

He received a Golden Globe for his duet with Pop Singer Celine Dion in the animated film The Quest for Camelot.

He began playing the piano at the age of six. He grew up on a farm where he sold farm equipment and made wine. Operatic tenor who went blind at the age of 12 and won the Sanremo Music Festival for Newcomers in 1994. Operatic pop, classical crossover, Latin pop, traditional pop His first compilation album, Romanza, is one of the best-selling albums of all time, while Sacred Arias is the best-selling classic album by any solo artist in history. He was successful as a cross performer, bringing classical music to the top of the international pop charts. Since 1982, Bocelli has recorded 15 solo studio albums of pop and classical music, the three most successful albums and nine complete operas, selling over 75 million records worldwide. It rose to prominence in 1994, winning the preliminaries of the 44th Sanremo Music Festival with a performance of "Miserere", with the highest score ever recorded in the newcomers section. After playing evenings at piano bars and participating in local singing competitions, Bocelli signed his first recording contract with Sugar Music. He was diagnosed with congenital glaucoma at the age of 5 months and completely blind at the age of 12, after a soccer accident. He has also performed in concert for the Learning and Participation department of the Royal Opera House.Andrea Bocelli is an Italian soprano and multi-instrumentalist.

Macnair’s concert repertory includes Bach’s Magnificat, Messiah, The Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, Elijah, Verdi’s Requiem, Bruckner’s Te Deum and L’Enfance du Christ. Pinafore) for Opera Options, Dr Blind ( Die Fledermaus) for Tête à Tête Opera and Raguel’s Man ( Tobias and the Angel, world premiere). Operatic engagements away from The Royal Opera include Fenton ( Falstaff) for New Sussex Opera, Bob Boles ( Peter Grimes) for Surrey Opera, Don Basilio and Don Curzio ( Le nozze di Figaro) for London Opera Players, Ralph Rackstraw ( H.M.S. He went on to sing as a Gentleman of Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, and with the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company. Macnair completed a doctorate in nuclear physics at the University of Kent before training as a singer at the Deller Academy of Early Music and The Knack, English National Opera Baylis. He is a founding member of the Royal Opera House’s vocal ensemble Hous8. His solo roles for The Royal Opera have included Parpignol ( Boheme), First Man in Armour ( Die Zauberflöte), Drunken Guest ( Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Notary ( Il barbiere di Siviglia), Echo ( The Tsarina’s Slippers) and Don Curzio ( Le nozze di Figaro). British tenor Andrew Macnair is a member of the Royal Opera Chorus, which he joined in 2006.
