by Cami
My husband, daughter, and I attended the concert in
Worcester, and I have been mulling over what I could
contribute that hasn't been said already. Yes, there is no
doubt that Andrea's voice has grown...more elegant, more
confident, more beautiful. He definitely seemed in command
in a way I hadn't seen before. I keep wondering what he
has done since Detroit. Something there seemed to be
holding him back. But not this time!
I was bowled over by the ease with which he makes that
transition from opera-Andrea to (for lack of a better
term) pop-Andrea. It is almost as if he is two singers,
each stunningly beautiful in their own way. Just when you
think you can't be any more impressed with this voice, he
steps into another world and owns that one as well. I
thought I knew "Sogno," but when he began to sing it for
the first encore my jaw just dropped open it was
so...beautiful (someone please find me another word, I
keep repeating this one, but language is failing me). The
same for "The Prayer."
When he started to sing "The Merry Widow Waltz" I had the
binoculars up and was watching Ana Maria Martinez. You
wouldn't think you could surprise anyone with that
ever-so-familiar tune...but again I was stunned by the
beauty. Apparently so was Ana Maria, because I could swear
her eyes filled with tears as she watched him sing. I
really was afraid she was going to cry and be unable to
sing when her cue came.
Did anyone else at the Worcester concert notice him moving
his left foot backward as if he was searching for
something? I watched him do it several times. It would
make sense for him to be searching forward with his right
foot for the mark, which he does. But this was something I
hadn't noticed before. We decided afterward that he might
have been concerned about the strength in his voice being
too much for the microphone and was finding a good range
in relation to the mike.
This was our third concert and we saw Werther
twice...he is definitely on another level. I really
believe that if he wants it, he will be a legend in his
own time. What a thrill to have been there from almost the
beginning, and we aren't done yet!