Romanza

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title: "Romanza" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["andrea-bocelli-compilation-albums", "1997-compilation-albums", "albums-produced-by-frank-peterson", "italian-language-compilation-albums", "1990s-italian-language-albums", "spanish-language-compilation-albums", "1990s-spanish-language-albums"] description: "1997 compilation album by Andrea Bocelli" topic_path: "arts/music" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanza" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary 1997 compilation album by Andrea Bocelli ::

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Field	Value
name	Romanza
type	compilation
artist	Andrea Bocelli
cover	BocelliRomanzaAlbumCover.jpg
released
recorded	1996
genre
length
label
producer
prev_title	Viaggio Italiano
prev_year	1996
next_title	Aria: The Opera Album
next_year	1998
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| name = Romanza | type = compilation | artist = Andrea Bocelli | cover = BocelliRomanzaAlbumCover.jpg | alt = | released = | recorded = 1996 | studio = | genre = | length = | label = | producer = | prev_title = Viaggio Italiano | prev_year = 1996 | next_title = Aria: The Opera Album | next_year = 1998 | name = Romanza (20th Anniversary Edition) | type = compilation | artist = Andrea Bocelli | cover = | alt = | released = 18 November 2016 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = | length = | label = | producer = | prev_title = Cinema | prev_year = 2015 | next_title = Sì | next_year = 2018 Romanza is the first compilation album by Italian tenor singer Andrea Bocelli, released internationally in 1997.

Although a compilation, Romanza is considered Bocelli's breakthrough album and is his most commercially successful, topping charts throughout Europe and Latin America. With over 20 million copies sold, it is both the best-selling Italian-language album and the best-selling predominantly non-English language album of all time, as well as one of the best-selling albums worldwide.

Background

The album is a compilation of Bocelli's two previous pop albums, Il mare calmo della sera, released in 1994, and Bocelli, released in 1995.

Promotion

North America

As Romanza was Bocelli's first album released in the United States and Canada, both the album and Bocelli himself were heavily promoted. This included Bocelli being featured in Hotel Bellagio's commercials in North America, as well as his voice being heard in its fountain show.

PBS also played a big part in Bocelli's early success in the States, with the airing of A Night in Tuscany, Bocelli's first Great Performances special, a concert filmed in 1997 in his native Tuscany.

Europe

In August, Bocelli first appeared at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, Italy, and then at the World Youth Festival, in Paris, France, where he sang in the presence of Pope John Paul II to an audience of 800,000 people.

In 1997, Bocelli won three major awards in Germany. On March 3, Bocelli appeared in Hamburg, with Sarah Brightman to receive the ECHO music award for "Best Single of the Year", for "Time to Say Goodbye", on September 14, he received an ECHO Klassik, in Munich, for "Best seller of the year", for his previous album, Viaggio Italiano, and finally, on October 25, Bocelli received a Bambi award, an annual television and media prize awarded by the German media company Hubert Burda Media, in Cologne. All three ceremonies were broadcast live in Germany.

The album was also supported in Germany, by a series of concerts, including 22 open-air concerts in the country, as well as an indoor concert in Oberhausen. His German Tour started in Locarno, Switzerland on June 6, and ended in Berlin on August 30, with other venues including Hannover, Hamburg, Münster, Rügen, Koblenz, Aachen, Wiesbaden, Kiel, Stuttgart, Leverkusen, Baden-Baden, Dresden, Coburg, Leipzig, München, Kassel, Halle, Essen, Aschaffenburg, and Nuremberg.

In the United Kingdom, Bocelli held a concert with Sarah Brightman, at the Royal Albert Hall, in London, in the fall.

Back in Italy, on September 27, Bocelli sang again before the Pope at the International Eucharistic Congress, in Bologna. On October 19, he sang at the TeleFood benefit concert held in Vatican City, and organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization to raise awareness about world hunger.

On December 15 and 20, 1997, Bocelli held a concert in Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, in Paris, and a concert in Seefeld, Austria.

Bocelli also performed the French version of "Vivo per lei" with French singer, Hélène Ségara, on television programmes in France and Belgium, the Spanish version of song with Spanish singer, Marta Sánchez, on television programmes in Spain, and the German version of the song with German singer, Judy Weiss, on television programmes in Germany and Switzerland. A music video for each of those three versions was released in those countries. In addition, a music video of the Portuguese version of the song, sang with Brazilian singer Sandy, was also released in Brazil and Portugal, contributing to Romanzas success in the two countries.

