I’ll start by saying that this is the concert I personally attended on the evening of May 10th in Mantua at Palazzo Te, so I was eagerly awaiting this moment to relive the entire evening, which was beautiful, and to see what changes they had made compared to the live performance.
Seeing it again was a great emotion and I was able to relive step by step what really happened, yes because the editing differs very little from the real evening.
As always I attach both videos, the one from Mediaset, visible in Italy and the one from YouTube made by Il Volo En Clase that I always thank but that in Italy is not visible, so I hope that in one way or another you can see the whole concert.
CLICK HERE to view the concert on Mediaset
The first images of the evening open with Il Volo walking in the courtyard of Palazzo Te.
What you see behind Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca is the back of the palace itself, on the sides of the boys there are two large pools of water and at the end of the avenue opens the large lawn/garden of the palace, called Esedra (where they have placed all the seats). The bottom of the garden is closed with a series of beautiful arches arranged in a semicircular way, right in front of the arches there is the large stage for the performance.
While they walk, Gianluca reads some notes on Palazzo Te.
GIANLUCA= The splendid Palazzo Te in Mantua, was built in 1500 by Giulio Romano, a shining example of the excellence of Renaissance architecture.
PIERO= Beautiful!
GIANLUCA= Don’t miss the splendidly frescoed interiors.
Great artists such as Gianni Morandi, Antonello Venditti, Noemi, Fiorella Mannoia, Enrico Brignano, Lorella Cuccarini perform here……
IGNAZIO= But when?
GIANLUCA= In the second episode of TUTTI PER UNO VIAGGIO NEL TEMPO, the concert by Il Volo.
PIERO= But the second episode of TUTTI PER UNO is tonight!
GIANLUCA = Exactly, good, it says it here too, read, the Il Volo concert is starting soon…
IGNAZIO= Exactly, stop reading, let’s go on stage….
PIERO= See you soon at TUTTI PER UNO
IGNAZIO= (off camera calls Piero) Piero!
PIERO= Yes, I’m coming!!
The actual concert begins with the notes of the beautiful song THE FINAL COUNTDOWN chosen for the opening of the three evenings in Mantua. 🤩
After the beautiful performance, greetings to Mantua and the audience of Canale 5.
The first great guest of the evening is Gianni Morandi (81 years old), he has been in vogue since 1960, he was a boy when he started singing and is still active.
This performance was not recorded on day 10 but on day 8 during the first evening, in fact if you pay attention during some scenes you can see the rain.
The evening I attended the initial guest was Giorgia who we will definitely see next week.
Gianni Morandi begins by duetting with Ignazio singing the beautiful song GRAZIE PERCHÈ (1991).
He continues with Gianluca singing VITA (1988).
He ends with Piero singing the beautiful SE NON AVESSI PIÙ TE (1966). This beautiful song was also the live-motive of a film with the same title and interpreted by the same young Morandi and which had a huge success.❤️
The last verse of the song is sung by all four together and at the end Gianni Morandi says sympathetically:
“Guys, singing with you is beautiful, but guys, you have too much voice, it’s a disaster for us to keep up with you!” 😂🤣
Gianni usually takes a selfie with whoever he duets with and so tonight he takes a selfie with Il Volo and Piero makes everyone laugh because Gianni’s phone wasn’t in “airplane” mode and so it could ring at any moment! 😂
Gianni Morandi’s guest appearance ends with a sensational song from 1966, here in Italy it was a great success and I always thought it was a foreign song then translated into Italian, instead I discovered that it is an Italian song that was then translated into various languages. The title of the song is C’ERA UN RAGAZZO.
This protest song against the Vietnam War was subjected to musical censorship by RAI for being in opposition to the policies of a friendly country, the USA.
Its words are very beautiful and sad and so I also attach the translated text. It is a hymn to not making wars!! ❤️🕊️
There was a boy who like me,
Loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones
Traveled the world, came from
The United States of America
He wasn’t handsome, but next to him
He had a thousand women if
He sang “Help!” and “Ticket to ride”
Or “Lady Jane” or “Yesterday”
He sang: “Long live freedom”
But he received a letter
He gave me his guitar
He was called back to America
Stop with the Rolling Stones!
