This episode of Porta a Porta was supposed to air in February, but due to the war in Ukraine it has always been postponed.

Last week, with no ads and no announcements, it aired after midnight. Here is the episode and what has been said.

Please click on the photo below to view the video.

VESPA = We are approaching Eurovision, in Turin, the great music festival, and we are going there, remembering Il Volo, the boys of Il Volo, which we baptized here more than 10 years ago.

Let’s open this segment with the guys from Il Volo who will come here, in the studio, with us, and with this clip, Il Volo introduces itself.

(begins a video that traces many moments of Il Volo’s career. Immediately after, Il Volo, in the studio, sings “SE”).

Il Volo, celebrates more than 10 years of success at Porta a Porta. Piero Barone, 29 years old, Ignazio Boschetto, 28 years old, and the plague, Gianluca Ginoble, the worst of all, who runs away, cannot be found, is undisciplined, messy  😁(he says it in a benevolent tone), but he is only 27 years old that we have to do??

GIANLUCA= I’m the youngest, by the way I just turned 27, just last week. 

IGNAZIO= He is the smallest! (Maybe he also says it in a double sense, he also means height) 😁

PIERO = So, I’m the oldest at the table.

VESPA = Madonna, how old are you.

IGNAZIO = Can we sit down?

VESPA = Sure.

PIERO = Bruno, what did I tell you a little while ago?

VESPA + PIERO = The promises are kept. (They had promised to return soon to Porta a Porta)

VESPA = Look, I know it takes a long time . We love you so much, you love us so much, we have brought each other luck ….

PIERO = This program brings good luck, you were the first to invite us and tell everything we were doing outside (means outside Italy).

IGNAZIO = I can say that your program and you were the first person and the first (Italian) program who believed in us, and never took us for granted. We always have Porta a Porta and you in our hearts.

VESPA = Thanks, thanks, thanks.

After two years of hiatus due to the pandemic, who would have said it would last that long, seven thousand people sent home to Los Angeles (he refers to the canceled concerts) and now, go home and then in June ….

PIERO = Exactly, we will start in May from Japan (they didn’t go, I remind you that this episode was recorded in February), in June there will be concerts in Italy, we start from the Arena di Verona, 3 and 4 and maybe … . (implies that there might have been another date) ….

IGNAZIO = Yes, because we have been postponing it for two years

PIERO = Two years, and it seems that we are finally leaving…

VESPA = How many concerts in Italy?

PIERO = In Italy, there will be more or less 15 concerts, I don’t know exactly it’s all in the planning phase.

VESPA = And then instead in autumn: United States …..

PIERO = Autumn: September US, South America will follow and we will return to Japan, then concerts in Europe, we have to recover two years of work.

VESPA = There are many people waiting for you.
Well, we first heard “SE”, taken from the movie “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”, now we listen to “Ecstasy of Gold” beautiful music by Morricone …

IGNAZIO = Then we also have Clint Eastwood here in the studio (he jokes referring to Gianluca, applause)

GIANLUCA = You two are targeting me, I understand.

VESPA = You have to go straight (a way of saying to be good)

GIANLUCA = I’m going straight, I’m the most restless one, right?

VESPA = Let’s hear these guys (Ecstasy of gold video starts).

This splendid video was filmed in Sardinia, “Il Volo Sings Morricone”, released on November 5th and distributed all over the world. But now we have to go back nine years, you are celebrating 10 years.

IGNAZIO = Yes, we have been celebrating this for two years now (laughter).😁

GIANLUCA = The celebrations never stopped.

VESPA = But you were just out, remember, we took you that you were in swaddling clothes, very small.

GIANLUCA = We have always been a little kids, now almost men.

VESPA = You were kids on December 17, 2013.

PIERO = We were here.

VESPA = Here, at Porta a Porta, let’s see. (a video of Porta a Porta starts and the boys sing “Un Amore così Grande”)

You were really little, and you had already been to America, however, you came from America.

IGNAZIO = We came from America. I remember.

PIERO = What is 2017?

VESPA + IGNAZIO = 2013

VESPA = (Turning to Piero) You looked the youngest, you looked really small, small …

PIERO = I didn’t have a beard, that tuft, a little restyling was done.

