What can I say, the new year has just begun and we are still talking about what Il Volo did in the last days of 2023.

On December 29th, the repeat of the concert held in the Arena in May was broadcast on Canale 5. It was, in fact, just a rerun and there were new films on the other TV channels.

It was a success, the highest audience of the evening went to the repeat concert of Il Volo. It was an amazing result and I don’t think any journalist expected it and so the next day many articles were read with the headline “Stunning success of Il Volo also in rerun”.

 

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Canale 5 wins the evening with a nice musical rerun.
The concert event of Il Volo which was broadcast for the first time last May, was broadcast again last night 29 December……

And how do you listen!  20% of the share was in front of the TV, equal to 2.7 million viewers.

Let me tell you, I was very happy with happiness, first of all it was wonderful to see that concert again, but the result of the highest audience was really a nice reward for Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, this is proof that the public appreciates and admires the our three young men.

I chose the songs from these videos from the concert

GIANLUCA= WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

PIERO= VOGLIO VIVERE COSÌ

IGNAZIO= MY HEART WILL GO ON

IL VOLO= TRIBUTE TO SERGIO ENDRIGO:

CANZONE PER TE

LONTANO DAGLI OCCHI

The last song is very touching: GIROTONDO INTORNO AL MONDO (Roundabout around the world ) which says that if all the people joined hands, there would be a merry-go-round around the world, a hymn to end wars which are always absurd.

Click Here to view the Canale 5 video

…..and on January 5th there will be a repeat of the second concert, I don’t dare think of another similar result, but it will be fine anyway!

Il Volo then released a short interview about the song they will bring to Sanremo: CAPOLAVORO.

IGNAZIO= Hello everyone, we are Il Volo.

PIERO= And our song is titled:

GIANLUCA= CAPOLAVORO (Masterpiece)

PIERO= Basically it speaks to the moment in which we struggle to see inside ourselves and always look for the answer outside with hope. So hope is our answer.

IGNAZIO= It’s a Hi-pop genre……no I’m joking….it’s definitely pop in our way, certainly with this song we wanted to bring an evolution to what is our musical career.

PIERO= Friends is a big word (he was probably asked if they are really friends and Piero is joking). We are very good friends, this year we celebrate 15 years of our career and it is rare to have such a deep and important relationship, because we didn’t know each other before, we didn’t choose each other, but in 15 years this relationship has always matured and become increasingly stronger day after day.

GIANLUCA= Ama (diminutive for Amadeus) do you love us?

IGNAZIO= But what question is: “Do you love us?”

GIANLUCA= But what do I know if he loves us, we love him. 😁

Then, Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio (who returned from Venezuela with Michelle) gathered in Crotone in Pitagora’s Square, for the end-of-year concert, L’ANNO CHE VERRÀ (The coming year) in which they will participate with some songs.

Here they are at the resort and during rehearsals.

There were a lot of people during rehearsals too.

 

 

 

This video was published by Michele Affidato, a goldsmith from Crotone, friend of Torpedine, with these words:

“Il Volo comes to visit us. I have seen them grow, I have always followed them and I have joyfully shared their success. After years they return to visit me at my showroom together with their manager and my great friend Michele Torpedine.”

Look at the audience’s reaction.

PIERO= We don’t come here often (to Crotone), but we like the way we are welcomed, this warmth, there was no better way to end the year. (Gianluca jokes pretending to be a journalist) 

But here we are at the moment of the television evening, the concert that will pass from one year to the next.

Here is the video of Il Volo, that emotion:

HALLELUJAH (short a cappella performance) and GRANDE AMORE

And later they came back and sang a medley like this:

IGNAZIO= ALMENO TU NELL’UNIVERSO

GIANLUCA = LA CURA (even though he had sung ANGELS at the rehearsals)

PIERO= LIBIAM NE LIETI CALICI

 

These photos were posted by CINGUETTARAI, a kind of comment on RAI programs. I translate:

 

“The HALLELUJAH sung by Il Volo with the whole audience in the square, in Crotone, has a completely different effect.”

 

“THE POWER OF GRANDE AMORE HAS REMAINED UNCHANGED SINCE 2015”

 

Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero thank the Calabria region (Crotone is a city in Calabria).

GIANLUCA= Hello everyone, we are Il Volo, we wish the Calabria Region a good 2024.

IGNAZIO= Happy New Year!

PIERO= Hello everyone, Happy New Year!.

GIANLUCA= I want to send a greeting “on the fly”, a third (because now it’s just Gianluca, therefore a third of Il Volo), to the Calabria Region, thank you for your affection and welcome. See you on stage soon, the Year to come, a good 2024 to everyone.

Piero, Mariagrazia and Gianluca

Il Volo with another trio, Gli Autogol.

And now look at the beautiful Happy New Year wishes we have received.

And finally a very nice interview published by “Quotidiano Nazionale” with this comment:

“Having concluded a 2023 full of problems but also full of ideas for a full restart, we have decided to look at 2024 with new eyes and to focus attention on some good intentions, on objectives to be achieved. For this reason, from today until the 8th January, through representatives of the world of culture, entertainment, science and sport, we present our good intentions for 2024.

First appointment with Il Volo, the interview with Valerio Baroncini 👉”

IL VOLO’S NO TO SELFISHNESS: “UNION IS REALLY STRENGTH. BE KIND ON SOCIAL MEDIA TOO, SO YOU WILL CHANGE THE WORLD”.