Stop with the Beatles, stop!
They told me go to Vietnam
And shoot the Vietcong
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta
There was a boy who like me
Loved the Beatles and the Rolling Stones
He traveled the world, but then he ended up
Waging war in Vietnam
He no longer wears long hair
He doesn’t play the guitar, but
An instrument that always gives
The same “ra-ta-ta-ta” note
He no longer has friends, he no longer has fans
He sees people falling down
He won’t return to his country
Now he’s dead in Vietnam
Stop with the Rolling Stones!
Stop with the Beatles, stop!
In the chest there is no more heart
But two medals or three
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta-ta-ta
It’s time for the first solo and it’s Ignazio who offers us the beautiful I WANT IT ALL (1989) by Queen, what power!! 👏😍
Here follows Piero’s beautiful solo on the beautiful song from Verdi’s opera TROVATORE (1853).
This was one of my dad’s favorite songs, he always sang it to me, and hearing it sung by Piero’s beautiful voice brought back so many fond memories. ❤️
Here follows a duet between Gianluca and the singer Noemi on a beautiful song by Battiato LA STAGIONE DELL’AMORE (1983). 😍
Beautiful duet and beautiful words of which I propose the first piece.
“The season of love comes and goes
Desires almost never age with age
If I think about how badly I spent my time
That will not return, will never return
The season of love comes and goes
Suddenly without realizing it, you will live it, it will surprise you
We have had opportunities
Losing them, do not regret them, never regret them
Yet another enthusiasm will make your heart beat
New possibilities to get to know each other
And lost horizons are never forgotten
The season of love will return
With fears and bets
This time how long will it last
If I think about how badly I spent my time
That will not return, will never return.”
At this point the co-host of the evening is introduced: Lorella Cuccarini (60 years old).
She is a very good and nice show girl, she achieved success in 1985 with the show Fantastico where she danced and sang the theme song SUGAR SUGAR and the dance, which became viral at the time, involved a hand movement that Ignazio continues to propose. Ignazio also takes the guitar to perform the song but also remains breathless!! 😂🤣🥰👏
Lorella Cuccarini activates the timer that stops time in the year 1898, the year of publication of the timeless and highly successful Il Volo O SOLE MIO. 😍
This is immediately followed by the beautiful SE TELEFONANDO (1966), Costanzo’s beautiful words set to music by Morricone and brought to success by Mina. 😍
The concert continues with another welcome guest and good singer-songwriter Antonello Venditti. With him Gianluca performs the beautiful song STELLA (1984). 😍
At the end of the song, Ignazio and Piero, whom Venditti calls “the little brothers of rock”, also arrive and all together they perform the beautiful NOTTE PRIMA DEGLI ESAMI (1984).
Lorella Cuccarini returns to the stage and there is a beautiful tribute to the very talented show girl RAFFAELLA CARRÀ, she was a very nice woman, self-deprecating and good at hosting and singing, a revolutionary woman, a model, an icon. Lorella and the guys remember the bob of her hair, famous because despite the moves of the showgirl the hair always came back in place and became very fashionable at the time and then they also remember the song TUCA TUCA (1971) which had a dance at the beginning censored because Raffaella danced with a top that therefore revealed the navel and the dance included moves where the partner touched Raffaella’s skin. Later it became famous when it was performed in an ironic way by Raffaella and the good actor Alberto Sordi.
The memory of Raffaella Carrà ends with the performance of RUMORE (1974), one of Raffaella’s songs performed by Il Volo and Lorella Cuccarini.
The concert continues with the beautiful song LA VITA (1968) presented at Sanremo by Shirley Bassey and proposed here as a duet between Piero and Fiorella Mannoia. 😍
This performance is also part of the first evening of recording, then edited differently.
At the end of the song Fiorella announces that she will perform a concert at Caracalla and among her guests there will also be Il Volo!
Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca reunited sing together the beautiful MISERERE, a song by Zucchero from 1990, and which receives a lot of applause. 🥰
Ignazio introduces the next guest, the singer-songwriter Marco Masini with whom Ignazio duets singing the beautiful song CI VORREBBE IL MARE (1990). 🥰
A song written by a very good Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti, his songs have made a generation sing.
