The preview of the evening begins with Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio in the rooms of the beautiful Palazzo Te and precisely the Sala Dei Giganti, a beautiful room completely frescoed, enveloping and astonishing, also notable the frescoed ceiling and the geometry of the floor. Splendid!
IGNAZIO= but guys, we’ve gone a thousand turns, right left….we’re lost!
GIANLUCA= Wait, look, look for a moment where you are. We are in the Sala dei Giganti of Palazzo Te, look at the frescoes, look at the perspective there, look at the chiaroscuro. (the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting)
PIERO= Yes, the perspective is fine, the frescoes, everything, but we have a concert to do guys, all the guests have arrived too.
IGNAZIO= The guests, let’s call the guests.
GIANLUCA= Call them, so they can admire them too!
PIERO= (to Ignazio) Giorgia, call Giorgia.
IGNAZIO= You don’t know how many times I’ve looked for her. (It’s a deliberate phrase because the chorus of Giorgia’s last song says: you don’t know how many times I’ve looked for you.)
PIERO= The Kolors (a band of three guys)
IGNAZIO= The Kolors are three, who knows who will answer…
GIANLUCA= We’re not in Ibiza, come on (the biggest hit of the Kolors in a chorus says: this is not Ibiza)!
IGNAZIO= Who can we call? Beppe Fiorello, Arisa, Vanessa Incontrada…..
PIERO= Don’t worry, we’ll get out of here somehow, see you soon at TUTTI PER UNO.
The concert starts with the wonderful THE FINAL COUNTDOWN by Europe, which we listened to all three nights as an opener! 🤩
The first great guest of the evening is introduced immediately, the very talented Giorgia.
She is one of the most appreciated and successful Italian female singers, also because she has a fantastic voice.
In 1995 Giorgia won Sanremo with the song “Come saprei”, her manager at the time was Michele Torpedine.
Last year she co-hosted one of the concerts TUTTI PER UNO.
This performance by Giorgia is part of the second evening I attended and in the editing it was placed in the third.
Giorgia begins by singing in duet with Gianluca her song ORO NERO (2016).❤️
She continues in duet with Piero on his beautiful song QUANDO UNA STELLA MUORE (2013)❤️
The duets end with Ignazio together singing the beautiful song by Giorgia DI SOLE E D’AZZURRO (2001) which reaches particularly high notes. Gorgeous!❤️
At the end of the duets:
IGNAZIO= But can’t you sing a little more low-key songs?
GIORGIA= In fact, I’m very happy to have finally found someone who gives me a hand and what a hand, and it’s beautiful to hear your voices on my songs, your beautiful voices.
GIANLUCA = Did we do well? Great responsibility to sing your songs.
GIORGIA= More than well, magnificently!
A video collage of some moments of Giorgia’s past year is proposed.
Then Piero remembers that the night before they had dinner with Giorgia and stayed until 2:30 a.m. laughing and joking, this to underline that there is a great friendship between them.
At the end Gianluca asks Giorgia to sing her last song that she presented at Sanremo this year, the beautiful LA CURA PER ME (2025), 😍 and together with Il Volo she performs the final chorus!
We continue in style with a splendid solo by Ignazio, the song is from 1975.
IGNAZIO= 1975 is the year in which it was released, I dare say it bluntly, one of the most revolutionary songs in the history of rock, you all know it.
The wonderful BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY by the Queen begins. ❤️
Wow, what a voice Ignazio, what a pathos-filled interpretation!
And on with another beautiful duet, this time it’s Piero with Arisa, a good singer that we have already seen together with Il Volo singing in the basilica of Assisi in 2013.
The song they propose is in Neapolitan, written and sung by Modugno, published in 1964, TU SI NA COSA GRANDE. What power of voices!! 😍
Piero’s words:
“I’m very happy, I’m for two reasons, the first is that I’m about to perform one of the most famous Neapolitan songs, and the second is that I’ll be able to do it with one of the sweetest and most elegant voices of Italian song.
Ladies and gentlemen, to TUTTI PER UNO this evening: Arisa.”
It’s time to call the evening’s co-host on stage. She is Spanish, but when she was little she moved to Italy (1999), she is a nice and beautiful presenter and also an established television actress: VANESSA INCONTRADA.
Vanessa performs a skit where she pretends not to know Il Volo and has prepared three indications to help her understand which of the three she is talking about.
Card 1 = He is a male singer, he is part of the group Il Volo, and he won the Sanremo festival in 2015 (this applies to all three) 😂😂
Card 2 = He is very elegant and always dressed in black. (this also applies to all three) 😂😂
Card 3 = He has a tenor voice and wears glasses (we finally recognize Piero) 😂🥰
The concert continues with Il Volo performing the ever-beautiful GRANDE AMORE (2015). 😍
Il Volo continues together interpreting the ever beautiful and timeless song written by Dalla in 1986: CARUSO 😍
I’ve heard many versions of this song sung by various singers, but the way Il Volo performs it is wonderful!
The sweetest moment of the evening has arrived, Ignazio reads some words he wrote dedicating them to his baby on the way, Gabriele.
“You know, many of you know that I will soon become a father (applause), it has always been my desire to be a father.
But before being a father my desire was really to be able to meet my other half, and it is not easy.
Then when you find yourself meeting her, wanting to share your whole life with her, you get married, and there are a lot of married people here tonight, right? (applause) You have not regretted it, have you?
Here, I think that being a dad is a great gift, it is a great fortune and I will succeed, it will be beautiful, I am really excited and I thought of writing a little letter that I will take and read if I manage to finish it, and it is short too……and it says like this:
My dear son, (applause) I don’t know what it will be like to receive the most precious gift that life will give me, I don’t know what it will be like when I am too far away to wake you up in the morning to tell you that I love you.
And I don’t know what it will be like when you take my hand and with your sweet eyes and your sweet voice you will call me dad!” ❤️💙
Another guest enters, she is Alessandra Amoroso, a good Italian singer who shares the same joy as Ignazio for the arrival of a baby, she will soon be a mother.
Together they sing a beautiful song by Stevie Wonder: ISN’T SHE LOVELY released in 1976. 😍
Also on the evening of the concert I attended, this beautiful introduction by Ignazio to the song was made but he sang it solo and not as a duet with Alessandra.
While they sing, Alessandra Amoroso’s growing belly is evident, she also says that hers will be a girl and will be called Penelope and states that she has only one week of gestation difference with Michelle. The happiness of Ignazio and Alessandra who will be future parents is evident!! Congratulations! 💙🧡
Ignazio jokingly says that when he found out his baby was a boy he said to Alessandra: “You see, I’m making you your boyfriend, eh. (meaning Penelope). A good match, a good boy, raised well, from a good family with good values, and then we also get along, so!!”😂😂
At the end Alessandra Amoroso also sings her new song COSE STUPIDE (2025) 🥰
It’s time for Gianluca’s first solo, who with his warm and deep voice performs a beautiful song by Battiato E TI VENGO A CERCARE (1988) 🥰
Gianluca’s words: “Franco Battiato taught me that the invisible saves the world, that the human mind has limits and only by entrusting ourselves to what cannot be explained with reason, such as music, poetry, love, can we get closer to the sacred.
