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Arts | OPERA REVIEW. OPERA REVIEW; A Blind Pop Tenor Takes On the Operatic Stage. There were crestfallen faces throughout the audience at the Detroit Opera House on Friday night as Andrea Bocelli made his North American opera debut in the title role of Massenet's ''Werther'' with the Michigan Opera Theater.
He is blind due to retinopathy of prematurity due to excessive oxygen in his incubator when he was born. Andrea Bocelli (1958-) â An Italian classical tenor, he was born with congenital glaucoma, but lost his vision at the age of 12 following a soccer accident in which he was hit in the head. He started playing piano when he was six, also learning the saxophone and flute.