Sacred Arias (), is the sixth studio album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
Released in 1999, the album, featuring music composed in traditional Christian styles, is not only Bocelli's most commercially successful classical album to date with over 5 million copies sold,"Crossover superstar Andrea Bocelli finds beauty in wide range of music", The Columbus Dispatch, November 27, 2011. but also the biggest selling classical album by any solo artist in history.Andrea Bocelli Biography Bocelli was accompanied by the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Myung-whun Chung."Andrea Bocelli: Sacred Arias, Presto Music
Track listing Vavilov (misattributed to Caccini): "Ave Maria" Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana – "Sancta Maria" Gounod: "Ave Maria" Schubert: Ellens Gesang, Op. 52/6, D 839 – "Ave Maria" Franck: "Panis angelicus" Rossini: Stabat Mater – "Cujus animam" Verdi: Requiem – "Ingemisco" Mozart: "Ave verum corpus", K. 618 Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91/1 – "Der Engel" Handel: Serse, HWV 40 – "Frondi tenere ... Ombra mai fu" Niedermeyer: "Pietà, Signore" Rossini: Petite messe solennelle – "Domine Deus" Schubert: "Wiegenlied", Op. 98/2, D 498 – "Mille cherubini in coro" Gruber: "Silent Night" Wade: "Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful)" : "Gloria a te, Cristo Gesù" Georges Bizet: "Agnus Dei" (Bonus) Eric Lévi: "I Believe" (Bonus)
Charts
Chart performance ChartPeakpositionSacred Arias chart performance[ Sacred Arias on the Billboard charts]Australian Albums7Austrian Albums2Belgian Albums (Flanders)9Belgian Albums (Wallonia)10Canadian Albums6Canadian Classical Albums1Danish Albums Chart8Finnish Albums8French Albums5German Albums3Hungarian Albums5Italian Albums1Netherlands Albums1New Zealand Albums3Norwegian Albums2Swedish Albums15Swiss Albums2UK Albums20US Billboard 20022US Classical Albums1
Certifications and sales
Awards In 2000, the album led Bocelli to receive an ECHO Klassik for "Bestseller of the year", as well as a 2000 Classical BRIT Award for "Album of the Year", and a Goldene Europa for classical music, in 2000.
PBS special A DVD of the concert, filmed in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, was also released in 1999. The concert aired on the PBS program Great Performances. This broadcast was nominated in 2000 for an Emmy Award – Outstanding Classical Music-Dance Program."Sacred Arias (Great Performances) – Nomination, Emmy Awards Sacred Arias Special Edition, a two disc set with CD and DVD was released in 2003.
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