GIANLUCA = Before, when we were a little younger,  people liked us , because we were child prodigies, in short, who sang with a different voice than our peers, we dressed a little like “grown-ups”.

Today it’s the other way around, see? (touches his beardless face) Today one takes off his beard and wants to look younger.

IGNAZIO = You take off your beard because you want to look younger. 😁

PIERO = He must always speak in the plural.😁

GIANLUCA = As a child you want to look older, do you see how we were dressed? We were dressed in our thirties there.

VESPA = Can I tell you something? Only once in my life did I feel old … who knows why at 27, at your age (talk to Gianluca)

GIANLUCA = Is it true?

VESPA = You saw, we had the same feeling, and now you are rejuvenated.

GIANLUCA = You can see that at 27 we Abruzzo feel “old”.

VESPA = At 27 we hear it and then we don’t !!

PIERO = The crisis of the 27th year.

VESPA = Yes, the 27th year crisis. (laughter) 😁

So, you then moved on to the theme songs of the television novels.

PIERO = For this you have to talk to Ignazio.

VESPA = Ignazio !

IGNAZIO = But I’ve always had a passion for writing music, I was in Sicily, and I remember I was sitting on the veranda, and the melody came out. So I carried it on and Makari was born.

VESPA = But during Covid?

IGNAZIO = Yes, it was that summer that seemed ….

VESPA = …. that things would return to normal?

IGNAZIO = Yes, like baby candy, right?😁

VESPA = Exactly.

IGNAZIO = And then I found myself writing this melody, and then, with Danilo Ciotti, our collaborator, we presented this song to the Palomar family, who are the producers of Makari, and so it all started.

VESPA = And it went well, let’s hear it. (begins the video of the song Makari)

And good Ignazio!

IGNAZIO = Thanks.

VESPA = Five million viewers!

IGNAZIO = Oh yes.

VESPA = It went really well.
What did you three do during the two years of Covid?

(he turns to Gianluca)
What have you done?

IGNAZIO = He took off his beard! 😁

GIANLUCA = But no!  We decided not to live them passively, trying to stimulate creativity. I learned a little to play the piano, I accompanied  me while I sang, it was my wish.

Then I studied acting a little. We reinvented ourselves, we thought of new projects. Morricone’s project was born thanks to two years of silence.

VESPA = (he turns to Ignazio)
And what about you?

IGNAZIO= You think, I lost weight in the pandemic, and then I gained weight, when everything was sorted out (I think he meant that he had lost weight around the time of his father’s passing away). 

I found love.❤ I studied a lot in the studio, and I improved.

VESPA = Did love distract you a lot?

IGNAZIO = Absolutely not!

VESPA = Did the love train you? Has it invigorated you?

It makes you dream, breathe ….

IGNAZIO = Love is beautiful when it makes you feel good, I’m fine. 😘

GIANLUCA = (to Vespa)
You know it’s nice to see you in this role, I don’t see you asking about Meloni’s love (she is a political representative) (Gianluca means that: Porta a Porta is a program that deals with many topics, even political ones, often guests are politicians and they are not asked about their loves, of course) 😁

VESPA = You rather, you sentimentally, how are you doing?

GIANLUCA = I’m in love, I found love too last year, on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, think, what a story, like a fairy tale, do you realize? ❤

VESPA = Mamma mia! (and then turns to Piero)

IGNAZIO = Piero never talks (about the subject of love)

VESPA = I don’t want to invade privacy

PIERO = I like privacy, I prefer to live it for myself.

VESPA = …. live it for yourself, so is there a story? ….

PIERO = I mean my private life, for me my private life remains private ….

IGNAZIO = (he comes to his friend’s rescue by trying to change the subject) Morricone was a great project, we worked hard 😁😁😁

VESPA = Look at these (Ignazio and Gianluca) talking.
What happened during Morricone?

IGNAZIO = Look, I’m perhaps the wrong person if you want to know something, I have a concrete stomach.

PIERO = About what?

IGNAZIO = On private lives, our gossips.

