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iTunes Festival London 2012 (2012)
  
Opera (2012)

Release date
  
3 November 2012

Genre
  
Opera

Artist
  
Andrea Bocelli

Label
  
Decca Records

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Released
  
November 3, 2012 (2012-11-03) (UK and Ireland only)

Nominations
  
Classic Brit Award for Album of the Year

Similar
  
Opera ‑ The Ultimate, Aria: The Opera Album, Verdi, Sentimento, Passione

Opera is the first compilation album of opera arias by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. The album was released only in the United Kingdom and appeared on the album charts of the UK and Ireland.

Contents

Background

The album is a compilation of arias from Bocelli's previously recorded Classical albums.

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 10 on the UK Albums Chart, following Bocelli's performance of Nessun dorma on the Strictly Come Dancing results show the day before. With 14,577 copies sold, it became Bocelli's 16th Top 40 album and seventh Top 10 entry since his 1997 breakthrough, Romanza, while lifting his career sales to a 4,964,058 total in the United Kingdom.

Songs

1Verdi: Rigoletto / Act 3 - "La donna è mobile"Zubin Mehta - Israel Philharmonic Orchestra2:11
2Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1 - "Recitar!Vesti la giubba"Steven Mercurio - Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini - Catania3:59
3Giordano: Fedora / Act 2 - "Amor ti vieta"Gianandrea Noseda - Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino1:52

References

Opera (Andrea Bocelli album) Wikipedia