“Zubin Meta wants me to be in his Rigoletto. Everywhere autotune. But he distorts his voice.

Andrea Bocelli, there is a lot of talk about autotune.

“Everyone does what they want.”

She?

“Obviously I never used it.”

But almost everyone uses it.

“For me, I think it distorts the voice. If there is an error in the interpretation, then it is very simple: the interpretation is redone. With those who work with me, I always joke: if you put me on autotune, I will get angry, huh.

The voice is an instrument to be learned.

“Pavarotti said that, as a young hopeful, one evening after the show, he entered the dressing room of the legendary Beniamino Gigli and asked him: “Maestro, how much did you study to get here?”.

Reply?

“I studied for up to five minutes before taking the stage tonight.”

Andrea Bocelli has just closed a new edition of the Teatro del Silencio at his Lajatico in the province of Pisa, which mixes unpublished performances and duets, Celebrity Adventures (which also featured actor Gerard Butler) and a charity auction to raise funds for the Andrea Bocelli Foundation’s projects in half the world between education-related initiatives and the 10 schools born from the efforts of this team. The auction sells one-of-a-kind collectibles, often so valuable that the event is unlike any other in the world. And the collected numbers are always very significant. “The state does not help us in this, because there are no tax deductions, as, for example, in the States,” explains his wife Veronica Berti, who, together with Laura Biancalani, is the soul and driving force of the Fund: “Nevertheless, the auditor paid us a compliment , asking to export our model to other funds. In the meantime, Andrea Bocelli, among dozens of concerts abroad, has just released Verdi’s Otello recorded at Carlo Felice in Genoa on Apple, as well as Verdi’s The Force of Destiny and Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. “Do you want me to tell you something new?”

Please.

“The last time we met, Zubin Meta asked me to do Rigoletto with him.

And she?

“I have to think about it. It’s a big honor that I want to get to the best of my ability.”

Bocelli is always learning.

“With the music I make, you always have to learn, you can’t stop.”

At the Teatro del Silenzio, he performed a duet with Emma.

“Very sensitive girl. During the rehearsals, she was touched by listening to the aria from the opera Madama Butterfly.

And then came Gloria Gaynor, the pioneer of disco music.

“I was struck by her voice. He sings very well.”

And then she sang her classic “I’ll Survive Alone.”

“But besides her there were Giovanni Caccamo, soprano Sarah Cortolezzis, baritone Luca Micheletti and singer-songwriter Lauren Allred, a real discovery of The Voice America.”

Sometimes classical music becomes the scene of political disputes. Beatriz Venesi was accused of fascist sympathies for singing Inno a Roma to Puccini’s music.

Sterile controversy. The anthem was written by Puccini in 1918, that is, four years before Mussolini’s campaign against Rome. And then, a century later, many people sang it, even Beniamino Gigli.”

His son Matteo’s first solo album will be released in September.

– I’m at the window.

The first single Chasing stars was written by Ed Sheeran.

“I see what’s going on.”

In short, he keeps his distance.

“We have always wanted to raise free children who can make informed decisions. Then it is clear: if you need advice, I will be there. But the project is his, and I want him to stay his.”