Passione is a lush collection of Mediterranean love songs featuring duets with Jennifer Lopez and Nelly Furtado. Bocelli is an international superstar with a myriad of breathtaking career achievements to his name. Here, Bocelli reunites with 16-time GRAMMY Award-winner David Foster. Foster produced his 2006 collection of romantic songs, Amore, which sold over 2.5 million copies and debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. Passione is essentially the second volume. It features several beloved classics including “Love Me Tender,” “Quizas, Quizas, Quizas,” “Il Nostro Incontro,” “Corcovado (Medley)” and more. It is a repertoire of endless beauty that collects some of the most intense songs of all time.

Andrea Bocelli earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 1999 with the release of Sogno, despite it being his fifth album. With worldwide sales exceeding 10 million copies this remains one of Bocelli’s most successful commercial releases. Includes the Academy Award nominated song The Prayer, a duet with Celine Dion from the movie soundtrack Quest For Camelot.

Romanza is Andrea Bocelli’s biggest seller and the best-selling Italian album in music history, with worldwide sales exceeding 20 million copies. A repackaging of his first two albums from 1994 and 1995, Romanza marked Bocelli’s North American debut, launching his worldwide success and becoming his only US number one.

Andrea Bocelli’s Romanza is the bestselling classical crossover album of all time, having sold well over 17 million copies globally. To mark 20 years since the album’s original release, and the success of ‘Con Te Partiro’ and ‘Time To Say Goodbye’ a 20th Anniversary Edition was released in November 2016. The original album has been remastered and now include bonus tracks.

Thematic albums tend to be quite successful for vocal artists, especially for Andrea Bocelli, whose large discography is dominated by such attention-getting collections. For Cinema, his 2015 release on Decca, Bocelli performs passionate songs that have become famous through the films that featured them. Three of the songs first became popular in musicals, so Maria from West Side Story, The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera, and No llores por mi, Argentina from Evita have been included because of their later film versions. The program includes many popular movie melodies, such as Lara’s Theme from Dr. Zhivago, Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Be My Love from The Toast of New Orleans, Mi Mancherai from Il Postino/The Postman, and other well-known songs that receive the Italian tenor’s smooth treatment in lush arrangements. The inclusion of duets with rising singers is another feature of best-selling vocal albums, and true to form, Bocelli shares the limelight with Veronica Berti in Cheek to Cheek from Top Hat, Ariana Grande in E più ti penso from Once Upon a Time in America, and Nicole Scherzinger in No llores por mi, Argentina. This is Bocelli’s 15th studio album, his first in two years, so his fans will embrace it enthusiastically.

Part of PBS’ long-running Great Performances program, Concerto: One Night in Central Park features legendary Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s 2011 free concert on Central Park’s Great Lawn. With Bocelli backed by the New York Philharmonic conducted by longtime musical director Alan Gilbert, the 17-track collection is also being made available in a deluxe edition that includes a DVD of the evening. – James Christopher Monger

Andrea Bocelli’s collection of love songs, one of his highest-charting and best-selling albums, debuted at number three and sold more than a million-and-a-half copies in the US. Released in conjunction with Valentine’s Day 2006, Amore features a duet with Christina Aguilera on Somos Novios (It’s Impossible), Stevie Wonder on harmonica and vocals on Canzoni Stonate and an appearance from Kenny G on sax. The album includes Because We Believe, the song Bocelli performed at the closing ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.