Yes, those of us in the Midwest are now in for more snow on Monday, along with frigid temps for the weekend! We’ll just have to imagine ourselves next to Gian on the beach! 🙂
Yes, it’s birthday time again for our youngest, curly-haired, member!
Gianluca will be 24 this year on Feb 11 – hard to believe they are growing up so quickly! Time sure flies when you are having fun? We are having fun, right? 🙂
Anyway, this year will be special again for Gian, as Sanremo will have just happened. Let’s hope he has more to celebrate than just his birthday this year.
Once again folks, send your birthday greetings to Kelly, our phenomenal video/graphic artist on the crew and she’ll start her gathering of favorite photos!
Submit your wishes to: lvoloflightcrw@outlook.com
You can also submit them here, on this post. Kelly will get them directly from the Flight Crew address…
Once again, I’m sure Kelly would like ideas for a theme song for the video. Of course, Gian is her favorite, so she might just have something already in mind, but I know she loves all of your ideas!
Grazie,
Jana
p.s. we’re having a cold front move through the Midwest here, thought we could use a picture to warm us up a bit! 🙂
Gianluca is telling us about a novelty, today they will go to do a photo shoot, (or maybe a video) in the marble quarries of Massa Carrara.
G = Hello everyone, today we will have the privilege of doing a photo shoot in the marble quarries of Massa Carrara, I’ll show you how wonderful.
You got it, right ??
They are in Massa Carrara, in those caves, where Michelangelo wandered around to take the most beautiful marble, from which his fantastic statues would come out.
G = We are ready for today’s photo shoot, Paolo is removing the dark circles from me, I need it.
There is Ignazio who is doing his hair.
G = ready for this adventure?
Ready
The road to get to the top is not very easy, and there are cliffs and someone is scared.
Michele = But where the hell are you leading me?
I = Michele (laugh)
I = Here there is someone who is afraid …. Michele, Michele (laugh) Michele, come on, we are still low, we are high at 600 meters.
Michele = No, no. There is still the precipice.
I = Michele … Michele … Micheluzzo
G = It’s very cold, a nice hot tea!
G= We are returning to the base for the lunch break.
P = Hello
G = It’s very cold …… what a marvel.
G = I show you, there are some sculptures …. there are oxen ….. there is the quadratore (stone cutter) ….. then look how wonderful. Bye
Maybe it’s not just any photo shoot, but it could be the cover of their new CD, you think, do you like the setting?
The dream finally comes true and the three young artists of IL VOLO can sing in the presence of Pope Francis their special Ave Maria dedicated to him on the occasion of the 2017 Jubilee of Mercy. The occasion will be the World Youth Day, which will take place at Panama from 22 to 27 January next.
The three artists will perform during the vigil ceremony of the evening of January 26, in Campus San Giovanni Paolo II, where it is expected the presence of over a million people and the simultaneous transmission worldwide monovision of the event that will precede the Mass that the Pope will celebrate on Sunday 27 January.
“How to describe such a profound emotion? We are three young people – say Gianluca, Piero and Ignazio – among millions of young people like us, with the privilege of completing a dream: to sing on such an important occasion for such a special audience, the Pope and the beautiful youth.”
They had promised it to Bergoglio on the occasion of the private audience granted to them to donate to the Pope the first copy of their song Ave Maria Mater Misericordiaè with the intent of being able to perform it live in his presence.
This event will be an opportunity to meet young people from all over the world and live with them an experience of faith and communion.
With all of them Gianluca,Piero and Ignazio will sing a few pieces of the Latin American popular repertoire on the same occasion of the vigil. “2019 is the year of our tenth anniversary – the three artists add – and could not start better, giving us a unique opportunity that will accompany us forever in the memories of our career and our lives.”
Here the Pope’s program:
January 23 = 9:35 hours departure from Rome, arrival in Panama 4:50 pm
January 24 = Meeting with the President of the Republic of Panama and later with the bishops and inauguration of the WYD.
January 25 = Meeting with the inmates and Via Crucis.
January 26 = Mass from the S. Maria la Antigua Cathedral.
6:30 pm Vigil with young people in the San Juan Pablo II camp.
January 27 = 8 am, Mass for WYD, visit to the Buen Samaritano house, meeting with the GMG volunteers in the Estadio Rommel Fernandez.
At 6:15 pm, return to Rome.
IL VOLO should sing at the Vigil with the youth, where they will sing songs of entertainment of the Latin American tradition and then at the Mass of the WYD where the Ave Maria Mater Misericordiaèwill be sung.
It is because of Poland that we expect this to happen, because of the missed opportunity for IL VOLO to sing in Poland at the World Youth Day 2016.
What a thrill, singing in front of the Pope and the immense audience of people.
We will be glued to the television to see this incredible event.
An evening like so many, I scroll the television programs, and find nothing interesting.
Some images capture my interest, they are on RAI 5 and the images concern Sicily.
I stop to look at this beautiful island that I had the pleasure of visiting, far and wide, last year.
It is a beautiful program that combines images with beautiful verses of poets who have described these beauties.
At a certain point it speaks of Taormina and of the beautiful Greek Theater, and while an “off camera” voice describes the theater, in the background a music that I recognize well : UN AMORE COSÌ GRANDE, performed by IL VOLO.
With amazement I’m even more interested in it, it’s a cultural program and who thought that IL VOLO was suitable to decant its beauty.
I did not expect this surprise.
Daniela Ci, was able to reproduce the video of the moment in which there are our boys.
Look at it, it’s worth it.
I translate the background words, because they are really beautiful.
GUY DE MAUPASSANT 1883
The theater of Taormina is so wonderfully situated, that there is certainly no other comparable point in the world.
Where are the people who could do such things?
Where are the men capable of building, for the fun of the crowds, buildings like this?
Those men, those of the past, had a soul and eyes, which did not resemble our own.
In their veins, with blood, flowed, something that disappeared: love and admiration for beauty.
J.W.GOETHE Trip in Italy 1787
Beyond the high rock wall that rises to peak, not far from the beach, there are two rocks, connected by a semicircle, whose shape, whatever it was by nature, has been transformed by art, so as to make it a hemicycle amphitheater for spectators.
At the foot and transversely to the stepped hemicycle, the scene was built, joining the two rocks and thus completing a gigantic work of art and nature.
If we place ourselves at the highest point, occupied by the ancient spectators, we must recognize that never, probably, a theater audience will see something similar.
I had the chills, looking at those images, listening to those beautiful and appropriate words of the ancient poets and listening to the sweetness of our guys’ song ……. and you?
Yes, it’s birthday time again for our youngest, curly-haired, member!
Gianluca will be 24 this year on Feb 11 – hard to believe they are growing up so quickly! Time sure flies when you are having fun? We are having fun, right? 🙂
Anyway, this year will be special again for Gian, as Sanremo will have just happened. Let’s hope he has more to celebrate than just his birthday this year.
Once again folks, send your birthday greetings to Kelly, our phenomenal video/graphic artist on the crew and she’ll start her gathering of favorite photos!
Submit your wishes to: lvoloflightcrw@outlook.com
You can also submit them here, on this post. Kelly will get them directly from the Flight Crew address…
Once again, I’m sure Kelly would like ideas for a theme song for the video. Of course, Gian is her favorite, so she might just have something already in mind, but I know she loves all of your ideas!
Grazie,
Jana
p.s. we’re having a cold front move through the Midwest here, thought we could use a picture to warm us up a bit! 🙂
Come in and share the love of life, friends and Il Volo!
