Il Divo returns to Australia this month for the first time in five years – and a lot has changed since its last visit. The carefully chosen tour title, A New Day, speaks to the classical crossover group’s emergence from a dark, challenging time, emotionally and professionally.
On 8 December, 2021, midway through Il Divo’s For Once In My Life tour, Spanish baritone Carlos Marín was hospitalised in the UK with COVID. He passed away on 19 December.
Il Divo. Photo © Mario Schmolka
Shocked by his death, his co-stars – American tenor David Miller, Swiss tenor Urs Bühler and French pop artist Sébastien Izambard – found themselves wondering whether Il Divo had a future.
“The last few years have been so difficult on so many levels,” says Miller, chatting to Limelight from his New York home via Zoom.
“With Carlos passing at the end of 2021, we thought that was it. We thought that was the end of the band, because not only was he such an integral part of the personality of the band, but the music was geared towards him and the nature of his voice. Sebastien, Urs...
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