And love for me is not possession but freedom, because it changes us, reflects us and reveals us.
Battiato knew how to sing it like few others, elevating it to the divine and in his words I see myself.
I see my own need… (now he quotes some words from the song) …. and I come looking for you because in you I see my roots, because I need your presence to better understand my essence.
And this evening I want to pay homage to him because today more than ever we need to wake up, to open our eyes and our hearts and start looking at reality with more truth, with more beauty, but above all with more love.” ❤️
It’s time for another duet, this time it’s Piero who with great honor introduces the talented flautist Andrea Griminelli with whom he will perform the beautiful Neapolitan song brought to success by the tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano in 1953 DICITENCELLO VUJE.
Amazing 🥰
GIANLUCA= And now let’s take a trip not only back in time but also to a distant place that we know very well, Mexico.
IGNAZIO= In 1940 a song was born that entered everyone’s heart, not only for the splendid melody but above all for its intense sensuality.
The three guys take their places, Ignazio on the guitar, Piero on the piano and Gianluca on vocals, what a marvel to see them engaged in these different roles, I like them very much and together with Vanessa, who is called on stage, they sing BESAME MUCHO. ❤️
Now Beppe Fiorello enters the scene, he is the brother of Fiorello (Rosario) that we are used to seeing. Beppe is a very good actor and appreciated in Italy.
He is entrusted with the presentation of the next song.
“Good evening everyone. Here we go, good evening, now I’m going to tell you a story.
1964 is the year in which a song by Simon and Garfunkel that I love very much was composed: THE SOUND OF SILENCE, I’m sure you all know it.
The first verse is one of the most famous incipits in the history of rock: – Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again- a poetic but also disconcerting phrase, – Welcome darkness, my old friend –
Paul Simon composed this song when he was only 21 years old, he wrote it in a single night sitting on the floor of his room completely in the dark, and to fill the silence of that darkness there were only the strings of his guitar.
He explained that with those words he didn’t want to make proclamations, no, he was just trying to explain in a simple way the alienation of kids his age, the loneliness they had inside, the difficulties those young people had in relating to the world.
– I saw ten thousand people, maybe even more, who were talking without talking, who were hearing without listening, who were writing songs that no voice would ever share and none of them dared to disturb the sound of silence.
SOUND OF SILENCE is a song from 60 years ago, we know that, and yet I believe that its cry of solitude is still very current, unfortunately I would add, for the many boys and girls of today, who live their great efforts in total silence, perhaps because there is no one to listen to them.” 👏
Il Volo performs the beautiful THE SOUND OF SILENCE.❤️
Another guest arrives, it is the good singer Brunori Sas, with him Gianluca performs LA CANZONE DEI VECCHI AMANTI (1967), a song by Jacques Brel, here sung in the Italian version by Battiato.
At the end the last verse Gianluca and Brunori sing it in French. 😍
It’s time for a young Italian singer: Stash (actually he’s 35 so he’s older than our guys) who is part of a very well-known trio in Italy, The Kolors.
Ignazio says that he and Stash are great lovers of Pino Daniele, of whom, together, they perform A ME PIACE “O BLUES” (1980). 🥰
Then Ignazio leaves the stage and the other two members of The Kolors enter and the group performs a medley of their most famous songs.🥰
PRONTO COME VA (2025)
TU CON CHI FAI L’AMORE (2025)
ITALODISCO (2023)
Another sweet and emotional moment, it is 2010 and a catastrophe arrives in Haiti, in support of the hard-hit population a large group of singers including our then little Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio, brings back to the success WE ARE THE WORLD USA FOR AFRICA of 1985 which this time becomes WE ARE THE WORLD FOR HAITI.
A photo of the singers, including Il Volo, is also projected.
Here the song is performed by Il Volo with the support of the children’s choir of Chiari (Brescia).
Moving and beautiful performance, how sweet it was. 😍
Now it’s time for a good singer that we know well, she was competing in Sanremo this year and on the duet night she wanted Il Volo with whom she sang The Sound Of Silence. CLARA enters the stage and in a duet with Gianluca performs YOU ARE THE REASON (2018) 🥰
Piero calls Vanessa Incontrada on stage who kindly gives Piero lessons in Spanish pronunciation.😁
It’s time for a solo by Piero who performs the very well-known romance from La Tabernera del Puerto (1936): NO PUEDE SER.
Always nice to hear this song with Piero’s splendid voice! 😍
Beppe Fiorello returns and together with Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero they give life to a moment in which they talk about certain gestures, certain moments that have become a must in films.
At the beginning, Beppe kindly wants to say something off the set list, and says that from backstage he heard the voices of Il Volo proposing songs of a certain importance but performed with extreme ease, with great naturalness, congratulations!
The game that Beppe Fiorello proposes is “time in cinema”.
How many gestures in cinema have remained indelible, explains Beppe Fiorello, for example they immediately recall the legendary movement that made Charlot immediately recognizable!
Then he remembers the run on the steps of Rocky.
Then he remembers the special movement of Spider-Man who throws the cobwebs.
Then he asks Gianluca and Piero to recall the legendary embrace of Jake and Rose on the Titanic. Piero asks to play Rose while Gianluca is asked to play the part of Di Caprio and Ignazio has to do the soundtrack.
Then he remembers a scene from The Godfather that caresses her cheek and the legendary dance of Uma Thurman and John Travolta in Pulp Fiction and all four perform some movements of the dance.
Finally he repeats the movement of Tony Manero that by now we all know in the dance of Saturday Night Fever. 😂👏
The concert continues with two beautiful interpretations made by Il Volo.
The first is the timeless UN AMORE COSÌ GRANDE (1976).🥰
And the second is GRANADA (1967), performed in three different ways by Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio.🥰
Both songs, Un Amore Così Grande and Granada were brought to success by the talented Claudio Villa!!👏
Vanessa Incontrada reads a presentation that talks about time…. “time is the heart of music”…..
All this to introduce Gianluca’s next solo: C’È TEMPO (2003) by Ivano Fossati.
Well done Gianluca who gives space to the beautiful songs of Italian singer-songwriters! 🥰
Another solo, this time it’s Ignazio’s turn to give voice…and what a voice…to two beautiful songs brought to success by Bon Jovi:
ALWAYS (1994) ❤️ LIVIN’ ON A PRAYER (1986) 🥰
What a marvel!
A beautiful duet awaits us now with Piero and Mario Biondi. Piero tells how it was written, how this song was born.
I must say that Piero and Mario were able to use different voices and styles on the beautiful song by Sting (The Police): ROXANNE (1978) 🥰
And now a timeless success that we always listen to with pleasure performed by the three beautiful voices of Il Volo: MY WAY (1969) 🥰
Another beautiful duet, Gianluca says:
“Every time has its songs and then there are songs that have no time”.
