Bocelli!? No Way!
I ended my travels in Italy in Venice. The city itself was indeed smelly and dirty and overcrowded as everyone will tell you, but it did have its charms as well. My time in Venice ended up being the most lucky coincidence because I was walking around at dusk and tried to walk through the many archways into San Marco Piazza but they were all blocked by policemen! I would walk through an alley, over another bridge and again, there was another policeman blocking the entrance. I had no idea what was going on. I eventually came to the part of the piazza right by San Marco’s Basilica and I could make it into the square but most of it was blocked off for some kind of concert. I looked around to see if I could find out who was performing and then I saw a sign saying “Bocelli tickets.” I couldn’t believe it! And the concert started not half and hour after I got there. I got to hear Andrea Bocelli perform live in Venice’s San Marco Square. Since we had the free tickets (standing outside the dividers that blocked off the concert) we couldn’t really see anything. I could see Bocelli and the conductor just barely through a crack in the barracades. There was a full choir and orchestra and a lead soprano whose name I still cannot find. She had a fantastic voice though…probably the best I’ve heard in a live performance. At several points the clock tower in the square began chiming and everyone turned to look at it in disgust, like, “How dare you attempt to make the singers go out of tune!” Bocelli ended with a beautiful duet which must have been his signature song because my fellow listeners were ooohing and ahhing the whole time. After it ended, since we were already in a standing ovation-of-sorts, all we could do was clap all the louder and yell “Bravi!”
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