SAN DIEGO — Andrea Bocelli, attorney at law?
Before he became a global sensation as the top-selling opera singer in history — or "popera," as some have described his enormous crossover success — the Italian superstar earned his law degree at the University of Pisa and worked as a public defender.
Bocelli's switch from litigation to librettos came only after the blind singer decided his heart was in singing arias and cadenzas, not in analyzing affidavits and appealing convictions.