Gianluca with Piero sing the beautiful song written and performed by Renato Zero: IL CIELO (1978) ❤️
The concert continues with another beautiful classical duet, NOTTE ‘E PISCATORE (1995) performed by the powerful voices of Piero and Ignazio. 🥰
We have reached the end of the concert. Vanessa Incontrada returns to greet the audience of Mantua and Canale 5 and Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio greet her by paying homage to her with the beautiful HISTORIA DE UN AMOR (1955) ❤️
The concert is over Il Volo bids farewell with final greetings and with PER ASPERA AD ASTRA ❤️
Finally a final recap, the images of the Aftershow. 🥰
What can I say, another beautiful concert that closed a trilogy of successes, wonderful songs and good guest singers.
Elegance, friendliness and cheerfulness, even the newspapers and the comments speak well of this type of entertainment and of the fact that Il Volo did not rest on its laurels but continued on its path with great success.
And the voices of our dear Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, always at the top. This time too they made us dream and the television ratings rewarded them.
Many newspapers talked about it but I really liked one article in particular and I will propose it to you translated in the next few days.
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.
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!!
It is the first of the evenings of Canale 5 where Il Volo will present the concerts TUTTI PER UNO – VIAGGIO NEL TEMPO, recorded in Mantua at the beautiful Palazzo Te.
There is a lot of anticipation on the part of the television audience to understand if, this time too, the ratings will be the maximum of the evening.
I am also ready to enjoy the evening, I did not want to watch the numerous fan videos on purpose even if I was very curious, I tried to maintain the surprise effect as much as possible.
Now that I have seen the entire concert I can say that Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca were as always not only good but also very professional, they entertained and sang with many guests, always putting them at ease and never overwhelming them, like good “hosts”.
I was truly amazed to see the pouring rain, reminding me of my experience two years ago.
Beautiful scenic settings projected on the background of the exedra of Palazzo Te, bright lights have scratched the evening animated also by a beautiful full moon.
A large classical orchestra with the introduction of a rock element (guitars and drums) and a large choir directed by Maestro Marcello Rota and on the piano the inevitable Maestro Grani.
A very high expectation that was as always respected by the skill of our Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio: Il Volo!!
But here is the video of the evening.
I propose both the one from Mediaset that I know is not visible in some foreign areas and the video from YouTube that is not visible in Italy. I hope that everyone can see this beautiful concert.
The warm and always perfect voices of Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero, sweet and sensitive in the heartfelt moments, high and untouchable in the moments of greatest impact, certainly did not disappoint anyone, but as always delighted those who listened to them enraptured.
Step by step I will explain and list the various songs, translating things roughly.
If you want some particular translation let me know without problems.
Enjoy the viewing!!
English subtitles can be activated on the following YouTube video.
A really exciting start with a unique play of lights, Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca enter to the powerful music rock of Europe THE FINAL COUNTDOWN, spectacular!!👏
After the initial greetings to the audience, the thanks to Canale 5 and the hospitality of Palazzo Te in Mantua, the guys tell that the show will also be a journey through time marked by the timer in the background that will decree the year of the song performed.
You hear some guitar chords and the first big guest is introduced: Eros Ramazzotti!!
Eros starts immediately by performing his beautiful song UN’ALTRA TE, him and his guitar, at the end of the exedra, after the audience and at the beginning of the Palazzo. (This performance was recorded on the third evening but in the editing it was inserted in the first concert). 🥰
Eros Ramazzotti is called on stage by the guys. Eros and Il Volo had already sung together years ago. Eros is a good singer-songwriter, his songs are very beautiful and at this point three beautiful duets are born.
Eros sings with Piero ADESSO TU (1986). 🥰 With Gianluca he sings SE BASTASSE UNA CANZONE (1990).🥰 With Ignazio he sings PIÙ BELLA COSA (1996).🥰
Wonderful songs from my youth!!!
Finally, before saying goodbye, Eros sings just one last beautiful song of his: UNA STORIA IMPORTANTE (1985)
It’s time for a duet between Piero and Ignazio on a beautiful song by Albano. There are very few singers who can sing this song with very high notes, compliments to Ignazio and Piero: È LA MIA VITA (2007) 👏👏
It’s the first solo and it’s Gianluca who performs amazingly on the beautiful song by Colplay VIVA LA VIDA (2008). Bravo Gianluca!👏
It’s time to introduce the female figure who will be the co-host of the evening, the time timer stops on 2009.
PIERO= 2009, it reminds me of a very important date, I even put it in my passport.
GIANLUCA= Maybe it reminds you of something too, I would call it year zero because it’s the year in which the three of us met, the year in which our story together began.
IGNAZIO= We can say that it was born in the studios of TI LASCIO UNA CANZONE (Rai 1), we were very young and none of us would have expected that our life would have completely changed from that moment.
PIERO= Gentlemen, if we have been together for 16 years it’s also her fault.
She is a person to whom we owe a lot, we must thank her and be eternally grateful, she is a great friend, she has always been with us, at our side with text messages on the phone but she has always been there.
GIANLUCA = at TUTTI PER UNO we have the honor of having with us tonight:
G+I+P= Antonella Clerici.
Antonella enters and after the initial greetings, Antonella expresses her emotion and honor of being on stage together with Il Volo.
Then an image of TI LASCIO UNA CANZONE is projected and there is laughter and also memories of how our three guys were at the beginning.
Antonella remembers that Piero was the most serious, Gianluca the dandy and Ignazio the troublemaker and they discover that the three of them are still the same and she can’t believe that Ignazio is now about to become a father.
Antonella confirms her pride in following the various stages around the world of her three children, like a second mother and also remembers that in 2015 when they showed up at Sanremo she called the host of the event saying that Il Volo would surely win and in fact it was so.
At this point Il Volo dedicates to Antonella the always beautiful victorious song: GRANDE AMORE ❤️
Let’s move on to a beautiful song that is part of Il Volo’s repertoire: L’IMMENSITÀ, performed at Sanremo in 1967. 🥰
A short comic moment follows, with Antonella showing old photos trying to make comparisons with our guys. Ignazio is compared to a gladiator. Piero to a scholar. Gianluca to the Sun King! And then a photo of our three guys with long 80s style hair is shown and at the end Ignazio tries to follow in Michael Jackson’s steps. 🤣
Now it’s time for a young guest singer who will perform a duet with Gianluca, she is Gaia and together they duet on the beautiful song L’APPUNTAMENTO (1970), very sweet Gianluca and Gaia!! 🥰
And now it’s time for a great guest, the talented singer-songwriter Gigi D’alessio. He is also a great friend of our kids.
Gigi starts with a beautiful duet with Ignazio, with whom he sings the beautiful NON DIRGLI MAI. (2000) 🥰
Gigi continues by recalling that he also knew the first years of Il Volo when they were very young. Gigi is also a great friend of our kids and they say that he is a special person.
They all perform Gigi’s beautiful song QUANTI AMORI (2004) together and at the end of the performance Gigi talks about a project in favor of Sicilian children. Great!!! ❤️
The concert continues with the song by Pino Donaggio from the Il Volo repertoire, IO CHE NON VIVO (1962). When I hear this song I can’t help but sing! 😍
Now it’s a very sweet moment, on stage there is a solo by Piero who will perform FUNICULÌ FUNICULÀ (1880) and will be accompanied by the very good children of the San Bernardino choir of the city of Chiari.
