andrea bocelli performs~

Last night was the 1st night of Andrea Bocelli's sold-out concerts with the NY Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. I knew tickets were going to be hard to get, so I grabbed them early {and paid a little bit more than I wanted} and...wow, it was worth it! His soothing + compassionate voice is at times the complimenting factor and at other times the strong accent of the full orchestra. The program included many 1 movement shorts - and so we got a variety of opera arias, 4 renditions of Ave Maria and more...we even got 2 encore pieces where 1 of them was the classic La Traviata aria. The until-then-subdued Carnegie Hall crowd got all "rowdy"....:) The concert was amazing~