world. The event, Saturday, April 25, at 1 p.m. EDT, will be hosted by General Manager Peter Gelb in New York City and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Montreal, and will be available for free on the Met’s website. After the live showing, the gala will continue to be accessible on demand on the Met website until 6:30pm EDT the following day.
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Famous opera singer who happens to be blind. Women love him.
His video is the #1 steaming video on youtube.
I would highly recommend it. It is well worth 25 minutes of your time. Especially the last song “Ava Maria”
I sent the youtube link to all my contacts yesterday.
One of my friends out west who is a 50 something year old woman replied back that she loves him, “that she saw him in Vegas 12 years ago”
I replied back: “ Awesome, did he SEE you too?”
She replied back” You’re going to H#LL”
“He was blinded as the result of a freak soccer accident.”
Might have been a “header”. He was 12 years old. Its probably a good idea not to have your young youngsters do that. Don’t know just when the teeny-boppers skulls reach maximum hardness, but 12 might be marginal.
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