Let me say that Chiari is a town in Brescia, right near Roncadelle where I live, also the whole orchestra and the adult choir are from Franciacorta which is also an area of Brescia, a great pride of mine!!
The little children are very good with Piero who is very sweet with them. ❤️
Now the comic character of the evening is introduced: Giorgio Panariello who plays a man from the future. With sympathy and many jokes there is a brief comic moment with a space suit that should disappear on command but that doesn’t work.
Finally Panariello introduces the beautiful song by David Bowie performed by a very talented Gianluca reading these beautiful words:
“It was 1972, the world was in pieces, a bit like today. A boy turns on the radio and hears a voice coming from space, it was the voice of a man, a man of the stars, a good alien who doesn’t want to invade but who wants to talk, wants to dialogue.
The alien says – guys you are not alone, there is something out there, there is hope out there.
David Bowie didn’t just give us a song, but a simple, revolutionary message in a time of uncertainty, to tell us that even if the world out there seems gray, there will be a starman ready to tell us that there is still a future.”
STARMAN (1972) 😍
It’s time for another special guest: Fiorella Mannoia, she is a good interpreter with a truly unique voice, she is 71 years old and together with Ignazio she will duet singing the beautiful song by Vasco Rossi from 1996: SALLY.
A wonderful duet! ❤️
And now Il Volo with the beautiful song brought to Sanremo 2024: CAPOLAVORO 🥰
It’s time for a solo, this time it’s Piero who with great professionalism and skill performs the beautiful romance from Tosca: E LUCEVAN LE STELLE ❤️
Giorgio Panariello returns and with him the comic moment of the evening.
As a man from the future, Giorgio brings on stage three innovative musical instruments that are in use in the future and with which Il Volo must get to know because the future concerts will be held on Mars and that is why Katy Perry has already gone to explore the locations suitable for her next live!! 😂😂
Panariello finally asks the guys to try the tools of the future that he brought.
He makes Gianluca try SPHERE which is like a big transparent helmet so that the solar wind doesn’t mess up your hair. Obviously when Gian sings nobody hears anything. 🤣
He makes Piero try the VOICE EXPANDER, but in the end it sounds like a vacuum cleaner tube and Panariello says that at the end of the performance the stage is clean! 🤣
He makes Ignazio try the VIBRAVOX which is used to obtain the vibrato. Needless to say, Ignazio has a lot of fun using it.🤣
In the end Panariello makes the whole audience sing VOLARE using the throat vibrator!! 😂😂😂
All very funny indeed, well done Giorgio Panariello. 👏
After the laughter, the show continues with another welcome guest: MASSIMO RANIERI.
Gianluca and Massimo Ranieri perform a duet on his beautiful song MIA RAGIONE (2020) 🥰
Massimo Ranieni’s voice, despite his age (74 years) is still really strong, congratulations.
At this point Piero, Ignazio, Gianluca and Massimo let loose on a great success by Massimo Ranieri: SE BRUCIASSE LA CITTÀ (1970) I think all of Italy sang it that year.
Furthermore, everyone mentions the movements made back then on that song, too strong!! ❤️
It’s time for a beautiful song by the group CCCP from 1980, later brought to success also by Gianna Nannini, the title is AMANDOTI and Piero performs it with the talented singer Malika Ajane. 🥰
Full speed ahead with an opera aria by Verdi, sung by Il Volo with skill and irony.
The introduction with Antonella Clerici is also done in a comical way.
I remind you that in Rigoletto, this aria is performed in the last act by the Duke of Mantua: LA DONNA È MOBILE (1851). 😍
It’s time for another solo by Gianluca. In the presentation, Gianluca with Antonella, explain that certain songs that remain in history, are born by chance.
This is what happened for this beautiful song by the Beatles. The words were thought up by Paul Mc.Cartney dedicated to Julian, John Lennon’s little son who was sad about his parents’ separation. Later the name Julian was replaced by Jude, and that’s how the beautiful song HEY JUDE (1968) was born, here performed with great skill by Gianluca. 😍
Listening to this beautiful song you all must sing, its words are known all over the world. Written in 1965 and brought to success by Jimmy Fontana, Il Volo sings: IL MONDO 😍
It’s time for a very important guest, he is a great friend and supporter of our guys.
The age advances but the class is intact and the very good tenor PLACIDO DOMINGO, applauded performs in duet with Piero, in French, the beautiful aria AU FOND DU TEMPLE SAINT written by Bizet in 1883.
I must say that Piero holds and conducts this beautiful aria very well, bravo! 👏
Domingo always has nice words for our guys that he always remarks with great affection.
Now Il Volo will sing NESSUN DORMA, the beautiful aria from Turandot and written by Puccini in 1926.
Exceptional conductor Placido Domingo. 👏
The evening continues with a solo by Ignazio. The sweet song was written and brought to success by the talented Mia Martini in 1982: E NON FINISCE MICA IL CIELO
Ignazio performs it with great emotion. 😍
The following song was written and sung with great vigor, by Riccardo Cocciante in 1978.
Later a much sweeter version was performed by the singer Rino Gaetano and it is precisely this version that Piero and Gianluca will perform in this beautiful duet. This song was sung only once by Piero in a live radio broadcast and I must say that everyone immediately liked it: A MANO A MANO ❤️
And here they are all three reunited, our talented Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio who perform with great skill IL MARE DEL SILENZIO presented at Sanremo in 1968 in a duet by Tony Del Monaco and Dionne Warwick. Stupendous! 😍
This next song has become the soundtrack of a beautiful film, we know it very well by now because it is part of the repertoire that is usually sung by Il Volo, but it is always a pleasure to listen to it again, in this case in a duet by Ignazio and Gianluca: UNCHAINED MELODY (1955) 😍
The talented Massimo Ranieri (74 years old) returns to the stage and performs one of his beautiful songs presented this year at Sanremo 2025: TRA LE TUE MANI UN CUORE👏
But how good ABBA were, I think everyone knows them and Ignazio thought of performing a beautiful solo, challenging and full of impact. WE WINNER TAKES IT ALL (1980). Bravissimo Ignazio!! ❤️
We are almost at the end of the evening and there is a very sweet moment to say goodbye to Antonella who immediately takes the opportunity by entering the stage, to bring a gift to Ignazio for Gabriele, a nice bib on which is embroidered TI LASCIO UN BAVAGLINO, ZIA ANTO, (I leave you a bib, aunt Anto) how sweet.
Then the boys make Antonella sit down and dedicate to her the beautiful song by Aznavour SHE, written in 1974, sung here in the Italian version UGUALE A LEI.
Antonella deeply moved cannot hold back the tears. ❤️
Like all good things, this concert has come to an end. And what better way to end with the beautiful AD ASTRA. (2024)
Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero did a great job, they spent a lot of energy for a beautiful concert.
Many songs were performed, many of which are not part of the usual repertoire of Il Volo.
It was a celebration of music because space was given to recent songs and ancient arias, with mixed musical tastes, from pop to rock to classical and all well performed.
When the artists are of the caliber of Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero it is a great satisfaction and pride to be able to attend one of their live concerts, because what you see on TV is what you see and hear live, without tricks, without deception but only skill.
The television ratings were once again the highest of the evening, once again rewarding the skills of Il Volo.