''Romanza (20th Anniversary Edition)''

In 2016, a new special edition of the album was released worldwide to celebrate 20 years since the album's original release. The original album has been remastered and including also three bonus tracks.

Track listing

| headline = International standard listing | extra_column = Producer(s) | total_length = | title1 = Con te partirò | writer1 = | extra1 = Mauro Malavasi | length1 = 4:09 | title2 = Vivere | note2 = featuring Gerardina Trovato | writer2 = | extra2 = | length2 = 4:41 | title3 = Per Amore | writer3 = Mariella Nava | extra3 = Malavasi | length3 = 4:42 | title4 = Il Mare Calmo Della Sera | writer4 = | extra4 = | length4 = 4:40 | title5 = Caruso | writer5 = Lucio Dalla | extra5 = | length5 = 5:16 | title6 = Macchine da Guerra | writer6 = Angus Smith | extra6 = Malavasi | length6 = 4:08 | title7 = Le Tue Parole | writer7 = | extra7 = Malavasi | length7 = 3:57 | title8 = Vivo per lei | note8 = featuring Giorgia | writer8 = | extra8 = Malavasi | length8 = 4:23 | title9 = Romanza | writer9 = Malavasi | extra9 = Malavasi | length9 = 3:41 | title10 = La Luna Che Non C'è | writer10 = | extra10 = | length10 = 4:30 | title11 = Rapsodia | writer11 = Malise | extra11 = | length11 = 5:28 | title12 = Voglio Restare Così | writer12 = Andrea Bocelli | extra12 = Malavasi | length12 = 3:51 | title13 = E Chiove | writer13 = | extra13 = Malavasi | length13 = 4:21 | title14 = Miserere | note14 = featuring John Miles) (live) (bonus track | writer14 = Zucchero | extra14 = | length14 = 4:20 | title15 = Time to Say Goodbye | note15 = featuring Sarah Brightman | writer15 = | extra15 = Frank Peterson | length15 = 4:04 | headline = Romanza (Italian and Spanish version) standard listing | extra_column = Producer(s) | total_length = | title1 = Por ti Volaré | writer1 = | extra1 = | length1 = 4:09 | title2 = Vivere | note2 = with Gerardina Trovato | writer2 = Trovato | extra2 = | length2 = 4:41 | title3 = Por Amor | writer3 = Nava | extra3 = | length3 = 4:42 | title4 = El Silencio de la Espera | writer4 = | extra4 = | length4 = 4:40 | title5 = Caruso | writer5 = Dalla | extra5 = | length5 = 5:16 | title6 = Le Tue Parole | writer6 = | extra6 = | length6 = 3:57 | title7 = Vivo por Ella | note7 = with Marta Sánchez | writer7 = | extra7 = | length7 = 4:23 | title8 = Romanza | writer8 = Malavasi | extra8 = | length8 = 3:41 | title9 = Voglio Restare Così | writer9 = Bocelli | extra9 = | length9 = 3:51 | title10 = E Chiove | writer10 = | extra10 = | length10 = 4:21 | title11 = Miserere | note11 = with John Miles – bonus track | writer11 = Zucchero | extra11 = | length11 = 4:20 | title12 = Time to Say Goodbye | note12 = with Sarah Brightman | writer12 = | extra12 = | length12 = 4:07 | headline = Romanza (20th Anniversary Edition) | total_length = | title1 = Con te partirò | writer1 = | length1 = 4:09 | title2 = Vivere | note2 = with Gerardina Trovato | writer2 = Gerardina Trovato | length2 = 4:41 | title3 = Per Amore | writer3 = Mariella Nava | length3 = 4:42 | title4 = Il Mare Calmo Della Sera | writer4 = | length4 = 4:40 | title5 = Caruso | writer5 = Lucio Dalla | length5 = 5:16 | title6 = Macchine da Guerra | writer6 = Angus Smith | length6 = 4:08 | title7 = Le Tue Parole | writer7 = | length7 = 3:57 | title8 = Vivo per lei | note8 = with Giorgia | writer8 = | length8 = 4:23 | title9 = Romanza | writer9 = Mauro Malavasi | length9 = 3:41 | title10 = La Luna Che Non C'è | writer10 = | length10 = 4:30 | title11 = Rapsodia | writer11 = Malise | length11 = 5:28 | title12 = Voglio Restare Così | writer12 = Andrea Bocelli | length12 = 3:51 | title13 = E Chiove | writer13 = | length13 = 4:21 | title14 = Miserere | note14 = with John Miles – bonus track | writer14 = Zucchero | length14 = 4:20 | title15 = Time to Say Goodbye | note15 = with Sarah Brightman | writer15 = | length15 = 4:04 | title16 = Con te partirò (orchestra 2016 version) | note16 = bonus track – Romanza 20th Anniversary | writer16 = | length16 = 4:14 | title17 = Con te partirò (piano and voice 2016 version) | note17 = bonus track – Romanza 20th Anniversary | writer17 = | length17 = 4:03 | title18 = Il Mare Calmo Della Sera (2016 version) | note18 = bonus track – Romanza 20th Anniversary | writer18 = | length18 = 4:14 | title19 = Con te partirò (orchestra instrumental 2016 version) | note19 = extra bonus – digital only – Romanza 20th Anniversary | writer19 = | length19 = 4:17 | title20 = Con te partirò (orchestra and choir 2016 version) | note20 = extra bonus – digital only – Romanza 20th Anniversary | writer20 = | length20 = 4:17

