How Andrea Bocelli’s Co-Managers Shepherd His Legendary Career (And Voice): ‘It’s Like an Athlete’

Toward the end of the 2025 documentary Andrea Bocelli: Because I Believe , there’s a striking overhead shot of the famed, blind Italian tenor bicycling, carefree, along the Tuscan Riviera — side by side, hand in hand, with his wife and co-manager, Veronica.

It’s a poetic image, one that captures the dynamic the Bocellis have both personally and professionally.

When Veronica met Andrea in her early 20s, he had just parted ways with his longtime manager (due to what Veronica calls “many misunderstandings” in the documentary) and, at his request, she jumped into the role, despite knowing little English or anything much about the music business at the time.

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Today, more than two decades later, they co-manage Bocelli’s singular, global career, which now — after 29 Billboard 200 albums, 22 No.

1s on the Classical Albums chart and 2.22 billion official on-demand streams, according to Luminate — is still bridging the pop and classical worlds.

Though Veronica half-jokes that her husband has insisted he’s retiring since the moment they met, Andrea Bocelli has had an astoundingly busy year.

He and his son Matteo (who is also a singer) joined Snoop Dogg for the rapper’s NFL Christmas halftime special; he sang a Puccini aria as headliner of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics in February; and he joined forces with Megan Thee Stallion , David Guetta and EJAE for “DNA (More Than a Game),” the official anthem of the FIFA World Cup, which they performed at the opening ceremony in Mexico City in June.

This year, Bocelli also celebrated the 30th anniversary of Romanza, his international breakthrough that became one of the best-selling albums of all time; performed his usual two summer concerts at Teatro del Silenzio, the stunning outdoor theater in his birthplace of Lajatico, Tuscany, that has operated only the days of the year that Bocelli is performing since 2006; and played his annual holiday shows at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Last year, Bocelli signed a five-year deal with AEG (in partnership with WME) that the promoter called “the most significant ever for a classical artist.” He’ll soon make his debut at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado — part of a schedule of roughly 80 shows a year the 68-year-old maintains.