# The song played over the World Series credits **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 27, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-played-over-the-world-series-credits/38556 "2000-10-27T04:48:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beakerxf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@beakerxf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beakerxf)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-played-over-the-world-series-credits/38556/1 "2000-10-27T04:48:18Z")
Did anyone here watch the World Series credits and hear the quasi-opera duet? Do you know who sang it and the song title? ---
**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-played-over-the-world-series-credits/38556/2 "2000-10-27T23:36:17Z")
I’m curious, m’self. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-played-over-the-world-series-credits/38556/3 "2000-10-28T01:15:43Z")
Man, I was gonna post the same question!!! Don’t let this thread die. We’ve got to figure it out. Let me give a description of it. It’s about saying goodbye, is in operatic form with opera singers, one male and one female. He’s a tenor and she’s a soprano(surprise surprise). Now the song seemed to be split into two languages for different verses. One was English, but I think the other was Italian(???). Did anyone else hear this and know what song it was? ---
**Author:** ![mellonhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@mellonhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mellonhead)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-played-over-the-world-series-credits/38556/4 "2000-10-28T02:17:51Z")
Is it something from the “Pavorotti and Friends” album with Celene Dion (sorry guys, I don’t keep up with baseball, but from your description it may be worth checking out)? ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-played-over-the-world-series-credits/38556/5 "2000-10-28T07:22:31Z")
Creepy. I too was wondering this and I just figured this one out. It’s a great song. It makes more than a few appearances in _The Sopranos_. It’s called "_Con Te Partiro_ " by composer Francesco Sartori. The title means “With you I’ll leave”. The male singer is Andrea Bocelli known to most people as “that handsome blind Italian opera guy”. In fact I found his name by typing “blind opera singer” into Google. The _Sopranos_ version is just Andrea singing it. It is on Bocelli’s album [_Romanza_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000041OG/qid=972717298/sr=1-/103-3257374-8047050) The Bocelli version of _CTP_ was never released as a single in the US, but it was **huge** in Europe. Sold three million copies there alone. However, the World Series credits version is clearly a duet. The _Romanza_ album also has a duet version of “Con Te Partiro” with the parenthetical title “Time to Say Goodbye”, as these are the only English words sung in this song. The female part is sung by Sarah Brightman. However, I have also seen versions of the duet sung with Celine instead of Sarah. I don’t know which woman he’s singing with in the WS version, but both versions are very good. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-played-over-the-world-series-credits/38556/6 "2000-10-28T07:42:06Z")
OK just realized something. I can’t find actualy solid evidence that Celine Dion ever sang “Con Te Partiro” with Bocelli. I assumed she did because her name turned up in a few web searches as singing in CTP with Bocelli. It turns out that a lot of MP3 titles credit her as being the female singer. Now a lot of MP3 titles have inaccurate info on the artist (I once saw an MP3 claim that “Video Killed the Radio Star” was sung by the Bangles) so that information may be false. Celine _did_ do a duet with Bocelli on her album _These are Special Times_ but the song is “The Prayer”. Not CTP. So upon further consideration, I’d say that the World Series credits version was Mr. Bocelli and Ms. Brightman. ---
**Author:** ![beakerxf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@beakerxf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beakerxf)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2000, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-played-over-the-world-series-credits/38556/7 "2000-10-28T18:44:50Z")
Alphagene, I love you. _smooch_ Cool, now I can go and buy the album.