I GIARDINI DI MARZO was written in 1972, I was a little girl then and I remember every word of this beautiful song. It is performed in a beautiful duet by Piero and Gianluca. ❤️
As I told you, I know this song very well and of course I sang it that evening. The cameraman of Canale 5 noticed us and filmed us, we are in a frame almost at the end of the song but you can see me clearly. I am in the middle, next to me my daughter-in-law’s mother and then my husband partially hidden by my arm. How exciting to see each other again, we are also part of the video of Il Volo, what an honor!! ❤️
It’s time for the comic figure of the evening and in this second episode the role has been entrusted to the comedian Enrico Brignano.
In the first sketch he appears impersonating an ancient Roman consul.
At the beginning he defends the Latin language that the guys say is a dead language, then he praises the glory of the past of ancient Rome, all to introduce the next beautiful song NELLE TUE MANI from The Gladiator (1998) sung wonderfully by Il Volo. ❤️❤️
Here is another beautiful song performed by our guys, the beautiful A CHI MI DICE, a success by Blue, released in 2003 and then also translated into Italian.😍
The talented Lorella Cuccarini returns to the stage and compliments our boys.
Lorella makes a speech about the music that accompanies films and that then becomes famous and then MANIAC is immediately named from the film Flashdance (1983).
Then the film Blus Brother is remembered from which the song EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY TO LOVE (1980) is taken.
Finally the beautiful film Grease from which the beautiful song YOU’RE THE ONE THAT I WANT (1978) is taken, briefly and nicely proposed by Lorella and Ignazio in the Italian version YOU ARE MADE FOR ME. 😍
The evening continues with a beautiful tribute to an Italian singer-songwriter known throughout the world thanks to his song Volare. He is Domenico Modugno, the tribute is made in solo by Gianluca who masterfully performs with his warm voice three beautiful successes by Modugno of which I briefly propose the translated beginning.
It begins with AMARA TERRA MIA (Bitter Land of Mine) (1974).
“Sun in the valley and sun on the hill
There is no one left in the countryside
Goodbye, goodbye, love
I’m going away
Bitter land of mine
Bitter and beautiful
Endless skies and faces like stone
Called hands now without hope
Goodbye, goodbye, love
I’m going away
Bitter land of mine
Bitter and beautiful”.
Then follows the iconic VECCHIO FRACK (Old tailcoat) (1955) that I loved to sing as a child even if the song is older than me.
“Midnight has come
The noises fade away
The sign fades away
Of that last café
The streets are deserted
Deserted and silent
A last carriage
Creaking goes away
The river flows slowly
Rushing under the bridges
The moon shines in the sky
The whole city is asleep
Only an old tailcoat goes”.
Finally the beautiful MERAVIGLIOSO (Wonderful) (1968)
“It’s true
Believe me it happened
At night on a bridge
I was looking at the dark water
With the damned desire
To dive down
Suddenly
Someone behind me
Maybe an angel
Dressed as a passerby
Took me away saying
Like this
Wonderful
But how do you not realize
How the world is
Wonderful
Wonderful
Even your pain
It may appear later
Wonderful
But look around you
What gifts they gave you
They invented you
The sea
You say I have nothing
Does the sun seem like nothing to you
The Life
The Love
Wonderful
The love of a woman
Who loves only you
Wonderful
The light of a morning
The embrace of a friend
The face of a child
Wonderful
Wonderful.”
It’s time for a virtual duet, Ignazio will sing a duet in Neapolitan with Pino Daniele on his beautiful song QUANDO (1991). This duet is amazing, well done Ignazio! ❤️
Ignazio introduces the song by reading this dedication:
“Pino, you were the soundtrack of many moments in my life, from the most melancholic to the happiest.
It’s been ten years since you left us, too soon.
I never had the chance to meet you personally but I want to thank you, because you managed with your voice and your music to make me see the world with your thousand colors.
I thought I’d remember you with one of your songs that is closest to my heart and tonight, with a little magic, I’ll feel closer to you.”
