Invited to the Faenol Festival in Wales by Bryan Terfel.

Andrea performs at the “Live 8” concert in Paris.

Concerts at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opernhaus Zürich, Sala Nervi at the Vatican (in front of Pope Benedict XVI).

Accustomed to leaping over apparently insurmountable obstacles, the Tuscan tenor extended his repertoire (not disdaining an occasional carefully measured venture into melodic cross-over territory). Bocelli sang Werther which was released onto the market in spring. The following year his repertoire of operatic recordings was enriched by two great landmarks of realism: Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Marcagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana, both directed by Steven Mercurio. His more recent projects include the demanding role of Andrea Chénier by Giordano and finally the most audacious and bewitching love story of all time, Bizet’s Carmen, directed by Myung Whun Chung. For his concerts Bocelli conquered the most lauded strongholds of the classical music world such as the Wiener Staatsoper. In 2008, while his new album Incanto was a sell-out success, Andrea performed in Carmen at the Rome Opera, followed by Puccini’s Messa di Gloria in Padova, and then La Petite Messe Solennelle in the United States, directed by Placido Domingo. He appeared as Turiddu in the Cavalleria Rusticana on the prestigious stage of the Deutsche Opera in Berlin and then flew to South America where he performed to an audience of more than 110,000 in San Paolo, Brazil.

Andrea takes part in the Concert for the Nobel Prize award ceremony and at the great parade in New York for Thanksgiving Day.

Tosca at the Puccini Festival of Torre del Lago, producer Gaetano Miglioranzi (Beni Monstresor, director Steven Mercurio and soprano Francesca Patané)

He is also in Rome at the Circo Massimo among the protagonists of the concert/event “We are the future”.

The total number of records sold throughout the world since the beginning of his career exceeds 50 million.

“Il Trovatore” wins the ‘Editor’s Choice’ prize awarded by the prestigious international classical music magazine ‘Gramophone’.

In December he receives the prize as “Best of the World” at the American Music Awards and receives the World Music Award for “Best Classic Interpretation”.

In August another huge crowd with a triumphal concert held under the Pyramids.

In May he is awarded two Classical Brit Awards for the album “Sentimento” in the categories of Best Selling Classical Album and Album of the Year, in the marvellous setting of the Royal Albert Hall of London.

Towards the end of the year, he experiences something that will remain extremely dear to him; in December 2003 and in a career that include performances for Popes, Presidents, Prime Ministers, Princes, Kings and Queens, Andrea has the pleasure and honour of signing Ave Maria by Gounod at the wedding ceremony of his friend Luciano Pavarotti.

Andrea is awarded the National Music Award (U.K.) as “Best Classical Artist”.

Andrea receives two World Music Awards for “Best Italian Singer” and “Best Classical Performance” and the Classical Brits Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Music”.