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Genre:
Classical
Release Date: 11/07/2006
Billed as the first
pop concert performance in
Andrea Bocelli's career, the show anthologized on
Under the Desert Sky was taped at the Lake Las Vegas Resort and featured an elaborate stage production from
David Foster and
Humberto Gatica, the pair who made a crossover hit out of
Bocelli's 2006 album
Amore. It's packaged as a CD/DVD combo, with a peculiar emphasis on the DVD side, since it includes more than twice as many songs as the CD. The audio portion has only five songs from the concert, plus four studio duets that are leftovers from the
Amore sessions (one is actually an edited version of a song that
did appear,
Stevie Wonder's
"Canzoni Stonate"). The highlight of the duets is unquestionably
"The Prayer," which
Foster wrote with
Carole Bayer Sager for the movie
Quest for Camelot.
Bocelli's vocal partner,
Heather Headley, proves a great match and their harmonies reach a peak that's barely equaled even on the
Amore album (she is a Tony winner, after all). The DVD portion includes 18 performances from the concert
Under the Desert Sky, plus interviews with
Bocelli,
Foster, and
Gatica on the making of
Amore, a photo gallery, and a featurette on Lake Las Vegas.
~John Bush, All Music Guide
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