PIERO = In these two years we have had more time at our disposal, we have always had a hectic life, we have committed all our energies to Ennio Morricone’s project because you know, facing this world requires a lot of study, a lot of research and many thanks to the family of Ennio Morricone.

We have to thank his son, Andrea Morricone, also a great conductor, we had great support from him, he was like our compass, the world of Ennio Morricone is infinite and thanks to our producers and our team we have created Il Volo Sings Morricone, we also gave you vinyl for Christmas….

VESPA = Beautiful, beautiful, thank you!

PIERO = ….. we are delighted to have given voice to Morricone’s melodies, hoping that people are satisfied.

IGNAZIO = Can I add a little thing? At the beginning, perhaps we did not have a great knowledge of Ennio Morricone’s culture.

Once we thought about carrying on this thought, this idea, we immediately began to study, to understand who Morricone really was, because we had the opportunity to meet him in 2010, when we recorded our first album, and we had the opportunity to share the stage with him in 2011, but now we were more interested in understanding who he was and when we entered his world it was like taking a dip in a pool full of culture and emotions, full of feelings who always have something in store for you, it’s hard to explain!

VESPA = Now let’s see a video about who the three guys from Il Volo are all the way through.
Come on.

IGNAZIO = Help!
(part of a video with images of Il Volo a Porta a Porta)

In the video:

WOMAN’S VOICE = It’s been 10 years since Ignazio Boschetto, Piero Barone and Gianluca Ginoble came to visit us for the first time in Porta a Porta, at the dawn of their success.

Ten years in which Il Volo reached unimaginable heights, first, the enormous success in the US, with the invitation of Quincy Jones at the concert for Haiti, with stars of the caliber of Barbra Streisand, Bono and Lady Gaga, the transmission of Hellen De Generes and the lighting of the Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center.

Then the consecration in Italy with the victory at the Sanremo Festival in 2015, a real triumph, so much so that Grande Amore, reaches 110 million views worldwide (now there are over 215 million views), and drags the trio to third place in the prestigious Eurovision Song Contest, where they are the most voted by the public.

That year we also accompanied them to New York, touching on their popularity, their kindness, their uncommon values, namely: bel canto, family, principles, sobriety, education and respect, especially among themselves, nothing that is taken for granted nowadays.

In the span of a decade they bring the Italian classics all over the world, modernizing them, without upsetting them, it is the boys in sneakers who sing Nessun Dorma and O Sole Mio, to use their words.

They also have the honor of singing in front of Pope Francis and over a million people in Panama on the occasion of World Youth Day.

Even during the health emergency, they continue to make all their fans feel the warmth, participating in the most important international streaming reviews, with a great sense of community and responsibility.

And now, as a sign of rebirth and hope, their world tour is about to start, 110 dates around the world, to celebrate their first 10 extraordinary years of career, an eagerly awaited reunion with the public, to continue to proudly bring Italy and its beauty around the world.

VESPA = We have taken the baton from Aunt Antonella, Antonella Clerici, (Ti Lascio Una Canzone).

GIANLUCA = We greet you with great affection.

VESPA = With great affection.
But you, when did you get together?

IGNAZIO = We met on that TV show, (Ti Lascio Una Canzone), we didn’t know each other before ….

VESPA = Where did you go to sing separately ….

IGNAZIO = We met for the auditions in Rome, in via dei Gracchi.

VESPA = Via dei Gracchi, but each one had gone on his own.

IGNAZIO = Yes, yes! Then in Sanremo, which was where the broadcast took place, we met and in the fourth episode we sang together for the first time (25/04/2009).

PIERO = …. O Sole Mio.

IGNAZIO = … yes, O Sole Mio.

PIERO = Excuse me.

IGNAZIO = But calculate that Gianluca, we couldn’t see him.

VESPA = Was Gianluca terrible?

IGNAZIO = Do you know when you create small groups at school of the normal ones, the quiet ones and the cool ones? 😁

He was part of the cool, but it showed (applause and laughter), then in the end he came in our way, understood!

VESPA = He has converted.

IGNAZIO = And so it all started from there.

VESPA = (to Gianluca) But why are they talking about you like that?

IGNAZIO = Because we love him after all, at the bottom, at the bottom …..😘

GIANLUCA = ….. but at the very bottom 😁.

