Andrea Bocelli, Duomo di Milano At Easter I will sing in the Milan Cathedral, it will be a hymn to life Coronavirus
The tenor protagonist of the concert that will be streamed worldwide on YouTube on Sunday: Empty church and interconnected crowd
Like Verdi’s music, Milan excites, moves, educates, always triggers energies that potentially make it better. I have great affection and I have an ancient debt of gratitude for this city. Spontaneously I have to associate it with that absolute genius who was certainly not Milanese, but who chose Milan as the main scenario of his long life.
So Italian, so international, even Milan – like Verdi’s works – is equally shrewd and poetic: a place that with genuine lyricism and poignant disenchantment can tell the beauty and welcome human contradictions. And with great humanity, precisely, he knows how to express a concept that was particularly dear to the supreme composer: to revolutionize the present by looking at the ancient, thus training himself to prefigure the future.
Milan is a constant in my life, from the one imagined as a boy, between the pages of Manzoni, to the yearning when I was a young artist looking for listening, to that (constantly generous, over the years) of his concert audience: from the distant one of a recital for the “musical afternoons” to the larger one, the protagonist of an enveloping embrace, a dozen years ago, in Piazza Duomo in front of eighty thousand Milanese. And again, I think of the concert in favor of the children of Haiti.
in 2010, then the one that inaugurated the Expo in 2015, together with the orchestra and choir of La Scala Just on that occasion, I got to know person Giuseppe Sala, with whom my wife and I have made a good relationship of friendship and mutual esteem (who expressed, among other things, virtuous moments of contact also in relation to beneficial initiatives, linked to the foundation that bears my name ).
When the mayor called me on the phone, one morning not many days ago – how many, I wouldn’t know: quarantine makes you lose the size of time! – inviting me to sing in the Cathedral for Easter, I replied “present” without hesitation. Indeed I take this opportunity to thank him, as well as I sincerely thank all those – in Italy and in the world – who in this complex period have proved particularly sensitive and generous, supporting the many fundraising campaigns, including one, active still today, created by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation, in favor of the COVID Hospital in Camerino and to support additional hospitals and departments dedicated to the care of COVID-19.
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