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TAPE: EF02/0937 IN_TIME: 14:35:46 / 21:15:44 DURATION: 4:35 SOURCES: APTN/Philips RESTRICTIONS: music/performance rights must be cleared DATELINE: London 11/10/02 SHOTLIST Philips VNR 1. VS Ext - 2. VS Set Up Live performance Bocelli & Maazel. 3. Performance 'En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor' Andrea Bocelli & Laorin Maazel APTN 4. SOT Bocelli - "This is a collection of old songs, of Arias that describe love. I am particularly fond of them because they also belong to my childhood. They are also Arias that have also been unjustifiably forgotten. Thirdly these are Arias that have been loved more abroad than in my own country." Philips VNR 5. Performance: 'La Serenada' Bocelli & Maazel APTN 6. SOT Bocelli - "In addition to this there was the fact that there was Lorin Maazel Stradivarius that is a very rare Stradivarius with an extremely fine and sonorous quality which is an absolute privilege to be able to hear it close up in this way." Philips VNR 7. CLIP 'En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor' Bocelli APTN 8. SOT Bocelli - "It's like a very strange sort of competition that is engendered between the voice and violin, which starts out as a competition but ends up as a form of collaboration which makes music." Philips VNR 9. CLIP 'En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor ' Bocelli TENOR ANDREA BOCELLI RELEASES NEW ALBUM, 'SENTIMENTO' Since bursting onto the classical music world in 1994 with a debut album which went platinum within weeks, Italian tenor ANDREA BOCELLI's worldwide success has been phenomenal. He has scored number one singles and albums around the globe and has been proclaimed by many as a worthy heir to Enrico Caruso. Born in 1958, the blind Andrea grew up in a close knit farming community in Tuscany where he started to display rare musical gifts from an early age. He soon developed a love of opera and by his own admission felt destined to sing. After graduating from the University of Pisa as a Doctor of Law, Andrea spent a year acting as a court-appointed lawyer, before embarking on a make-or-break attempt at singing. He approached the legendary tenor, Franco Corelli, famous for working with some of the greatest voices in the world, who readily agreed to take Andrea as his pupil. To pay the fees Andrea performed at night in piano bars and clubs, and at one of these venues he met Enrica, his future wife. The couple have now been married for eight years, with two sons, Amos and Matteo. His eponymous 1997 album, 'Bocelli', was awarded Platinum status is all territories of releases, but it was 'Romanza', produced later that year, which took him to even greater heights of success, going multi-platinum in virtually all territories of release. Since then he has turned into one of the world's most prodigious and successful recording artists, producing best-selling albums at a rate of approximately one per year. His latest album, 'Sentimento', is a collaboration with virtuoso conductor and violinist, Lorin Maazel. The original idea behind 'Sentimento' was to revive a fashion for performing violin/voice duets, a style of performance which was so popular in years gone by with artists like Caruso. When Bocelli and Maazel had finalised the list of titles for the album they realised that all the songs had similar things in common: feelings of tenderness, passion, melancholy, yearning and above all, Love, hence the title 'Sentimento'. 'Sentimento' will be released on 4 November, 2002.