By Jennifer Glickel
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER WEST SIDE — World-renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli will make his solo debut at the Metropolitan Opera House next February, the Met announced Monday.
The Italian opera singer is set to perform a program of arias by Handel, Beethoven, Fauré, Tosti, and Wagner at the Met on Feb. 13, 2011. Vincenzo Scalera will accompany him on piano.
Bocelli has sung on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Vienna State Opera, and the Washington National Opera amongst others.
He has performed with the world’s top orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Bocelli has released 14 studio albums, and his 1999 album “Sacred Arias” was the best selling classical album ever released by a solo artist.
Tickets for the tenor’s performance at the Met go on sale to the public on Sept. 12.