But that was our strength right from the start, did you understand? (to be united). Not only artistically, it was the first time that children sang O Sole Mio.

But then I like to see these videos and remember those moments, because Bel Canto allows you to perform in unique places, but above all to support yourself in projects like Morricone, like in Placido Domingo, like the Maestro Vittorio Storaro who accompanied us on this adventure. We have the honor, at our age, to join these names in cinema and music.

VESPA = Then I will ask you to sing a piece of O Sole Mio, sitting here, so a cappella …

IGNAZIO = If Barone says yes, that’s fine !! 😁

VESPA = Is he the boss?

IGNAZIO = Yes yes, (he jokes) see how he is placed with his arms folded …..

PIERO = I’m listening!

I link to what you were saying, seeing these old videos is really exciting, but on a daily basis it is difficult to find the stimulus and clearly find ideas on what to do. We sang in front of the Pope ….. and now what do we do? And I must tell you that it is a team effort, especially with our manager Torpedine, Mr. Torpedine, he is the mind of this group, and now a little while ago we were looking at the images of last Christmas, we sang three songs in St. Peter’s Square , this year we did it from the Frasassi Caves, a magical place.

VESPA = You will go to Bethlehem.

PIERO = And next year, we are working, by now we are at a good point … (he looks at Torpedine to have approval of the news he is saying)

IGNAZIO = We are checking in.

PIERO = We will sing in front of the grotto of the Nativity in Bethlehem and all this, we must say, also thanks to the support of the Undersecretary for Culture, for whom in November, we will sing in the world meeting of ministers of culture.

VESPA = Beautiful, very beautiful.

PIERO = Yes, I have to tell you that they are very beautiful things.

IGNAZIO = Can I say something? I want to reach out more to young people, to those who, like us, try to send their message. Nowadays it is very easy to arrive, with social networks, with the internet, it is very easy.

VESPA = The problem is to stay.

IGNAZIO = The problem is to stay, and in any case we always tell everything we have done, because we are very proud and grateful ….

PIERO = Do you have an itchy mustache?

IGNAZIO = No, it helps me to think. 😁

PIERO = Ah, ok !!

IGNAZIO = …… and we are very grateful for everything that has happened to us, but in recent years it has not been all roses and flowers, there are moments …..

VESPA = When was the most difficult moment?

IGNAZIO = There are moments in an artist’s career where difficulties come, in our case it was in 2014, when L’Universal did not …..

PIERO = Clearly there has been a change between one record company and another, and therefore there have been three or four months of “darkness”, but I remember that our manager was very good at hiding this from us, we didn’t live in that period of anxiety, he was:  ”Yes, yes, don’t worry, everything is fine, tomorrow I have a meeting”. Instead there was nothing.

IGNAZIO = This is to make it clear that yes, today it is very easy to get there, but maintaining oneself, building oneself, sacrifices, is all very important …

VESPA = When you were little I used to tell you:
“Guys down to earth”.

IGNAZIO = Absolutely ….

VESPA = Never mount your head, NEVER, when you think you are something more, already what you are is already a lot, always fly low low ….. (Vespa is referring to not being full of oneself)

IGNAZIO = I wanted to say it here.

VESPA = I don’t remember, what happened in Sanremo in 2015!

IGNAZIO = What happened?

VESPA = Bho! Let’s see for a moment! (the video of Grande Amore in Sanremo starts). (At some point the video loses audio due to a problem raised by the composer).

VESPA = (He turns to Ignazio).
Now you do it again (the final note and Ignazio does it)

(Ring the bell, enter Vittorio Storaro on the show.)

VESPA = We have to greet a great person: Vittorio Storaro.
Vittorio, it’s a great pleasure to have you here, thank you.
Three Oscars, please take a seat. You can take off the mask.

STORARO = Now it can be done, respecting the distances, the rules and the possibility of being careful, not only with the vaccine, but also with the distances and the embrace of well-vaccinated friends.

IGNAZIO = But that’s why I’m away from Gianluca, for nothing else. 😁 (he jokes)

GIANLUCA = He (Ignazio) is angry with me, he is angry with me master …

STORARO = He (Gianluca) has a great energy, it is the energy that we have that usually brings the affections too. But be careful not to lose it, with the distance.