Now the second concert awaits us, the one I attended.
See you soon: Daniela 🤗
A video and some nice photos of the rehearsal and concert moments.
Come with me to three Il Volo concerts: Florence – Summer tour 2024, Prague – Tutti per uno tour 2024, Florence – Ad Astra tour 2025
Dear Flight Crew members and readers,
You don’t know me because I have never commented or interacted with anyone here, but I have been visiting this site for some time … I found this amazing site because I was looking for a translation of an article. And since then, I’m frequently coming here and checking how well (or not) I understood an article, an interview, or a video in Italian.
My name is Klára, I’m from the Czech Republic and live with my cat, Mr. Paw, in a small town near Pilsen – the city of beer. I’m a translator, I translate mostly from German into Czech and vice versa. I love reading, travelling, cats, figure skating and, of course, Il Volo.
I heard about Il Volo first when I was listening to a song by Andrea Bocelli on YouTube and the next suggested video was his message to Gianluca in Ti lascio una canzone. That was maybe eight years ago; I googled and found out that Gianluca was part of a musical group. Then I listened to some songs, read some interviews… My interest sparked again around 2020 when Italian pair skaters Rebecca Ghilardi and Philippo Ambrosini skated their free program to Grande Amore. And since then, I wanted to attend a concert in person.
Happy in Milano
As everyone here, I also love reading all the wonderful recaps and summaries of concerts and reports from people who were there in person. And even though it’s not really the most recent event, I thought that you might be interested in reading about three Il Volo concerts I have attended.
I want to share my excitement, recount some memories from the travels (from the point of view of someone who’s learning Italian) and I hope this article conveys how much I like Italy and Il Volo.
I’d like to take you with me back in time to Florence, Prague and to Florence again and show you the three concerts I have attended; show you the places, tell you how adventurous or not it was to get there, which songs stood out for me, which solos I loved the most, what happened at the soundcheck etc.
I have to admit I don’t have many photos of the concerts… But we could read here amazing reviews of the concerts with many videos and photos attached already, so I hope you won’t mind that this text contains so few pictures.
How it started
It all started last year in spring.
Before that I had watched Il Volo in videos on the internet from time to time… Then I had bought a ticket for the concert in Prague in 2023 (their first concert in the Czech Republic) but in the end I couldn’t go because my grandpa was ill. Fortunately, the guys decided to return in October 2024, I bought a ticket early in spring… and then, as I said, it started!
In anticipation of the concert in Prague, I was watching a lot of videos from earlier concerts and bits of interviews and realized (which wasn’t that big of a big discovery) that in Prague the guys were going to speak English – and that’s great because it’s certainly the language most people there would understand… But I’m a translator, love languages, challenges, and above all, I love Italy. At that time, I had been learning Italian for a while and just urgently felt that I needed to see the boys in Italy, in their home country, speaking their native language even though my Italian was quite basic.
And once you decide to do something, you find more and more reasons why you absolutely have to do it, right? 😉
Apart from Italian and Italy, my main reason was that I also wanted to hear Gianluca sing La cura and was a bit worried he wouldn’t sing it outside Italy. So, I spontaneously bought a ticket for a concert in Florence (Pratolino) for July 2024… And then I was hooked. 😊
Florence/Pratolino: At home under the moon (22nd July 2024)
The whole trip was a 100% Italian experience. It was so hot – 38°C! A friend of mine very kindly invited me to stay with her for a few days before going to Florence for the concert… I hopped on a bus in Prague and about 20 hours later I met my friend. We went to the sea, visited the San Galgano monastery and Siena, cooked pasta with home-made basil pesto, screamed Il Mondo and Grande Amore while she was driving and I was trying to read the map, and the day before the concert we went to the theatre in Siena for Donizetti’s opera Don Pasquale, sort of a starter before the main course. 😉 And then, finally, I went to Florence.
Siena, sea, opera in Siena, San Galgano
Place: Florence/Pratolino
The summer concert in Florence was part of the Musart festival that was for the first time in its nine-year old history taking place in Parco Mediceo di Pratolino. I bought a ticket for the concert in Florence and then was very surprised when all pieces of information were talking about Pratolino. ‘What’s that? What’s going on?’ I thought as I repeatedly received emails about limited parking possibilities and instructions on how to get there by car. (As if I had an. 😉) And so, I discovered that Pratolino is about fifteen kilometres away from the city centre of Florence and that it was possible to get there by public transport. But going back? There was no public transport that late in the evening.
Fortunately, I visited the website of the festival and learned what ‘navetta’ meant. Shuttle buses! Indeed, there was a special train going from Florence to Vaglia and from there shuttle buses were going to Pratolino.
In reality, it was a bit more complicated, as the shuttle buses weren’t waiting directly at the train station… Fortunately, there was a lady travelling in the train who had attended a concert in Pratolino the day before, so she safely guided us to the buses.
When we arrived at Pratolino, there were carabinieri everywhere managing the traffic, signalling for the cars which temporary car park they should use, guiding the buses through… And I thought: If I were one of the boys and saw this chaos, I’d fall unconscious and would be unable to sing! At this moment I truly realized how famous Il Volo was.
We got off the bus and there was about one kilometer walk through the park waiting for us and then, finally, I saw the stage!
The park is a lovely place and it’s getting gradually reconstructed. There are statues, a beautiful Villa Demidoff and a chapel that was open for the concert visitors.
I’d say there were about five thousand people of all ages, and from the snippets of conversation my impression was that for many of them it wasn’t their first Il Volo concert.
Park Pratolino
The Florence vs. Pratolino thing made even Piero confused 😉 Here’s what he asked at the beginning of the concert.
Piero: I don’t want to offend anyone so what’s correct? Florence or Pratolino? Audience: Florence! Piero: Good, because I said at home that I was going to sing in Florence.
The concert
The concert started at 9:30 p.m.; it was already dark and still so warm…
It was my first time hearing the boys live and this is a part of the message I immediately sent to my friend. It just sums up my impressions:
And I can’t even describe the singing. What Ignazio can do 🤯🤯 And hearing Piero singing the arias live 😮 And Gianluca such a soothing voice 🥰🥰🥰 And the best was going back to the bus and just hearing bits of conversation of the many fans and all of them were so excited.
The boys were so relaxed, natural, warm and friendly, they talked about the songs a lot, joked, and didn’t rush. I have to say I was quite proud of myself because I understood more or less everything they said in Italian.
Songs that stood out and solos
The boys came on the stage and immediately started singing Nelle tue mani, it was such a powerful beginning; Caruso was very moving… I love the Ad Astra album and was so happy that they sang about half of the songs from it: Succede, Il mondo all’incontrario, Capolavoro and especially Frammenti di universe, I love the part where Gianluca’s and Ignazio’s voices interact with each other.
The concert also contained six solos. As I said, La cura was one of the main reasons I travelled to Italy, and I got everything I wanted and more. My friend told me that La cura is often sung at weddings because of the lyrics. Whenever Gianluca sings “Perché sei un essere speciale“(because you are a special human being) I always add in my mind: yes, you, Gianluca, you are a special human being.
