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- "One
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invisible to the eyes." Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry
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- 1958
- 1991 1992
- 1994 1995 - 1997
1998 1999
2000
2001 2002
2003
2004 2005
2006 2007
2008 2009 2010
2011 2012 2013
2014 2015
2016 - 2018
2019 - 2021
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- 2000
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the 42 Grammy award on February 23 in Los Angeles he is nominated
twice: as "Best Male Pop Vocal Performance" (winner: Sting) and
as "Best
Pop Collaboration With Vocals" (winner: Santana)
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March 6 he is appointed President of the
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Musicale Boccherini in Lucca.
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31 the first part of his World Tour 2000
begins with
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concerts in the USA, ending April 12 in Houston.
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a series of extraordinary concerts (April 24, Munich with Maestro
Lorin Maazel; April 29, San Giovanni Rotondo with Maestro Carlo
Bernini in honor of the blessed Padre Pio; May 1, Rome on the
occasion of Labor Day in front of the Pope and over 400,000
spectators; and on May 5 in Paris beneath the Eiffel Tower with
Maestro Seiji Ozawa) he must bear the loss of one of the most
important persons in his life, his
father Sandro, who died on April 30.
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- In
May, British Classic FM listeners voted his Sacred Arias album of
the year and the German version of his book is released: "La
mia musica".
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May 12 to May 17 he continues his World Tour 2000 giving four
concerts in Japan and Korea under direction of Maestro Chung.
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In June his song Canto della terra is chosen by the British BBC
as the musical theme for the European football Championship,at the end of which he
participates in a spectacular concert with Valery Gergiev
and Renèe
Flemming on the river Maas in Rotterdam at July 1st.
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In the RAI Studios he comments
on the final between Italy -
France with honest enthusiasm. To his great disappointment (not only his)
Italy loses with 1:2
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On July 6 he gives a concert
at the Statue of Liberty in New York, in honor of all Italian
immigrants,
under the direction of Steven Mercurio, and thus fulfills an old
dream of
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On
August 17 he sings in front of almost 10000 spectators the tenor's
part in Verdi's Messa da Requiem under direction of Lorin Maazel
in the Arena di Verona |
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Just two days later at a little private
party he sings for the British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who spends his
holidays in Tuscany .
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August 29 he has another
audience with Pope John Paul II in occasion of a convention for organ
transplantation |
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In September
his seventh album "Verdi"
is released, and he presents it together with conductor Zubin
Mehta in Florence |
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September 14, the evening before the
opening of the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney, Australia in front of the
opera house he is in between Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
and Olivia Newton-John one of the last torchbearers
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- He takes the occasion to visit
the Italian athletes in the Olympic village
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During these days he gives three highly
acclaimed concerts in Sydney,
Perth and Melbourne
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In October the English version of his
book: "The music of silence" is released,
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he visits the
Shroud of Turin |
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and on the 18th of this
month he is invited to a reception on the occasion of the visit of the
British Queen to Italy.
At the annual NIAF (National Italian American
Foundation)
Gala of the Italian-Americans
in Washington in the presence of US President Clinton on the 28th, he sings
via satellite from Lucca, accompanied by the Youth Orchestra of the
Boccherini-Institute. At the same time he is presented the award of
Italian-American friendship .
In Germany he
receives the Echo Klassik 2000 "Bestseller des Jahres"
(Bestseller of the year) for Sacred
Arias.
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In November his
first complete opera recording, Puccini's La Bohème is released |
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In Germany in
December he receives the
Goldene Europa
for Classical Music
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Finally at the
end of the year he can take some time for his familiy |
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At the end of the year he has the top
three titles on the Top Classical Albums recap of the Billboard Music
Magazine: Sacred Arias, Verdi and Aria- the Opera Album
This is another
record for the Guiness Book of World Records.
He is No. 1 Classical Artist, No. 2 World Music Artist
Sogno is No.2 World Music Album
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