Tony Bennett, Céline Dion, et al. to Join Andrea Bocelli for Central Park Concert

Céline Dion, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti and David Foster will join world-renowned tenor Andrea Bocelli for his September 15 Central Park concert with the New York Philharmonic. As previously reported, the concert will be taped in HD by Great Performances and broadcast as part of PBS’ Fall Arts Festival on December 2 at 9pm.

The concert, conducted by Joe Miller and featuring music direction by Alan Glibert, will also feature sopranos Ana María Martínez and Pretty Yende, violinist Nicola Benedetti, bass baritone Bryn Terfel and flutist Andrea Griminelli, along with the Westminster Symphonic Choir, Joe Miller, director.

Bocelli has performed classical recitals and opera on the stage of the Vienna State Opera, the New York Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Washington Opera, the San Antonio Opera, the Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, and Florence’s Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, among others, and he has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra.

For further information about the concert, click here.

For more information about PBS’ specials, click here.