Con Te Partirò

Andrea Bocelli has been blind since the age of twelve following a football accident, and has spent his career building a catalog of operatic and popular crossover recordings that have made him one of the best-selling classical artists in history. The voice — a full tenor of remarkable range and warmth — has carried that commercial success without exhausting itself.

Con Te Partirò, written by Francesco Sartori with lyrics by Lucio Quarantotto, became his signature song after its 1995 release — and became a global phenomenon in a duet version with Sarah Brightman under the title "Time to Say Goodbye."

Bocelli's presence in the One Curious World archive — alongside Slayer, The Residents, and Captain Beefheart — is one of the most eloquent statements about what curation means: the willingness to be moved by anything that is genuinely moving.