Andrea Bocelli on the Via Francigena

[MichaelC]

Hot off the presses! I've been seeing articles in the Italian papers like this one in intoscana: A cavallo sulla via Francigena con Andrea Bocelli: una noava docu-serie su Paramount+ (On horseback along the Via Francigena with Andrea Bocelli, a new series on Paramount+). According to the article, he and his wife take a "viaggio slow" from Rome to the village where he was born, Lajatico, near Pisa.

It opens in theaters in the US in April as The Journey, A Musical Special from Andrea Bocelli.

Interestingly, the American press release doesn't even mention the Via in their opening paragraph:

"Combining world-class musical performances with intimate conversations across the awe-inspiring Italian countryside, THE JOURNEY: A Music Special from Andrea Bocelli is an exploration of the moments that define us, the songs that inspire us, and the relationships that connect us to what matters most."

 

[witsendwv]

Thank you. I have wanted to go to a concert, but the tickets here in the US are prohibitively expensive. We will be traveling the weekend of the show and will be near a theater that will be showing this. Looking forward to seeing this. Thanks again for the info.

 

[Bob from L.A. !]

The Youtube video is really good

 

[MichaelC]

The Youtube video is really good

Agreed - it's beautiful. But the official website just replaced the good video with a mediocre trailer! Here's the good one:

 

[MichaelC]

Update: I walked out after twenty minutes. This was a a christian-music video with lots of drone shots of the Tuscan landscape. The dialogue was insipid and the music mediocre. It had nothing to do with pilgrimages.

 

[Bradypus]

Another Fathom Events screening of "Santiago: The Camino Within" recently drew a lot of flak too. It sounds as though their target audience might not really be Camino/VF fossils like us!

 

[MichaelC]

I'm particularly irritated that this was a "cinematic experience" and not a "movie" - so tickets were $20 each.