Opera isn’t always sad but it can be both sad and uplifting, which is hard to achieve in most musical genres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRR1kcAuE7Y&list=TLPQMTEwNzIwMjb8gC1J8e9wMg&index=4

Time to say goodbye is Andrea Bocelli’s signature, but this particular presentation (apparently somewhere in Russia, sometime in 2021) is — besides being beautifully sung…goosebumps — one of the strangest stagings I’ve ever seen.

When the fireworks start, no one can see the duo singing …at all! But it IS still, one of the best, most moving songs ever recorded.