I was equally enchanted by Piero’s E lucevan le stelle. And then Ignazio’s Almeno tu nell’universo…, you have to listen to it, it cannot be described. From the first second you understand that this song has a deeply personal and special meaning for Ignazio, and he makes you feel it, too.
We also heard Ovunque sarai, Amor vida de mi vida and Can’t help falling in love.
The public was so energetic and warm, applauding, cheering and very often singing with the boys; everyone knew the lyrics of Capolavoro, and of Ignazio’s solos.
And then came one of the best experiences of my life: the guys invited everyone to stand up, come closer to the stage and join them in singing the last song. And so, together with about five thousand people, I was singing/screaming Grande Amore at the top of my lungs, standing on my feet, clapping my hands. It was such an exciting ending of the whole concert.
All of us on our feet, singing Grande amore
Fun
The concert was a perfect mix of brilliant singing, relaxed atmosphere and some fun.
When the guys started talking about the song Ad Astra, they said: “We were in Mexico” and a whole row of people waved, so they interrupted the introduction of the song and greeted Mexico and the Mexican fans who were there.
Then Gianluca started listing countries, asking if there was someone from the US, Canada etc. etc. and people were waving and raising their hands.
Ignazio: That’s a lot of people. Is there even anyone from Tuscany? (the region around Florence) Gianluca immediately: And from Abruzzo?
Then there was another very funny moment, and I haven’t seen any video of it so here’s a summary.
Piero: There’s somewhere a friend of mine in the audience. He’s a waiter. Can you get up? We met a month ago when we were doing a press conference here. And he’s the best waiter in the world. He prepared breakfast for me. And if I remember correctly, it’s Massimo’s birthday today.
Meanwhile, the man got up.
Il Volo started singing and the whole audience stood up and joined the guys in singing Tanti auguri(Happy birthday).
When they finished, Gianluca heard something and then said: What? Your name is not Massimo? It’s Tomasso!! Piero: Well, the breakfast was at 6.30 a.m…. but I did remember the birthday correctly. Gianluca asking Tomasso: I still don’t understand. But why did you get up when he said Massimo? Tomasso: He also said that I was a waiter which is correct.
Then the guys were about to introduce another song, Se from Ennio Morricone.
Ignazio to Piero: No, you don’t say his name.
Kindness
It was a funny moment, but it also shows how kind and friendly Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio are. And kindness doesn’t stop with them, also all the volunteers were very nice, not to speak about all the people who organized the transport to Pratolino. There may not have been that many pieces of information, and being in a foreign country, the journey felt like an adventure at the beginning, but everything worked out.
I was a bit worried whether the buses were going to wait for everyone after the end of the concert but then I convinced myself that there were worse things than waiting at the station for some early train in the morning, especially as the evening and night were so warm. Of course, the buses waited.
And then while sitting back in the train, well past midnight, suddenly an applause erupted there – it could rival the standing ovations the boys received just an hour ago – the train staff decided that the train wasn’t going to terminate at the Campo Marte station but was going to continue to the main train station in the city center! For many people it was much more convenient.
Booklet
We were given a 50-page long booklet containing the programme and introduction of the Musart festival, the individual artists, the Demidoff villa…
Here is a translation of the part about Il Volo:
(translated by me, revision done by my Italian friend)
Since forever, flying or the flight (il volo) has been one of the biggest dreams of humankind. Not only in the physical sense but also in the metaphorical one.
Flying (il volo) represents liberty, surpassing the limits, and the aspirations to reach something higher.
Flying (il volo) is not only a matter of wings or motors but also of soul and desire. Paulo Coelho once said: “The man has an inner greatness that moves him to fly, even though his wings are invisible.” These words reflect the truth about every dreamer: flying (il volo) is, first of all, an act of believing in oneself.
Music, like flying, lifts us up and transports us in unexpected places. It’s by means of our voice that we reach the highest, farthest goals, breath-taking and alienating, while communicating through one of our most profound senses.
It’s incredible how much freedom may lie in those few lines that represent the stave. The voice flies, soars, contorts itself into the various notes, adjusts to the tonality and communicates its feelings through the minor and major chords.
Flying (il volo) is the utmost representation of the human desire to rise above the circumstances of everyday life and reach something sublime. In every note, in every melody, in every word, we can find a piece of sky. And thus, we join the choir, soaring high, guided by the art and the beauty of the flight.
And Il Volo(now with the capital letter) is also the beautiful story of these boys – young men now – who with harmony and on the sound of high notes perform all over the world and shortly they will be welcomed in the park of the Demidoff villa. I share with them the experience of participating at the San Remo festival. I also was part of a trio but that wasn’t a long-term project but only a brief intermezzo. And also, we didn’t have such a beautiful and inspiring name!
Luca Canonici, opera singer
Prague: Warm encounter with old friends (12th October 2024)
The “old friends” in the title refer to the songs, as Il Volo was celebrating 15 years of career, and the guys sang there all the important songs of their journey… and “old friends” also refer to the European capitals as Il Volo had had much success there in previous tours.
Prague was more of a “standard” concert I’d say – no more open air but a huge modern arena.
The public was very appreciative, but I missed a bit the spontaneity of the predominantly Italian public from Florence and their readiness to join the boys in singing various songs.
Place
O2 Arena, before the concert, from my seat
The O2 arena in Prague is modern, spacious, with a subway station nearby… The capacity of the arena is about 18.000 (though at first, the organizers weren’t selling tickets for the second gallery seats, so the number of spectators was lower).
This is off topic but next year, the World figure skating championship will take place there and given the Olympics are in Italy I expect a lot of skaters to choose Italian music next season, maybe even from Il Volo.
Prague is a beautiful city, though as I didn’t have to make such an effort to get there, the concerts in Florence feel – subjectively – even more special to me.
I was very happy when Gianluca shared pictures from the National Gallery in Prague. And then he also posted a picture of a statue and even though I lived in Prague for two years, at first, I didn’t know where it was! The guys discovered more places in Prague in two days than me in two years 😉
Gianluca’s photo of the Kafka statue
Soundcheck
I wholeheartedly recommend going to the soundcheck if you have the chance. On one hand it’s much less expensive than meet and greet and on the other hand wherever you sit then during the concert you’ll still have this unique experience of sitting in the first or second row and seeing Il Volo from close.
You can see a bit of what is going on behind the scenes, you see the guys in casual clothes, leaning on the piano, scrolling on the phone while waiting for something, discussing details with the technicians…
This was my first time attending a soundcheck and I was amazed! We quietly walked into semi-darkness, and suddenly we heard The Sound of Silence. It was so clear and loud and absolutely mesmerizing. Meanwhile we sat down and then the boys sang Opera – arguing good-naturedly about the lyrics, Piero suggested trying the ending of Hallelujah and then he did a solo. And afterwards they sang with the guest, Elina Nechayeva, and were so sweet and attentive to her.
Concert: Songs that stood out and solos
The song that stood out for me was definitely The Sound of Silence.
The boys stand in a semi-circle close together, they start singing, it’s almost dark on the stage and you can hear only their voices. And if you haven’t thought about it before, now you realize that this is all they need. They don’t need crazy costumes and hairdos, dancers or aerial artists on the stage, flashy lights; just with their voices and personality they make the show.
