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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.
Andrea Bocelli Known for his impressive operatic voice, Bocelli has had congenital glaucoma from a very young age. While he was already at greater risk for vision loss because of his glaucoma, the Italian-born tenor went totally blind at 12 years old after a suffering a brain hemorrage, the result of a soccer accident.