IGNAZIO = In what sense?

GIANLUCA = You have to be careful.

IGNAZIO = No, no, I am like a magnet for him, we attract the two of us.

VESPA = Vittorio Storaro won three Oscars (photography award), 1980 for Frencis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, 1982 for Beatty’s Reds and Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor in 1988.

Beyond these awards, even we reporters who have approached the cameras a few times, looking at the light of Vittorio Storaro, already looking at it, we have learned something.

We learned what is beautiful and what is ugly, and what is beautiful, you did it. And this was truly a great lesson.

STORARO = All this comes from the great studies of Hippocrates who studied the elements of life, the natural elements that arrived on our body, on our organism.

We see light, not only with the eyes, but with the whole body, we are a sensitive plate. Light is visible energy and therefore it reaches us with a certain frequency, and the more it touches us, the more it excites us.

VESPA = So ….. what do you have to do with Vittorio Storaro? What have you done together?

PIERO = The moment before I met Storaro, I wasn’t sure whether to give him the you, the her, or the you or theirs, I wanted to give theirs (he means that he was in awe of respect for Storaro), but we have one thing in common, we were born on the same day, different year, the 24th of June ….

STORARO = We are Cancer (zodiac sign).

PIERO = Maestro Storaro, before being a great artist is a great person, he transmitted so much, so much wisdom, and so much art to us and we have to thank him because, you know, sharing his experience, his art, his being, with three boys of 27 or 28 years, it is not obvious, it does not happen every day.

VESPA = You have put together Morricone’s music, the images of Storaro, Oscar winner …

IGNAZIO = Yes, because we have been trying to collaborate with Maestro Storaro for years and we never managed to find a just cause, deep and sincere, with great significance and this year, that is last year, that moment has come, it has come  that idea.

VESPA = So let’s see this clip, Il Volo in the Caves …..

STORARO = Can I explain first a moment? Is useful.

VESPA = You’re welcome.

STORARO = It is true what Ignazio says, I had two Don Abbondio (he means two people who wanted to do this project … Don Abbondio is the character of the Promessi Sposi, a novel by Manzoni). Michele Torpedine called me, wrote to me every now and then to invite me to their concerts, he said, at least you know each other, it would be nice to make a video together.

While they were in Verona, I was in New York with Woody Allen, they went to New York, and I was always with Woody Allen in Spain or so on.

Then there was Maurizio Tosoroni who is the person in charge of the Frasassi Caves who asked me and Francesca (daughter of Storaro) who you know well, if we could conceive with modern technologies, and with a different creativity, that beautiful lighting they have the Frasassi Caves, which in this period of Covid were totally dark, totally closed and told me: “Why don’t we think about a project?”

The two Don Abbondio got together, they called me and I began to rehearse with lights, which we created together with Francesca related to the arts, because there was a phrase that struck me from our minister of culture, Dario Franceschini, that it is right to follow all the scientific warnings, medicines, vaccines, distances, masks, but if we add the energy, the creativity of the arts, maybe we can help so that everything can come back to life in a certain way.

VESPA = Of course, music and art give us hope, they help us to find the light.

STORARO = Do you understand? Also because we conceived the lights with Francesca, also linked to the muses, that is to the arts, and then I thought: “What can I do, with the trio Il Volo, inside the Frasassi Caves” and reminding me that they had told me that it was the fiftieth anniversary of the year in which three young speleologists descending from a hole with a rope, had discovered this incredible archaeological site among the best in the world, with the three of them (Il Volo) we reconstruct, not in a realistic way, but in a symbolic way, because they cannot go down with the suit and then sing, but in a tuxedo, and therefore in a symbolic way we have reconstructed the descent of the three , one at a time, first Gianluca, then Piero, then Ignazio, and little by little one descends, the light begins to rise …

VESPA = How wonderful! Let’s see it.

STORARO = Wait, I say one last thing. Only when Gianluca begins to sing, then Piero and then Ignazio, are together, they are like a seed that fertilizes mother earth and regenerates, and the trio becomes another trio, two trios, ten trios, one hundred trios, one thousand trios, none , one hundred thousand by Pirandello (Italian author). This was the creative energy of Il Volo.

