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• 180-gram double LP

  Gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeves

  This 1996 album compiles music from the beginning ofAndrea Bocelli’s career, with tracks going back as far as 1992. At this point the blind Italian tenor, although trained in opera, was unabashedly a pop singer, just like the many other pop singers who have benefited from classical vocal training at one time or another.

  There is no controversy about whetherBocelliwas a competent opera singer here, for there are no operatic arias, and not even any of the Neapolitan songs that he later essayed in American appearances all the music is contemporary, heavily string-enveloped (mostly) Italian pop.

  It was only later thatBocellibegan to move into operatic territory a decision that brought down the wrath of