It seemed like only three hours when Italian soprano Andrea Bocelli kissed the Riviera Maya skies. With a dreamlike image, the sea was part of a landscape that evoked hedonism, reflection, and a visual shock that combined the Yucatan Symphony Orchestra’s amazing performance of music and the sound of the waves with the stage screen’s graphics.

A painting that any painter would want to capture for its beauty, something beautiful that only a poet could imagine and narrate.

Hallelujah – Andrea Bocelli & Virginia Bocelli (Live/En Vivo en la Riviera Maya México, 26/02/2022)

There is no doubt that it was the most important concert in recent years in a paradise-like place such as the Riviera Maya, which made the audience leave more than satisfied after a careful repertoire of hits in which two aspects were mixed, an operatic scene and more current songs, separated by an intermission.

And as Bocelli knows better than anyone that life is a privilege that must be honored, he did it as always: singing like never before, surpassing himself, making everyone feel more alive. Eugene Kohn (the same one who conducted Plácido Domingo’s concert in Chichén Itzá) was the best of his accomplices.

Not to mention the special performances such as those of the very Mexican Susana Zabaleta who proudly and dignifiedly performed “Contigo en la Distancia” and “Vivo por ella” alongside Bocelli, or the participation of her daughter Virginia with “Hallelujah” and even “Perfect Symphony” by Ed Sheeran, performed alongside her son Matteo Bocelli, who took advantage of his visit to Mexico as part of tonight’s cast to present his first single in Spanish “Dime”, written with the Italian musician Alessandro Mahmoud