VESPA = Well, let’s see it now. (The full video made in the Frasassi Caves begins.)

How wonderful!! Really what a treat !!
Beautiful beautiful beautiful.

STORARO= Nothing is random.
I have made 7 films with Ennio Morricone, and 10 films with Bernardo Bertolucci, and coincidentally this song comes from the film that the subject was written by Bernardo Bertolucci. I remember when I came here to say goodbye to Bernardo with you, and I told you about the possibility that I made him a promise, to restore and preserve all 10 films we made together, and I’m doing it now in the Cinecittà laboratory, with very modern technologies and with the possibility that these icons can last indefinitely.

VESPA = How wonderful!
Bravo, bravo Vittorio, also for this.

GIANLUCA=  I wanted to say that for us, our greatest goal is also to bring the beauties of our country. The Frasassi Caves, deserve to be, as they are already known all over the world, but even more so.

This was the perfect soundtrack, it was a wonderful experience in a magical place and living it with Maestro Storaro was even more so. It was truly an honor to be able to work together.

VESPA = Speaking of magical places, well, Santa Croce, in Florence (Notte Magica), but who would have thought it, direct by Placido Domingo.

PIERO = That was a great evening.

VESPA = Florence 2016 (The Magic Night video starts)

You didn’t have time to meet our friend Luciano Pavarotti.

IGNAZIO = Unfortunately not.

VESPA = In my opinion he would have put his hand on your shoulder, he was a person of absolute generosity who was really looking for, he was looking for new talents.

PIERO = This evening, the evening in Florence in Santa Croce, Tribute to the three Tenors, we had, in some way, the support from the three, because the maestro Placido Domingo directed the orchestra, but the Pavarotti foundation supported this idea because Nicoletta Mantovani (Pavarotti’s wife) gave the okay and said these very words: “The master would have liked this project”.

VESPA = Yes, absolutely yes.

VESPA = So, 2019, so these are the last things before Covid, at the Bolshoi Theater …

PIERO = To the Moscow Bolshoi

VESPA = La Traviata.

PIERO = Beautiful.

IGNAZIO = I was terribly ill, I had a fever that evening.

VESPA = Did you sing with a fever?

IGNAZIO = Yes, but I’m strong!

VESPA = Go, go. (The video of La Traviata starts)

So, (he turns to Piero) we went to New York together, we went to another big theater, the Metropolitan, do you remember?

PIERO = Yes.

VESPA = I don’t know if you remember, the room was empty, you and I were sitting next to you and I said to you:
“But when you grow up, what do you want to do?”
Was it your dream, does that still remain?

PIERO = Yes, in these two years, especially in the last 6 months I have studied a lot, I’m still studying, because you know very well how much study it takes. Just yesterday I did two and a half hours of lesson on Verdi, La Traviata.

VESPA = I have been to the Bolshoi with Riccardo Muti (well-known conductor), with the Friendship Concerts, and I assure you that if there is one who slaughters singers it was him.

PIERO = Mamma mia!

VESPA = Now it is no longer used, the masters have no desire or time, but before, a great singer always had his teacher who always kept him in the studio. You have to study a lot, every day.

IGNAZIO = I too, yesterday I did a two and a half hour session of the “tagliata (typical meat), I was very focused! (laughs) 😁😁😁

Sorry for the joke!

VESPA = He is always disheveled, undisciplined, the one who arrives late. Where is Gianluca!

GIANLUCA = This is what the two of them make you believe!

But it is nice that we are a group, but we continue to cultivate our passions, we respect and esteem each other, which is not obvious, as you know often groups are in competition …

VESPA = I know, you all never fight.!!

GIANLUCA = This is our great merit, because now 13 years together this is the beautiful thing.

Nice that Piero has his goals, for example, as I told you before, I am starting to approach the world of acting, trying to understand if one day, who knows, I would like to be an actor, but this enriches anyway, studying acting on stage , for a singer, it also helps you to express, to interpret songs better.

