You don't have to be an opera fan to appreciate this beautifully written memoir by world-famous tenor Andrea Bocelli. Born among the vineyards of Tuscany, Bocelli was still an infant when he developed glaucoma. Music filtering into his room soothed the unsettled child. By the age of twelve he was completely blind, but his passion for music brought light back into his life. 
Here Bocelli reveals the anguish of his blindness and the transcendent experience of singing. He writes about his loving parents, who nurtured his musical interests, the challenges of learning to read music in Braille and of competing in talent shows, his struggles with law school, and his desire to turn an avocation into a way of life. He describes falling in love and singing in piano bars until his big break in 1992, when a stunned Pavarotti heard him sing "Miserere." The international acclaim and success that have followed Bocelli ever since have done nothing to dull his sense of gratitude and wonder about the world. No classical music fan can afford to be without this engaging and humble memoir of a fascinating and triumphant star.

The Music of Silence: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Bocelli, Andrea

Arts & Literature

It Books

The acclaimed singer offers an intimate, unflinching memoir of his remarkable life and career, describing the defective eyesight that left him blind at the age of twelve and his rise to the heights of success in the world of international music. 40,000 first printing.

A novel of flight set at the end of World War II follows a German-Jewish family on their painful exodus to America from a shattered European continent. By the author of In the Name of Mercy. 25,000 first printing.

What Remains

Literature & Fiction

Delbanco,Nicholas

United States

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

20 great songs for tenor voice and piano from the best-selling album. Songs include: Ave Maria, Che Gelida Manina from La Bohème, and Di Quella Pira from Il Trovatore.

The Best of Andrea Bocelli

Humor & Entertainment

Music Sales America

Features. Format - Sheet. Instrument - PianoVocalChords. Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman

Time to Say Goodbye: (Con Te Partiro) (Original Sheet Music Edition)

Arts & Photography

Brightman, Sarah

Music

Alfred Music

The Prayer: Piano/Vocal/Chords, Sheet (Original Sheet Music Edition) (Italian and English Edition)

Dion, Céline

Sogno

Warner Bros Pubns

Here is the album-matching folio to Andrea Bocelli's Sentimento, a collection of romantic arias and duets with violinist-conductor Lorin Maazel. This folio contains eight pages of color art, and includes all the lyrics. Titles are: Mattinata (Leoncavallo) - La Serenata (Tosti/Cimmino) - L'ultima canzone (Tosti/Cimmino) - Malia (Tosti/Pagliara) - La danza (Rossini/Pepoli) - Ideale (Tosti/Errico) - Sogno (Tosti/Stecchetti) - Plaisir d'amour (Martini/Florian) - Musica proibita (Gastaldon/Flick-Flock) - Occhi di fata (Denza/Tremacoldo) - 'Avucchella (Tosti/D'Annunzio) - Vorrei morire! (Tosti/Cognetti) - Vaghissima sembianza (Donaudy)

Andrea Bocelli Sentimento

Warner Brothers

The acclaimed singer offers a memoir of his life and career in the form of a novel, describing the defective eyesight that left him blind at the age of twelve and his rise to the heights of success in the world of international music.

Thorndike Pr

(Amadeus). Few singers have touched as many hearts as has Andrea Bocelli. This golden-voiced tenor has sung to sold-out audiences all over the world, and his legions of admirers have included popes, presidents, and monarchs as well as some of the greatest stars of classical and popular music. In The Music of Silence , Bocelli tells his own story in the form of an autobiographical novel, naming his alter ego "Amos Bardi." He writes of a loving family that encouraged his musical gifts from an early age, and of the dedication that led to his professional breakthrough and his meteoric rise to stardom. The first edition of Bocelli's memoir was published in 1999 and focused on the success and difficulties at the beginnings of his astonishing career. This newly revised and updated edition is an even deeper and more intimate analysis of his life, loves, and losses the result of wisdom gained from the increased personal and artistic maturity gained in the subsequent decade of his life. This book will touch and captivate all Bocelli fans and those who admire perseverance in the face of great challenges.

The Music of Silence: New Edition (Amadeus)

Amadeus

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The Music of Silence: A Memoir

The Music of Silence: A Memoir

What Remains

The Best of Andrea Bocelli

Time to Say Goodbye: (Con Te Partiro) (Original Sheet Music Edition)

The Prayer: Piano/Vocal/Chords, Sheet (Original Sheet Music Edition) (Italian and English Edition)

Sogno

Andrea Bocelli Sentimento

The Music of Silence: A Memoir

The Music of Silence: New Edition (Amadeus)