We continue the review of small interviews, news and comments, as we approach the start of the Sanremo Festival.
In this video, Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio are asked to compare Capolavoro to a painting.
PIERO= If Capolavoro were a painting I would imagine a horizon.
GIANLUCA= ehhhhh….THE FALLEN ANGEL (painting by Cabanel), it probably could be.
IGNAZIO= He hurt himself? 😂😂
GIANLUCA= I know him, in fact, as his name is Cabanel.
IGNAZIO= A parachute (always referring to Capolavoro)
PIERO= (to Gianluca who is still looking for the painter’s name) Don’t think about it…
GIANLUCA= It is one of the most famous paintings in the world…
IGNAZIO= It was better that you said GUERNICA, okay, come on!
GIANLUCA= Ok, Capolavoro is a song that talks about how important connections are in life, and this feeling which is the engine of life itself, how suddenly, as if falling from the sky, there are people, there are situations that they can really save your life and make your existence better.
PIERO= It’s that strong feeling that comes suddenly and you realize that until the day before you experienced a great void.
IGNAZIO= Can I say something or did you say everything?😁
PIERO= Go…
GIANLUCA= It’s because there are three of us and we divide ourselves….
IGNAZIO= If I may say, it is that love that you feel for anything or anyone, therefore for a man, a woman, for a son, a father, a mother…..
GIANLUCA= A universal love…
IGNAZIO= A universal love and we compare it to the boom we hear when we feel love.
And then this announcement, which I think is satirical news, because on the video it says:
“VERY UNRELIABLE NEWS ABOUT SANREMO 2024”
I really admire the fact that our kids always want to have fun. 😁😁😁
GIANLUCA= Hi guys, we are Il Volo.
PIERO= (imitating Gianluca’s manner) Hi guys, we’re Il Volo.
IGNAZIO= I don’t know if you know, let’s give a spoiler, on Sunday morning, after the final, we will do a concert together with the LA SAL group in the square…..😁
GIANLUCA= THE SAD!! 😂
PIERO= LA SAL, LA SAL, but is it possible? 😂
GIANLUCA= LA SAD, sorry, guys, Ignazio is from another era…😂
IGNAZIO= No, because Sunday morning it will be LA SAL, however we will have a concert in the central square of Sanremo at 10.30 in the morning. We are waiting for you all there.
PIERO= Ignazio will be there alone! 😁
This is the punk group LA SAD that will be competing in Sanremo, it is famous for its songs with vulgar words that talk about drugs and sex. Evidently a concert with Il Volo is unthinkable, so it’s a joke. 😁
One of the members of LA SAD, the one with the green hair, is from Brescia and is 37 years old 😩.
What I attach below, however, is a short video that was broadcast on TG1, and talked about two Sanremo singers: EMMA and IL VOLO.
(I translate what our guys say)
Emma and Il Volo, two different emotions, two great victories in the history of the Festival (Emma also won a festival). In 2015 they were even together on that stage, although in different roles (Emma was presenter that year).
GIANLUCA= It’s as if it were the first time, we’re almost thirty years old, we’re growing up too.
G+I+P= CAPOLAVORO
IGNAZIO= Everything can be a Capolavoro, you will discover it by listening to the song.
PIERO= Here, can I book? I will introduce LA SAD. (This year the singers, on the evening that they are not competing, must also present other singers)
LA SAD= We are the new Il Volo!
GIANLUCA= Or Il Volo will be the new Il Volo of itself.
And this is a nice article already published in English.
Click Here to read the article
Reading the various Facebook pages, I found this comment from my friend Luce..
Luce is Sicilian, married for a couple of years and is now expecting her first child, Giosuè, whose birth is scheduled for February 7th, just the days of Sanremo, it will be her masterpiece……best wishes Luce, a hug. ❤️
“Universal Love, the one that is not only contained in a couple’s fairy tale, but expands to an infinite horizon of love towards those who suddenly arrive and change and illuminate our lives…
Poetry, not only that, hope towards something that brings good. What can I write about such depth of thought which is the essence and soul of the music of a group that always exceeds all expectations…
Yet here we are, still reading sentences that don’t describe them, that don’t reflect either their talent or their person.
And between one thought and another, a beat and a thousand in it, I follow our incomparable trio, also reading here and there the news relating to the Festival, the curiosity of listening and of this mysterious “different” or “2.0” increases who have been meditating for some time and letting us understand, regarding the beauty of the text and interpretation, I am sure they are unsurpassed, even just by reading two sentences and hearing them talk about it… many poor, confused, incompetent pen languages full only of gratuitous malice will not be able don’t recognize it… but let’s spread a quilt on this suitable for a winter night in Alaska.
I was very pleased that they have metabolised and decided to look forward, they have certainly always demonstrated their value by working, improving every day and walking with their heads held high, the best response to silence any unjust and undeserved offence. This increases in me the esteem, respect and great love I feel towards them. Chapeau! Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca! Sanremo is an opportunity, a showcase to show your artistic evolution and celebrate 15 years of career where everything started, that once upon a time that changed your lives forever… even if you don’t have any of the Festival need because your stage is now the whole world. In any case, you have already received the first truly worthwhile applause from the orchestra and the next ones will follow in flight… it cannot be otherwise… and we will be the first to jump from our seats clapping until our hands hurt.
And I, among a thousand and more thoughts, emotions that move as if on a swing that touches and caresses the sky, waiting or perhaps it would be more correct to write at the mercy of waiting for the most important and significant event of my life, of that arrival… my little one. ❤️
Here Piero and Gianluca were photographed leaving the Arcimboldi Theater on January 16th.
January 22nd was also Il Volo’s first day of rehearsals in Sanremo, where they are arriving at the Ariston Theatre, the rehearsals already done with the orchestra were not necessarily done inside the Ariston theatre.
IL Volo was welcomed with great enthusiasm.
Now the town of Sanremo is starting to see more and more the presence of singers.
But then it happens,to my great pleasure, that IMUSICFUN publishes an article with a series of questions to the well-known music critic Paolo Zaccagnini, on the topic of Sanremo and journalists’ report cards for singers.
And here’s what he said, and I will translate only the part of Il Volo.
Is everyone ready for February 6th?
If the musical ship is now ready to set sail, so are the controversies, it needs certain report cards from the first listens, which almost in unison rejected the song by Il Volo and Ricchi e Poveri.
Why does some of the press snub Il Volo?
It’s the usual acrimony towards those who are truly successful abroad. I read the pre-listening report cards… Some journalists go to Sanremo to be seen and then sell themselves better. It is the mirror of an Italy adrift where Luca Dondoni’s arrogance reigns supreme. To think that he used to DJ at Armani fashion shows…
I saw their podcast – PIECES: INSIDE MUSIC (by Andrea Laffranchi, Dondoni and Paolo Giordano) and I laughed a lot.
(These three journalists all gave below passing marks to Il Volo, one of them Andrea Laffranchi in 2019 was one of the journalists shouting against Il Volo.)
I was so pleased that someone, in particular an authoritative critic and not a simple journalist, spoke out in favor of Il Volo.
For the rest there are only 15 days until the start of Sanremo and the euphoria is rising!
I also want to give space to love and to a young couple who are currently floating above a cloud: Ignazio and Michelle. Sunday 21st January was a sunny day and our two lovers went to the beautiful Lake Como, here is their wonderful shot…..but how beautiful are they???
Daniela ❤️❤️
Credit to owners of all photos and videos.