Three young men from Sicily and Puglia have spent the better part of two decades turning opera houses, arenas, and piazzas into places where twenty-somethings cry over Puccini and grandmothers scream like they're at a rock show. That is, in a sentence, the strange and wonderful appeal of Il Volo. ...

Few voices in modern music carry the kind of reverence that greets Andrea Bocelli's. For three decades, the blind tenor from Lajatico, Tuscany, has turned arenas built for hockey and basketball into something closer to cathedrals. Buying tickets to one of his shows is not quite like buying tickets ...