UPDATE Andrea Bocelli performs at Phukets to welcome in 2022

UPDATE
Well, Andrea Bocelli appeared at Saphan Hin park in Phuket, most likely certainly one of his least memorable singing venues, last night time to herald in the new 12 months. After an hour of looking out via all the social media this morning I came across the Instagram account of President of the Phuket Tourist Association, Bhummikitti Ruktaengam.
Performing, it appears, with the accompaniment of a white grand piano and a local performer. We sit up for posting more photographs of the auspicious entertainment occasion.
This author has misplaced 500 baht to his Good Morning Thailand co-host Jay.
EARLIER STORY
A world famous Italian tenor and veteran performer, Andrea Bocelli, goes to sing at a free, public, usually raucous New Year’s Eve occasion, at Saphan Hin in Phuket. Tonight.
One of one of the best voices of our era goes to sing in front of an viewers who, largely and sadly, would have never heard of him. His son, Matteo, can be meant to be performing. They are a category act!
The complete sorry saga of the ‘Andrea Bocelli in Phuket for New Year’ saga started with an announcement by the TAT that, as a part of of its efforts to draw tourists again to Phuket, they'd invite Lisa from K-Pop band BlackPink and renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli. OK, two completely different demographics performing at what must be two totally different venues. One viewers would know little, if something about the other singer, and visa versa.
This writer happens to be a fan of both performers and genres.
Now Saphan Hin on new year is a massively well-liked evening of Thai revelry, ingesting, dancing, ingesting, fun, food and drinking. There’s a lot of drinking. There’s usually live Thai pop and nation bands performing. บริษัทติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์ชั้นนำ rattling nice conventional Thai piss up to welcome within the new yr.
To throw Andrea Bocelli into this mix seems, nicely, at odds (to say the least). And it’s free, apparently.
I’d like to inform you all in regards to the night… parking particulars, entry factors, performance occasions, help performances, and so forth, etc. Accept that I really don’t know a lot concerning the occasion. Information has been scant, negligible, properly hidden (I am attempting to be polite).
“Organised beneath the idea of ‘Amazing New Chapter @Phuket’, the countdown will function Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and lots of prime Thai artists,” stated Thapanee Kiatphaiboon, TAT’s deputy director for the domestic market. “There will also be the magnificent ‘Pearl of Andaman’ mild present featuring more than 20,000 fireworks that will be set off at midnight to welcome the New Year.”
Well, they’re type of dedicated aren’t they after getting a huge poster made and posing in front for the compulsory press shot.
Now, to be clear, the likes of Andrea Bocelli don’t normally do a couple of well-known ditties to a backing track in a public park. He’s not the type to reel off “Run to you” and “Living on a prayer” as a heat as a lot as an Italian aria.
Usually Bocelli would perform in a stadium, or an area, or a grand theatre or an opera home, with wonderful acoustics and an audience dressed for such an event. And there’d often be a full orchestra, pomp, aptitude and professional stage and lighting.
I just don’t see any of this transpiring at Saphan Hin Park in Phuket Town, most likely higher identified within the information for drug deals and the occasional crime. Not Italian tenors. Unless he brought his personal sound system and audio team he may also be surprised by the standard of Thai concert audio – either too loud, too soft, distorted or ‘mai dai’! Hope at least they find a respectable, in-tune, piano for Mr Bocelli.
Maybe in Sanam Luang, in front of a well-lit Grand Palace in Bangkok, with an orchestra, lined stage, professional sound and lighting and cozy seating and a 6 month lead time. But that’s not the plan…
The matter was additional muddied today by announcements about Andrea’s 50 minute performance for brand spanking new yr on Maltese TV (Andrea lives in Italy). As it occurs, that performance, which shall be aired tonight, was recorded last month.
“This New Year’s Eve goes to be special for lots of reasons, one of which is the fact that Andrea Bocelli will function on TVM for a small live performance shot proper here in Malta.
The world-renowned tenor will carry out a 50 minute production together with an ensemble, singing eight songs across two iconic places throughout the island – Fort St Elmo and St John’s Co-Cathedral.” Read extra HERE.
That a few hi-sos in the TAT and the Ministry of Sports and Tourism may have happened to love Andrea Bocelli and K-Pop starlet Lisa (who was born in Thailand), isn’t a good reason to announce a ‘confirmed’ occasion about 8 weeks out from the performance date. As we later came upon neither performers had been approached, or their administration, before the two performers were announced as attending new yr events in Thailand.
Lisa’s South Korean administration quickly sent out a statement that Lisa would not be attending the New Year event. The Andrea Bocelli thriller has never fairly been answered. His Phuket dates have by no means appeared on his comprehensive website, which incorporates dates for all his performances.
As of 5.45pm on New Year’s eve this writer is none-the-wiser a few time, precise location (Saphan Hin is a big public park), gown code, entry procedures, and so forth. Except all attendees to new 12 months revelries in Saphan Hin tonight have been told they must be vaccinated in opposition to Covid, AND both have a current, doctor-approved ATK take a look at with them, or have a nasal swab test on entry (“…welcome to the Andrea Bocelli concert mam, please put your head back and relax”).
If the main points have been posted somewhere, they’ve been well hidden.
So we hope that the people that do attend this night could have a wonderful night time with one of the biggest singers of our time. I will be placing on a recent concert with Andrea Bocelli, Matteo Bocelli and Francesca Battistelli performing 9 days in the past, “The Heart of Christmas” on my large display TV. In the consolation of my couch, with out getting a swab check.
Just looking out the window, I hope it doesn’t rain as properly..