Il Divo to perform live in Manila this April
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In the modern opera world, there is no other group that has been able to cross over to a general audience with the same verve and powerful sensuality as Latin fuego sensations IL DIVO.
First brought together by musical visionary Simon Cowell in 2003, the quartet of Urs Buhler, Sebastien Izambard, Carlos Marin and David Miller, have transformed the landscape of Classical Crossover with over 30 million album sales worldwide and are still going great guns twelve years and four chart topping albums later.
Now PLDT HOME FIBR and PULP LIVE WORLD bring the Philippines IL DIVO as they tour their much awaited AMOR & PASION – an album full of love and romance – for the first time in our country in a full arena setting on APRIL 6, 2016 at the Mall of Asia Arena.
Get ready to be seduced by the sultry rhythms of Spain, Cuba, Argentina and Mexico in a glorious full scale set up as the Armani-clad physiques of Urs, Sebastien, Carlos and David make the house swoon with the Latin sensuality of their music which is underpinned by the use of Spanish in every song. It is, David says, the perfect language for IL DIVO: “When we started 11 years ago, our directive was to take this handful of songs and inject them with Latin charisma, passion, romanticism. So we took these well-known songs like Unbreak My Heart and My Way and we translated them into Spanish or Italian.”
“The Spanish language lends itself to our music – the four of us have different musical backgrounds, different national sensibilities. Spanish was the language that could flow easily from all four of us. It allowed the changing of the gears. So here we are doing an album of the music that kind of inspired the whole process to begin with. There’s something very special about it.”
Working with Columbian producer and multiple Latin Grammy winner Julio Reyes Copello, IL DIVO have recorded 12 songs spanning a century of traditional tangos, smouldering boleros and classic mambas. Working alongside the Latin Division of Sony – whose expertise in this wonderful repertoire is second to none – the music hails from Spain and Cuba, from Central and South America. On the playlist are familiar hits – such as Julio Iglesias’ iconic A Las Mujeres Que Yo Ame (To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before), Gloria Estefan’s resonant Si Voy A Perderte (Don’t Wanna Lose You), along with Himno De La Alegria, an exciting Latin treatment of Beethoven’s Ode To Joy, which Carlos says feels like their very own Nessun Dorma.
IL DIVO has performed in front of kings and queens such as President Barack Obama and Her Majesty The Queen as well as shared microphones with fellow superstars Barbra Streisand and Celine Dion, now let them tantalize you on April 6 at the Mall of Asia Arena in one glorious night and passionate music.
Tickets to this amazing spectacle go on sale worldwide via SM Tickets on Friday February 12, 2016 at all SM Ticket outlets nationwide and online at www.smtickets.com. For more information, please log on to www.pulpliveworld.com. For VIP assistance please email [email protected]
