Sacred Arias: The Home Video

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Andrea Bocelli: The Home Video
Sacred Arias DVD.jpg
Starring Andrea Bocelli
Distributed by Pilips
Release date
  • 20 June 2000 (2000-06-20)
Running time
177 minutes
Country Italy
LanguagesEnglish, Italian

Sacred Arias: The Home Video is the second DVD released by Italian tenor, Andrea Bocelli.

It was filmed in the Roman church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, in Rome, in 1999, where he gave a concert conducted by Myung-whun Chung, singing the arias of his previous album, Sacred Arias .

The PBS Great Performances program was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program during the 2000 Emmy awards. [1] The DVD was certified Gold in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America. [2]

Sacred Arias: Special Edition, a CD/DVD package, was released on 4 October 2003, containing both the album and the DVD as a bonus.

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References

  1. Andrea Bocelli awards and nominations, imdb.com.
  2. "American video certifications – Andrea Bocelli – Sacred Arias". Recording Industry Association of America.