Commercial performance

First in Europe, then on charts around the world, the album amassed a multitude of platinum and multi-platinum awards, outselling even Bocelli's 1995 album, Bocelli, with worldwide sales in excess of 20 million copies.

With more than 350,000 units sold in Switzerland, it is the second best-selling album in history there, and with over two million copies sold in France, it is among the top 10 best-selling albums ever in the country.

It also received triple platinum status in the United States with 4.2 million copies sold, being Bocelli's first album released in the States, and Diamond status in Canada. Actual sales stand at 1,133,000 copies across Canada according to Nielsen, making Romanza the best-selling album by a foreign artist of the Nielsen SoundScan era, and the fourth best-selling overall, in Canada.

To date, the album remains Bocelli's most commercially successful, and is considered his breakthrough album, launching his career worldwide.

Charts

Weekly charts

::data[format=table title="Weekly chart performance for ''Romanza''"] | Chart (1997–2002) | Peak position | Czech Republican Albums (IFPI CR) | Danish Albums (Hitlisten) | Eurochart (Music & Media) | Italian Albums (FIMI) | Portuguese Albums (AFP) | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | | | | | 1 | | | | | | | ::

Year-end charts

::data[format=table title="1997 year-end chart performance for ''Romanza''"]

Chart (1997)	Position	Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)	Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)	Danish Albums (Hitlisten)	Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)	European Top 100 Albums (Music & Media)	French Albums (SNEP)	German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)	Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)	Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)
53
17
13
4
2
1
3
64
1
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::data[format=table title="1998 year-end chart performance for ''Romanza''"]

Chart (1998)	Position	Australian Albums (ARIA)	Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)	Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)	Canadian Albums (RPM)	Danish Albums (Hitlisten)	Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)	European Top 100 Albums (Music & Media)	French Albums (SNEP)	German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)	Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)	US Billboard 200
13
80
19
9
26
15
16
18
87
29
59
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::data[format=table title="1999 year-end chart performance for ''Romanza''"]

Chart (1999)	Position	Australian Albums (ARIA)	Canadian Albums (RPM)	Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)	New Zealand Albums (RIANZ)	US Billboard 200
39
94
52
20
73
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::data[format=table title="2000 year-end chart performance for ''Romanza''"]

Chart (2000)	Position	Australian Albums (ARIA)	Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)
57
154
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::data[format=table title="2001 year-end chart performance for ''Romanza''"]

Chart (2001)	Position	UK Albums (OCC)
129
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Sales and certifications

PBS Special

Main article: A Night in Tuscany

A Night in Tuscany, Bocelli's first PBS Great Performances special, filmed in 1997, was designed to promote the album.

The concert held in his native Tuscany, at the Piazza dei Cavalieri, in Pisa, saw Bocelli perform two opera duets with soprano Nuccia Focile, sing "Miserere" with Italian rock star Zucchero, who discovered him in 1992, and finally "Time to Say Goodbye" with English soprano Sarah Brightman. The DVD of the full program was internationally released on November 10, 1998.

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