The golden group of Italian music comes down from the stage to tell their story after 15 years of success.

A story of talent, passion and friendship becomes a message to kids suspended between dreams and reality.

At least one teenager in a hundred in Italy cannot do without his smartphone and lives permanently connected. We also discussed this with the young musicians of Il Volo, protagonists of 15 years of an amazing career.

Artists see some risks in the digital world, but also extraordinary opportunities.

The music production process, they say, has also become more accessible and democratic.

Nevertheless. “And yet a different path is possible”, say three young men firmly on a terrace overlooking the sea of Sanremo.

A computer on the table: pages scrolling.
Words, words, words and photos.
Social media as a contemporary diary, window on the world, opportunity, but also a trap.

Three young men and one voice, that of Il Volo, the record-breaking group. To tell today’s kids, but also those of yesterday, that “the path of kindness, of sensitivity against insensitivity, the choice of the right words and a good use of technology are possible. Indeed, they are the first resolution for 2024 full of smiles.”

What does Il Volo expect from 2024?
First you will be in Sanremo, then a new album, concerts at the Verona Arena and a world tour.

IGNAZIO: “We expect a year full of music and we hope to achieve all our goals, but also many surprises”.

PIERO: “It will be a year of celebration: on 25 April 2024 we will reach 15 years of our career”.

GIANLUCA: “A good intention? Unity is strength: reaching 15 years of career today is really difficult. These are years in which being individualistic and self-centered prevail.
This doesn’t happen with us: together we are stronger, this is the message we want to convey to everyone”.

You are young and you speak to young people: what would you say to kids your age who are often accused of having little desire to work or sacrifice themselves? Bullshit or truth?

PIERO: “We believe so much in the individual strength of the new generations. More than giving advice, I can say how we have always tried to approach this profession: with a lot of determination and responsibility. The work must be approached with great discipline.
Today young people, unlike our parents for example, have many means at their disposal to experience success”.

GIANLUCA: “Success is doing what makes you happy, achieving full self-awareness. Great results are achieved through great sacrifices, nothing comes with minimal effort.”

Piero spoke about digital as an opportunity. Or, instead, are new technologies a danger?

IGNAZIO: “In music, having such strong technological advancement helps everyone and has democratized production processes, for example. Then, the flavor of analog is different from digital: there are pros and cons, never lose the human touch.”

PIERO: “As with all things you don’t know, you have to be afraid, a healthy fear, but not scared. We must take advantage of the positive side of technology. But don’t lose control.”

GIANLUCA: “Technologies are one thing. Another is people’s intentions. Those make the object dangerous.”

Inevitable to talk about social media. How do you use them? And do you like how you see them used?

GIANLUCA: “For some artists, appearance and aesthetics sometimes seem more important than music. Aesthetics are welcome, but let’s educate young people to nurture and cultivate culture and intellectual sensitivity.”

IGNAZIO: “I use them institutionally, I don’t like them very much, but I can’t pretend that they aren’t useful.”

PIERO: “Due to the role we hold, we have the strength to say what we think and the duty to amplify some messages.
You can use social media well if you have something to say.
You have to do it.”

The news amplifies this urgency: 2023 was marked by wars, violence, femicides. Communicating becomes fundamental.

PIERO: “Every year we think about good resolutions, we talk and talk again. In 2024, however, let’s put them into action: each of us has the power to change the world. As far as I’m concerned, the promise I make to myself is to cultivate kindness, helping others and not giving space to anger. Kindness, seen as constant work, can improve the world.”

IGNAZIO: “There are bad people, others not bad but influenced by a habit. My good intention, already underway, is to eradicate habits, even in speaking of certain themes.

Often in a futile way we don’t think about what we are actually saying. What, for me, may be a joke, for others may be a wound
or a stab.”

GIANLUCA: “The word is a double-edged sword. We must convey a new sensitivity, give positive messages, raise awareness of the insensitive.

It’s a tough and difficult mission, but you have to hit like a chisel on a stone.”

And how can it be done?

PIERO: “I would give some advice: go and see Paola Cortellesi’s film, the ending will shock you. It forces you to think. Then, she is a female director.”

IGNAZIO: “I hope you lose your amazement over this. Woman, man, talent counts. I hope that the stereotype of being ‘surprised’ will pass, and everyone will condemn the scourge of violence.”

Social media and comments: have you ever been hurt? And what would you say to those who suffer certain violence even just verbal?

IGNAZIO: “I have suffered a lot on social media and cyberbullying is still talked about too little.

Today, already at 11-12 years old you have a mobile phone and are on social media: they are real weapons if not used judiciously. I, and people close to me, have received serious threats. The problem is that I discovered they were kids.

Social media is beautiful, I use it to discover the world. Let’s not throw this opportunity away.”

GIANLUCA: “When you decide to do this profession, you have to take everything, just accepting compliments is emotional immaturity.

Insults and threats are a different thing.
You can’t control what’s outside of you, so strengthen yourself and raise awareness among others.”

Nice way to end the year 2023 and now we are already in 2024 which promises to be a really busy year for Il Volo.

Ignazio and Michelle are really very nice, the next post will be entirely dedicated to them.

See you soon: Daniela 🤗

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