Un amore così grande made me, literally, cry; then there was the playful La donna è mobile that made me smile. And the cherry on the top was Opera. Again, it’s dark, and suddenly you hear Opera! Opera! Opera! loud and decisive reverberating in the whole arena.
The Estonian singer Elina Nechayeva joined Il Volo for Libiamo ne’ lieti calici and she also proposed a toast in Czech! During the brief pause in the song she danced with Piero and Ignazio and danced with Gianluca 😉
There was one song I had been looking forward to so much – The Music of the Night – hoping Gianluca would sing it. And he did. He sang so beautifully; his voice was soft and yet powerful. The lyrics are, in my opinion, so complex and difficult and yet Gianluca’s pronunciation is so clear (clearer than of many native speakers I dare say) and you can understand every word.
Then came a big surprise. I was expecting maybe Can’t Help Falling in Love but instead, Gianluca gifted us Bridge Over Troubled Water. And because it was so unexpected I think I enjoyed the song even more.
Piero received thunderous applause for both E lucevan le stelle and Amor vida de mi vida and Ignazio sang Memory.
Kindness
In Prague there were some people holding posters saying they were from Molise (which is a region neighbouring Gianluca’s Abruzzo) so he switched to Italian and thanked them for coming to the concert. Then, back in English, Ignazio explained that Gianluca greets friends everywhere and that during the summer tour in Italy he had friends in every city.
After that the guys remembered that their friend from Mexico was also at the concert, so they switched to Spanish and greeted him, too.
It’s just one gesture but I think it really sums up so well what makes the guys so special. They genuinely care for their fans; they don’t see us as consumers of their music. And they are also able to spontaneously communicate with the public, in three languages no less!
After this concert in October, I wanted to write an article summarizing the concerts in Florence and Prague. This was supposed to be the end of the article:
The only thing to decide is: where to go for the next concert? Italy in January (because night bus rides through the Alps in winter are truly magical), Tutti per uno concert in May (because this way I’d get to know more about other Italian artists) or Germany/Austria in November (because it’s always nice to visit the neighbouring country) 😉.
I didn’t finish the article at that time, instead I did buy bus tickets to Italy again and a ticket for the concert on 15th January in Florence as I couldn’t miss the opportunity to hear more songs from the brilliant Ad Astra album. (And I might have bought a ticket for Tutti per uno in Mantua, too.)
Florence Ad Astra tour: Reaching new horizons (15th January 2025)
The January tour was dedicated to new songs from the Ad Astra album and what an amazing idea it was! Personally, I love all these songs, would choose them over any other and love discovering new words in Italian and the feeling that the more I’m listening to them the more I understand.
With the visuals and themes of planets, universe, and stars it was a perfect opportunity to use abstract images on five big screens, changing colours, lights and laser lights resulting in a unique show. To add a bit of a dramatic touch the boys start singing Chiaro di luna while hidden in a drapery that, after a few lines, falls down.
I said earlier that the boys didn’t need any “tricks” or dramatic shows, but they wanted to try something new, and it was great indeed. (Though I have to admit that while all the laser lights and huge screens looked amazing in the photos, I enjoyed it a bit less in person. However, I think it was caused by the placement of my seat, either from further away or from closer it would probably look better. I was in the 29th row and while concentrating hard on just seeing the boys on the stage I didn’t have enough time to appreciate the light show properly.)
The concert lasted two and a half hours! The boys sang an incredible number of songs, compared to the summer concert they didn’t talk that much, there simply wasn’t any time for longer conversations!
The light show as seen from my seat
Place
This concert in Florence took place really in Florence, in the Nelson Mandela stadium, and, coincidently, quite close to the hostel I was staying in so I could just go there on foot.
The capacity of the stadium is about 8,000 seats; it was full, and the spectators were very enthusiastic, knowing all the lyrics of the songs.
Nelson Mandela stadium
This time, I didn’t see anything else in Florence, I came really just for one afternoon, though I spent the following day with my friend in Bologna.
Bologna
Soundcheck
First, the boys sang Saturno e venere and then it wasn’t a soundcheck anymore but rather Ignazio’s show. 😉 He was in a really good mood. Piero wanted to do his solo E lucevan le stelle and while he was singing Ignazio was accompanying him with ballet moves, then Ignazio sang E lucevan le stelle as a solo, too. It was amazing! And then Ignazio sang Un amore così grande on Il mondo music and tried to convince Piero to join him, finally he sang all three parts of Il mondo imitating Gianluca and Piero. Gianluca was observing all this from the auditorium with his brother.
The concert: Songs that stood out and solos
Cecille was a guest and sort of an opening act in Florence. When the curtains were still closed, without the live orchestra, she sang two songs, A Natural Woman and her own song Solamente farfalle. I really liked them, especially the Italian one (another artist to add to the library on Spotify 😊). Later she joined the boys and sang E più ti penso with them.
I absolutely cannot pick just a few songs that stood out for me in Florence because I love the whole Ad Astra album. And out of the ten original songs we got nine! Including the instrumental Per Aspera that the orchestra played before the guys appeared on the podium and including Saturno e venere with the boys also singing Irama’s part. (The only song left out was L’infinito.☹) Hearing Tra le onde and Se/Nuovo cinema paradiso live was also very special.
I was fortunate enough to hear La cura live for the second time. Gianluca congratulated his mom on her birthday and dedicated this song to her.
And then another surprise from Gianluca! Eleanor Rigby. I fell in love with this song while watching the Tutti per uno concerts and especially listening to Gianluca’s introduction of the song.
Piero doesn’t change a winning team. 😉 He sang E lucevan le stelle again and it was amazing again. And his second solo was No puede ser.
Ignazio sang The Show Must GoOn and what a show it was! And then rocker Ignazio disappeared, and we got a tender E penso a te with many spectators knowing the lyrics and joining him. Ignazio’s versatility is truly breathtaking.
Some more interesting bits and pieces
After the soundcheck we had to leave the stadium. I remained waiting near the gate and slowly, people who had tickets only for the concert started gathering there, too. The gate was still closed, though, as it was really early.
Then I noticed a beautiful lady in an elegant coat standing nearby. ‘She looks like Veronica Berti, Andrea Bocelli’s wife’ crossed my mind. ‘But that can’t be her, that’s crazy, right?’ I thought. Curious, I checked Veronica Berti’s Instagram and saw a picture from Miami published two days ago and concluded that this lady was just a bit similar to her and “the real Veronica” and Andrea Bocelli were probably still in the US.
However, after a few minutes at least five people came to the gate, opened it just for this lady and accompanied her inside. And I had some doubts again…
After the concert I looked at Veronica Berti’s Instagram again and saw a story! There was a photo of the boys. She was at the concert indeed!
Here’s what she wrote: Two hours and a half of music flew by… how amazing it is to listen to you. Thank you for the beautiful evening.
Veronica Berti’s Instagram story
What an amazing coincidence that I caught the three or five minutes when she was waiting in front of the gate.