Another beautiful duet, but this time an opera aria, from the toast of Verdi’s Traviata (1853), the joyful LIBIAM DE LIETI CALICI, skillfully sung by Piero and the soprano Elisa Balbo. ❤️
It’s always a pleasure to listen again to the beautiful GRANDE AMORE with which Il Volo won Sanremo in 2015! ❤️
Lorella Cuccarini returns to the stage with whom Il Volo makes fun of the 80s for the exaggeration of hair and also of clothes. At the end a hypothetical image of Il Volo in 80s style is proposed. 😂
Then a song from that period sung by U2 is introduced and this time performed as a duet by Ignazio and Gianluca, the beautiful WITH OR WITHOUT YOU (1987). 😍
The timer marks a very particular year 1860 is the year of the unification of Italy.
To understand the gag that follows I have to tell you a little about Italian history.
Brignano plays Giuseppe Garibaldi who is considered the architect of the unification of Italy.
With the enterprise of the Thousand (that is, with the help of a thousand men called Garibaldini), he allowed the Mezzogiorno (south) to be united with Piedmont (north) in 1860, and therefore to arrive at the constitution of the Kingdom of Italy (1861).
Garibaldi’s exploits are also very well known in South America, in fact he is called the hero of two worlds.
In the gag our guys do not recognize Garibaldi who instead says he is very famous because every town has a square, a street or a monument named after him.
Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca are dressed as Garibaldini and carry the Italian flag and every time Brignano says the word “flag” in his speech, they start singing like this:
“And the three-colored flag has always been the most beautiful, we always want that we want freedom, freedom.”
In the end Brignano cannot speak because he is always interrupted by the singing of our guys and Brignano tells the orchestra not to indulge them or he will shoot!
A page of the Italian Risorgimento in comic form, at the end Brignano greets everyone saying: “Long live Italy always!” 😂🥰
It’s time for a wonderful song by Elton John from 1994 CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT, a song from the movie The Lion King, wonderfully performed by Gianluca.
During the song, two young and talented dancers from the Rome Opera performed. ❤️
This song was also not performed on the second night, but I think it was part of the third concert.
Gianluca’s words for the presentation:
“There are songs that are not just notes and words, but become traveling companions and the one I’m about to sing is one of those, it accompanied me as a child in the moments when I dreamed of being stronger, more confident, and when I constantly looked for confirmation, answers. I was a shy child, with his insecurities and his immense dreams and with time I understood that that shyness was not a limit but a silent force that protected me from arrogance and taught me humility.
Growing up my body changed, the world around me changed, but something remained unchanged, my soul, and inside me that child is still there and tonight I sing with him and this is CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT.”
It’s the most touching moment of the evening.
IGNAZIO = It’s one of those songs that we always want to dedicate to the people who unfortunately are no longer physically with us and we think it’s right this year for TUTTI PER UNO to dedicate this song to our Barbara who is no longer with us. (applause). 🙏
Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero are moved and raise their beautiful voices in memory of Barbara Vitali, to whom the poignant HALLELUJAH by Cohen (1984) is dedicated. ❤️
Another beautiful and challenging duet is that between Piero and Ignazio who sing the beautiful TU CA NUN CHIAGNE (1987) in Neapolitan language.😍
This time Piero surprises us with a solo in French, he has performed it only once in Japan, in Kyoto in 2022 at the Kiyomizu-Dera Temple: POURQUOI ME REVEILLER from the opera Werter 1892. 👏👏
Lorella Cuccarini returns to the stage for the final greetings, but before saying goodbye together with Il Volo she sings the beautiful song by Gino Paoli UNA LUNGA STORIA D’AMORE 1988. 😍
It’s also time for the last song of the concert.
Il Volo thanks the audience of Mantua and the audience of Canale 5.
The final song is taken from the latest CD of Il Volo: OPERA 2024. ❤️
In the photo Il Volo and in the background the beautiful paintings of Palazzo Te.🤩
The concert is over but I also offer you the summary video and photos of the rehearsals!!
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This concert has also been archived.
It was another beautiful evening full of beautiful songs, guests, laughter, love and so much talent.
The third and final appointment remains and it will once again be a special evening, because Il Volo never disappoints.
See you soon: Daniela 🤗
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