For those who do not know the “pearl of the Ionian”, Taormina, is a beautiful small town with a breathtaking view.
It is really small, you can walk quickly, and see it all, and in its alleys, time has stopped. It is a destination for great tourism, for its undeniable beauty, but also because there is a beautiful and panoramic and well-kept ancient Greek Theater where many events take place.
By the way, but how beautiful are our guys with D&G designer clothes?
From 1 to 10 I would say 11!❤😁
A nice video of moments in Taormina, shot by Gianluca. The weather is not beautiful, let’s hope it doesn’t rain!
But last night after a nice dinner at the Baronessa restaurant, the boys sent a singing message for you in the U.S.
In this period of Covid, Taormina shines as always, but there are fewer people, therefore, all the more reason it is even more livable and it is easy to meet the people we would love to see, maybe at Bambar, while we taste a good granita, by Saretto.
In fact, these are my two dear friends, Nancy and Luce and that’s who they met !!
I am so happy for them, but also jealous. 😁😁😘
Even Piero Ignazio and Gianluca are there and at any time, a good granita is not refused !!
Gianluca says, “A granita, at Bambar at midnight and twenty, guys, almond and pistachio granita, you don’t know what you are missing”.
It’s the day of the event, this evening at the Greek Theater, there will be the Dolce & Gabbana event, the film DEVOTION will be screened with Monica Bellucci and with music by Ennio Morricone, and at the end there will be a performance by Il Volo !!
The boys started the day early with a good gymnastic workout, great guys !!
Then it was time for rehearsals.
And here we are finally at night.
But how much more beautiful can Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio be with these D&G tuxedos ??
I would say amazing! ❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful and very elegant men.
The event is sponsored by the Sicily Region.
The few admitted public did not have to pay, only to book the few tickets.
What luck for them!
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Il Volo with the governor of Sicily Musumeci.
Il Volo with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana and actress Monica Bellucci.
Here is the performance of Il Volo.
Il Volo performed:
Nessun Dorma E vui durmiti ancora (typical song sung in Sicilian dialect also by Gianluca) E più ti penso (tribute to Morricone) Un amore così grande
Four beautiful and flawless songs.
What a wonderful evening, lucky that audience.
Wonderful and elegant Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, as it must be on a special evening like this.
How many of you have seen and heard such beauty in music?
Really special and we are happy to be their fans !!
And finally, after four months the moment has arrived. The occasion was the Dolce & Gabbana fashion show in Milan.
IL VOLO, as guests, sang together again. Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca sang the beautiful, sweet Italian songs.
In times of pandemic, the parade was held outdoors, on the “university campus” in Milan. Few people admitted, unfortunately.
A men’s fashion show, many models ……….. but how beautiful our boys were, elegant, in blue suits, but with a touch of sportiness in the white sneakers.
They are in excellent shape, beautiful and with perfect voices and finally together again.
They started by singing “Torna a Sorrento”.
I want to remind you, that the D&G fashion show is inspired by the colors and geometries of the Amalfi coast, which find their uniqueness also in the architecture of the beautiful Parco dei Principi Hotel in Sorrento.
The parade has started and while the models paraded with the D&G creations, Il Volo accompanied with:
Grande Amore
O Sole Mio
Un Amore così Grande
‘O surdato ‘nnammurato
Nel blu dipinto di blu – Volare
Here is the video of the parade. 😁😁😁
Really a mini concert.
As good as ever and perhaps even more, because the voices, rested from the long run, were magnificent and Ignazio performed all the high notes at the end! ️🎶
Congratulations guys, it is a great pleasure to see you again and hear your voices together!
While Il Volo sang Volare, Dolce & Gabbana entered, wearing masks, they went on stage where the boys were singing.
There was a short speech from Alberto Mantovani,head of immunology at Humanitas University.
In the end Dolce and Gabbana thanked Il Volo and everyone present.
The event was also published in newspapers, including the New York Times.
A very nice article of the show was published online by The Impression.
The Italian RAI 2 news broadcast a short video of the show parade. and in the comments they said that all the participants, including the guys from Il Volo, gave up their fees by evolving them for research.
And here are the guys in the backstage of the parade, together with the people who work so that everything goes well !!
But that’s not all, there is other good news!
Yesterday it was announced that Saturday 18 July, at the Ancient Theater of Taormina, Dolce & Gabbana will present the film by Giuseppe Tornatore: DEVOTION, with Monica Bellucci and with music by Ennio Morricone.
At the end of the film, there will be a Il Volo performance to close the evening.
Of course in pandemic times, very few places are available due to the distance, but all this means that we are starting again, that things are improving.
Here is the announcement of the event.
How much good news, finally a wave of positivity!
These are small steps towards the recovery of normalcy. Here everything has started and now everything is normalizing, this time will come to you too, you have to wait and not be in a hurry.
But what about our beloved Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero ?? What a thrill to see them again and hear their splendid voices.
Thanks guys, indirectly you have donated a mini-concert to us too. Thanks also to D&G who allowed all this.
See you on Saturday…….
Taormina, a dream, how many of you would like to be there?? 😊😍
Three months have passed since Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, due to the pandemic, unfortunately had to stop their beautiful concert tour in the US.
ACCORDING TO OUR LATEST PRESS RELEASE IL VOLO FORCED TO CANCEL FINAL CONCERTS OF 2020 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DUE TO THE COVID-19 GLOBAL PANDEMIC.
