I am happily retired. As a career I found myself in the business end of education. Spent most of my working life researching, developing and implementing a broad spectrum of local, state and national education programs. Other than some travel, my focus now is Il Volo and the Flight Crew. How lucky am I to have found such joy? I'm having the time of my life!
Oh, and I'll be a vegetarian when bacon grows on trees.
Dani, Emilia(and sometimes Daniela) will be working with Kelly to bring us a weekly “Off Stage” feature. You already saw the first one!
Jana and Leelee will be helping to edit, draft and post various articles. The two of them will also bring us“Il Volo Professional”, which are the guys professional singing engagements, interviews, etc. (You saw their 1st one yesterday) Daniela and Emiliawill assist them in this endeavor. Just in time for concert season too!
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Marie,will continue administrative duties which include writing, editing, drafting, scheduling, posting your stories, updating header photo’s, and etc.
Thank you so much volunteers!
We are renewed, refreshed and stronger than ever. What fun we are all going to have promoting and sharing the love of those marvelous Il Volo guys.
You could say that Gianluca Ginoble, 22, has been growing up on stage. One of the operatic pop sensations behind the hit trio Il Volo, Ginoble was a teenager when I first met him backstage before a concert in 2013. In those days, it really was a family affair, with moms in the wings grounding and guiding their talented kids in a world full of spotlights and temptation.
Now all in their 20s, the young men of Il Volo (Ginoble, Piero Barone, 24, and Ignazio Boschetto, 23) can travel alone, but they’re taking their family values and plenty of gratitude on the road with them as they embark upon a new world tour. I caught up with Gianluca Ginoble from Italy for my podcast where we discussed Il Volo’s U.S. tour launch, the power of family and the one staple the famous trio must always have in their dressing rooms.Il Volo’s 2017 world tour kicks off in March at the perfect venue—Radio City Music Hall. “We really can’t wait to come back to United States,” says Ginoble. “We are bringing our country through the music. The music—we always say that will never die because, as you know, it’s eternal. It’s the kind of music that Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, José Carreras and The Three Tenors, and also [Andrea] Bocelli used to sing since more than 30 years. And so, this is what we are trying to do—to follow the idea of what they did in the past, to bring opera and Italian music all around the world—also to the young generation.”Il Volo has done their part when it comes to narrowing the generation gap. “If you come to our show, you can see people from all the ages. Kids from 1 to 92,” emphasizes Ginoble proudly. It’s not unusual to see three generations filling concert halls for the Il Volo experience.While the team may be far from their homes in Italy, they are quick to embrace the U.S. component of their tour including stops in the Big Apple, Las Vegas and the Washington, D.C. area. “We share beautiful memories,” Ginoble says. “Especially in Las Vegas, because one of the shows that we did as special guests with Barbra Streisand (Ginoble was only 15 years old at the time.)…So that’s probably the best moment of our career— singing with her, it was really a dream come true.”Of course, Il Volo has scored some huge collaborations beyond Streisand, including their latest album with Placido Domingo—Notte Magica – A Tribute to The Three Tenors (Live). “It was really an honor to perform and share the stage with him,” says Ginoble.
As they prepare for another whirlwind schedule, does Il Volo have any traditions to keep them on track?
“The best thing to do before we sing, for me especially and for the three of us, is to have the support of the people you love. Because sometimes it’s hard when you’re on tour. Sometimes you feel sad, or you miss something, you miss someone, you miss everything about your home and your hometown.” Ginoble takes a nostalgic tone when he mentions missing family, and yes—the moms.“But anyway, we are growing up. We are starting to travel alone, and so to accept that we are growing up. But we do Skype, FaceTiming with our family, with our friends, and to keep us, you know, warm, and that’s the best thing to give us…the power to go on stage and do just everything we need to do.”So are there any diva-like dressing room requests from Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetta before an Il Volo concert?
“That’s very funny, you know, because two hours before we go on stage we eat pasta,” he says, laughing. “That’s very Italian. Sounds so Italian, I know. But you know why? Because pasta is very good for the throat. Because it like cleans your throat. It’s just plain pasta with no tomato—just pasta. We prefer spaghetti two hours before we go on stage…it’s good for the voice.” Sounds like great advice from great Italian moms. No room for divas, just pasta.
Listen to the conversation with Gianluca Ginoble on iTunes.
On February 15th Il Volo were guests of RTL102.5 in radiovision. They have sung live, but they showed a good 8 videos: They said that London will host Mario Biondi who sang with them in the House Party. There will be a zero date in Roccaraso Italy Abruzzo May 3 but Gianluca let slip that they are preparing something to aid earthquake for Abruzzo. They also said they will go to Kazakhstan, Romania, Bulgaria, Poland. They asked the boys as they do with families as they are often away and they said that when they want to return and I can go by families whereas they think young people who are forced to work to get away from home, go abroad and do not see the families for a long time, Piero Ignazio and Gianluca have said they admire about these guys. They also said that were not previously known in Italy because after TI LASCIO UNA CANZONE went abroad and were like three nerds, but then when they came back with the Vespa broadcasts have begun to have visibility and then of course Sanremo and the fact that they had recorded the unpublished pushed them to greater audience. In addition to Italian tour we have added a date in Ancona and also another date in Rome and maybe they said it could become easily Tormina 4 dates, jokingly said that the date more is for relatives of Piero. ~Daniela
Behold the participation of Il Volo to “Standing Ovation”.
In the first video the guys with Antonella joke because it’s Friday the 17th, we have this number brings bad luck, especially on Friday. Antonella says she does not believe in these things and the boys confirm but when she leaves them make their fingers crossed. In the transmission there are three judges, NEK you know well, Romina Power, which I know well as the wife of Albano and daughter of Tyrone Power. The third judge is Loredana Bertè, she is a good rock star, she did not mince her words and if something does not like it says in the face, but it seems to me that she was very glad of the performance of the boys, in fact, she sang with them. At the end of the GRANDE AMORE they speak a little of the American and European tour and the guys say that the better side when they return to their Italia. It ‘was a good performance and the guys were great as always.