VESPA = So. (he turns to Piero) You say, we sang for the Pope, that’s enough, but no.

2019 Pope Francis, Panama (video of Panama starts)

In the video:

PIERO = His Holiness.

P + I + G = What a pleasure to see you again.

PIERO = This is our gift to you.

POPE = Thank you.

GIANLUCA = The dream and the desire to sing for him is coming true, we met in private audience last year and we sang for him an Ave Maria (Hail Mary) and here tonight we will sing it for him and for all the young people, we are truly honored.

POPE = Thank you.

PIERO = Can we take a picture?

POPE = Yes.

PIERO = A selfie like young people do.
(The Pope gives a souvenir to Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca)

IGNAZIO = We are grateful to you. See you later.

GIANLUCA = As you know, the power of Italian and Neapolitan music has reached overseas, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, but also Elvis Presley himself …..

IGNAZIO = The Pope has just passed, sorry, the Pope comments, ….

PIERO = But what does Elvis Presley have to do with Pope Francis, can you explain to me?

GIANLUCA = Oh well, first let’s talk about the Pope and then we want to give you a small gift.

VESPA = A small gift?

GIANLUCA = Yes, yes, a little present.

VESPA = Wait, first now I want to ask you something, we want to dedicate to Vittorio Storaro, who represented Italian art in the world, one of the most popular songs in the world, like this, here a cappella. (O Sole mio)

GIANLUCA = This is why I said, the great Elvis Presley interpreted the song in English “It’s now or never”,  do you remember that?

VESPA = Go !! (begins the a cappella song)

Well, we want to thank this magnificent group of romances, eight violinists, two cellists, thank you, thank you very much and congratulations, you are very good.
And then (to Il Volo) I greet you now …

IGNAZIO = We leave you with a great masterpiece, you know the story of Sacco and Vanzetti well. We are truly honored to be able to tell it even to an audience that does not know this story, to an audience that is not Italian and perhaps has not known the injustices that can exist in life. We are very proud to sing this song.

GIANLUCA = We would like to thank you again, we also thank the Maestro Storaro.

VESPA = Thank you.
(then he turns to Storaro) And what about you, beyond the restoration of Bertolucci’s films?

STORARO = Basically we’re still in the early stages, Woody sent me his fifth script to start, we had to do it first in New York, then we moved to France, now he’s looking to another country, Covid follows, depending on where it’s possible we’re going to do it.

VESPA = Good luck !!

PIERO = We would like to thank our audience for their love, support and support received over the years, thank you.

VESPA = And then: Sacco and Vanzetti! (start the song)

Really a nice chat between friends. You have noticed the masks and spacers, much more rigid in February than they are now.

Although it was not advertised, but was announced only by the tam-tam of the fans pages (incredible), this episode had very high ratings.

Congratulations as always, to Il Volo !!

But that of Porta a Porta was not the only appointment of Il Volo in this period, they were also in promotion Austria, on the TV show “Garden Party of the stars”.

Here they are.

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Very nice this video shot in Austria in front of the beautiful Grillenstein castle.

And then, live, during the show, they sang Ecstasy of Gold.

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Really a nice participation, let’s enjoy some pictures.

Then there was the announcement of the two Australian concert dates, finally !!

Reposted from @ilvolomusic :

Hello everyone,
We are very happy to announce that ticket sales are now open for our Australian concerts in Melbourne (October 18) and Sydney (October 24).

And finally, on May 12, I remind you that Il Volo is taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest.

For those who cannot follow them on TV, I propose you to follow them on you tube on the official ESC channel:   @eurovisionsongcontest.

Il Volo will sing GRANDE AMORE, but in a new version, which has just been heard.

The title is YOU ARE MY EVERYTHING and is in the English-Italian version and I find it beautiful !!

Here it is. ❤

What a thrill everything is ready, see you soon !!

Daniela

BREAKING NEWS!

Unfortunately, the news recently came that Gianluca is positive for Covid, so he will not be on the Eurovision stage. His voice will be recorded, only Ignazio and Gianluca will perform !!

I am very sorry for Gianluca, unfortunately you can never let your guard down with this Covid. Ignazio and Piero will do their best to represent Il Volo !!