They are stars but also much more
I’m sure we all share this feeling: The guys are stars. And we, the spectators, admire them, of course. I think though that the guys don’t want the spectators to leave the concerts “only” with admiration but want the people to be happy. They are making us feel happy during the concerts and for days to come. They joke, walk through the crowd, accept gifts while on the stage, adjust the set list to the place where they are performing…
It’s also so considerate of them that when they leave the stage and sing among the public, they don’t stop in the first rows but really sing in the middle of the people, going through the whole arena so that as many people as possible can see them up close.
And it’s amazing that they communicate with the public so much and do so in three languages! They joked in Prague in English as much as they did in Florence in Italian.
I really liked the moments when they talked about the individual songs and introduced them. And on all three occasions I loved listening to bits and pieces of conversations while leaving the venue. Everyone was happy and praised Il Volo!
Front row?
We usually get stories from fans in the first rows, but I’d like to assure you that the seat is not that important. Wherever you sit you won’t be disappointed. In Pratolino I sat in row fifteen, it was great. In Prague I was far away – in the gallery across the whole ground floor. And yet, during Here’s to you Gianluca came all the way through the whole ground floor and waved to the people sitting in the gallery. And in Florence I sat in row twenty-nine on the ground floor. (There was a big screen but only on the other side of the arena.) During the Vicinissimo mix Piero passed by half a meter from me! So really, there are no bad seats.
Alone?
Even if you don’t have anyone to go with, don’t worry about it! I was alone at all three concerts, but you are never really alone, there’s a friendly atmosphere, you smile at one person, hear this remark, reply to that remark… In the train to Pratolino, I said literally one word in Italian and was already pulled into a conversation and ended up having a nice chat in English-Italian about Prague with a fellow fan. And because there were so many people at the concerts, I felt safe even walking to the hostel at 1 a.m.
Italian
I’m sure I’m not the only one learning Italian (mainly to understand the lyrics and the interviews). And I know I said that during the July concert in Florence I understood more or less everything the guys said. But let’s be honest, it’s because I’ve seen a lot of videos from previous concerts and also because you can kind of know what to expect. The guys (most) certainly won’t talk about physics or mineralogy… So, my Italian wasn’t put to the test there that much… But a guided tour? That’s a different story.
When we visited Bologna, my friend and I booked a two-hour long guided city tour. It was in January, so there were very few tourists and no possibility to book the tour in English. Even for the Italian one there were only four other people beside us. I was a bit worried.
Because in July last year when we visited the San Galgano monastery, I tuned out the Italian guide after twenty minutes… I understood quite a lot of words, yet I couldn’t get the meaning of the whole speech, and he was talking in Tuscan dialect which didn’t help…
Guess what happened six months later in Bologna? While listening to the guide, I laughed when the Italians laughed, I was surprised when the Italians were surprised, I exclaimed “oh no” when the Italians did… I understood the guide!
The boys and their songs are a great motivation to continue studying and I hope that I’ve motivated some of you with this story.
In case you want to compare, here’s a list of songs the guys sang at the concerts…
List of songs Florence, summer tour:
New:Capolavoro, Ad Astra, Frammenti di universo, Il mondo all’incontrario, Succede
Covers + older songs:Who Wants to Live Forever, Grande amore, Un amore così grande, Nessun dorma, Nelle tue mani, Hallelujah, Se, Miserere, Il Mondo, Caruso, Here’s to You, Ecstasy of Gold, Se telefonando
Solos:E lucevan le stelle, Can’t Help Falling in Love, Ovunque sarai, Amor vida de mi vida, La cura, Almeno tu nell’universo
List of songs in Prague:
New: Opera, Capolavoro, Ad astra
Covers + older songs:Who Wants to Live Forever, Grande Amore, The Sound of Silence, My Way, Un amore così grande, Nessun dorma, Nelle tue mani, Hallelujah, Se, Miserere, Il Mondo, Caruso, Funiculì funiculà, La donna è mobile, Libiamo with Elina, Here’s to You, O sole mio
Solos: E lucevan le stelle, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Memory, Amor vida de mi vida, Phantom of the Opera
List of songs in Florence Ad astra tour:
New:Per Aspera, Chiaro di luna + Opera, Capolavoro, Frammenti di universo, Ad astra, Tra le onde, Saturno e venere, Succede, Il mondo all’incontrario
Covers + older songs:Who Wants to Live Forever, E più ti penso with Cecille, Grande Amore, The Sound of Silence, My Way, L’amore si muove + Vicinissimo + Musica che resta + Per te ci sarò, Un amore così grande, Nessun dorma, Nelle tue mani, Hallelujah, Se, Miserere, Il Mondo, Se telefonando
Solos:E lucevan le stelle, Eleanor Rigby, The Show Must Go On, No puede ser, La cura, E penso a te
Hi, this is Sheila Kilpatrick reporting on our boys in Niagara Falls!
Some of you might know this is my first concert. I have never seen the guys in person! I live in Vancouver, had to fly to Toronto then drive with a friend to Niagara Falls! My friend had never seen or followed our boys! Her preference in the world of music is very eclectic and heavy base!
When we arrived at the falls, we were given a couple of tickets to a smaller theatre where there were four life-long friends each playing their music which they loved. They were all playing either drums or very loud electric guitars that blared high range squeaks and sounds not meant for our ears. We enjoyed some however left when we could quietly sneak out! The reason I am telling you this is it gave me the opportunity to explain to her Il Volo was totally opposite to what we had just experienced!
Time for sound check!
Very unorganized but as you might expect I was first in line! I had broken down my fear of needing my walker – thank the lord – it may help you get to where you want to go! Anyway, I kept asking why others had their VIP lanyards and I only had the one I made?? Kept being told I would get mine at the meet and greet! OK, I believed them!! The boys sang a couple of song and changed a few things as it was a new orchestra (wonderful). Ignazio then left, making dinner I guess, then Piero jumped down and started shaking everyone’s hand followed by Gianluca!! I said to Gian, why no Vancouver? His reply, I love Vancouver a beautiful city, we haven’t been there for a while – NEXT year?? Be still my heart!
The CONCERT TO END ALL CONCERTS!
I attended the Friday, April 4th concert. The guys were all magnificent and amazing and spectacular from our two FRONT ROW CENTER seats! Not sure how that happened but just sat, smiled and went with the flow! As they were leaving, I reached over and shook Gian’s hand and he smiled said thanks to the crowd again and left the stage!
I learned how wonderful Piero is as a singer and personality! His ability to interact with the crowd was marvelous! His operatic numbers were amazing, so strong and clear and just spell binding for me to listen to – though not my first choice!
Personally, not a fan of appliqué! The guys shine on their own!
MEET and GREET
I didn’t have the correct armband etc. so was told I wasn’t on the list! Do you want to see a 77-year-old cry?? I held it in and explained to a lady in the know apparently, was taken up a floor and she said stay here and I did! Then a tour employee arrived and not only was I on the list, had confirmed two days prior etc., I was now in first in line for the photo shoot!
A short wait then the three stars in my life arrived, I went to stand in between Gian and Ignazio, and Gian said see you in Vancouver! I told him the song Bridge over Troubled Waters helped me during my husband’s passing and said thanks!
Come in and share the love of life, friends and Il Volo!
