Paul Potts (& Maske) at Atlantis.

We had anticipated a fantastic concert on Friday night, and we weren't disappointed.

The opening act, Maske, was an electric string trio from Australia. Excellent musicians. Fun. Pretty.

The transition to Paul Potts was handled spectacularly with Maske accompanying Paul on "The Prayer".

On his own after that with, unfortunately, canned music he still startled with the depth of emotion that he brings to his singing. He virtually vibrates with it, and it comes across splendidly.

It's not that I don't like Bocelli, for example. Technically he may even be superior to Paul. But he's not as easy to "feel" as anyone knows who has ever seen Paul's "Britain's Got Talent" audition version of Nessun Dorma.

It was his encore on Friday night, and every bit as moving.

Too bad the audience wasn't larger. Maybe just over half the theatre was full. Maybe Atlantis set the price a bit steep.

In any event, this was an extremely rare splurge for us, but thank you Kerzner Iternational, it was everything we had hoped!