On their return to Italy, they found a great change. Empty airports, empty cities, quarantine imposed on the whole nation, to avoid further spread of virus infection.
The boys themselves were unable to embrace their loved ones, but to stay in quarantine to guarantee their relatives that they had no active contagion.
In this period, where contacts were only online, the boys have been very active, and have accustomed us to a presence in programs, directly from their homes.
It was pleasant for us to be able to hear and see them in the intimacy of their personal places.
Il Volo joined fundraisers for many charity works.
Many television programs have re-transmitted old concerts, and broadcasts, which we have reviewed with great pleasure.
The concerts scheduled for this summer in Europe and Italy have unfortunately been moved to next year.
It is still too early here for the concerts, even the cinemas have not yet reopened, but we hope that the November concerts in Milan, Rome and Turin will be maintained.
The quarantine period is also over and we were able to see the first outings of Gian, Piero and Ignazio’s house, wearing the obligatory masks.
Now things have improved here and in some regions, especially in the south, masks are no longer mandatory, but use is required for places such as shops or during outdoor gatherings, where, however, distance is always a must .
It’s summer, it’s very hot, and it’s really difficult to keep your distance and wear masks, but we have to do it, to guarantee ourselves and others.
Ignazio Piero and Gianluca, now, are much more difficult to be found, they are less present on social networks, they have resumed their normal post-quarantine life.
Gianluca met his twin friends.😁
Piero has turned 27. AUGURI!!❤️
Ignazio dedicates himself to new interests with Floki Production and Nico Arezzo.😉
In the last few days, a film music great Ennio Morricone has passed away. Il Volo remembered Morricone, who was a great composer of film music, with this video and this beautiful dedication.
Music today has suffered a great loss.
Thanks for everything, Master.
In last few days, our boys met after three months, on the occasion of the Dolce & Gabbana fashion show.
I would say that Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca are really in excellent shape.
What about the fantastic presentation video of the Dolce & Gabbana collection?
Beautiful clothes, beautiful environment and fantastic music !!
Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca said during the forced quarantine that they were working on various projects and that they were in constant contact with each other to develop beautiful ideas.
We really hope that all this time and all the concerts postponed, will bring us beautiful and interesting things for the future of Il Volo.
So things here in Italy seem to improve, but every day we receive truly alarming news of the contagion in the US.
We understand very well what you are all going through and we are close to you.
In the US the numbers are terrible, how many dead, how many infected, certainly everything is relative as regards the numbers, but they are really thousands of lives and we still don’t know how to stop this devious pandemic.
Time will pass, before we can breathe a sigh of relief, time will pass, before returning to talk only about good concerts.
I continue to summarize the commitments of Il Volo during these days of the first timid opening towards the life of before.
The first commitment was for an event organized by Sony Latin, a Latin Music festival entitled MADE IN CASA.
For this event, Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero sent a nice video of Grande Amore.
Here is the video.
The second engagement was last Sunday, on the occasion of Mother’s Day.
The boys sent a video to the Azteca TV on Mexico, with their sweet dedications on the occasion of this beautiful and loving holiday, and below, the video of Il Mondo.
PR = Hello, now we are virtually connecting with Italy, a country that in the past few weeks has faced tough tests for the Covid19 pandemic. But now we rise, listening to Il Volo.
G = Hi everyone, my name is Gianluca de Il Volo, we speak to you from our home in Italy, we are enjoying our family and above all our mother. We are very sorry for what is happening, it is very difficult and we hope that it will pass soon.
Let’s take care of ourselves and hope to see you soon.
P = Hi everyone, I’m Piero, I’m talking to you from Sicily, from my home, like everyone else.
Today is a very special day, “è il giorno della mamma”, as we say in Italian. Now we are enjoying good food, which for us others is a very rare and difficult moment, but be sure that in this way, everything seems better.
I hope to see you soon in a concert and we will sing all together. I send you a kiss, bye.
I = Hi all Mexico fans, today is a special day. It is known that we Italians are a little “mammoni”, we love our mom. Well, happy mother’s day, to all mothers, and we hope to see you soon.
PR = Thanks to the components of Il Volo.
PR = We are back in Europe, where Il Volo waits for us to spend the night with his music.
It’s time to listen to IL MONDO, from Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero.
Thanks guys, for taking part in Contigo Mamá.
And then, an unexpected announcement by Piero………
…………followed by Gianluca’s announcement.
………….and therefore from that of Ignazio.
We are happy to put our voices at the service of #DGFattoInCasa by Dolce & Gabbana. This campaign underlines the importance of all the doctors and researchers who are working to help us to get out of this global health emergency. We have chosen to sing onDolce & Gabbana three songs that represent us, our beloved country and the beauty that Italy can spread all over the world: Grande Amore, Nessun Dorma and O Sole Mio. We hope through music to bring some joy in your homes. We can’t wait to embrace you all. Please, behave conscientiously and support the research of Prof. Mantovani and the Humanitas Foundation for Research.
How many beautiful occasions for intervention.
Well, many projects are still done, but I see more coming. Meanwhile, things seem to be improving here, but it is still early to say that everything is over, we still have to be patient.
A hug to all those who are still in a pandemic right now.
Daniela
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Il Volo with the governor of Sicily Musumeci.
Il Volo with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana and actress Monica Bellucci.
