It has been announced. It is one of the three major Italian concerts due to the majesty of the place where it is held, and it is the first concert of the Italian tour and was held in the ancient ruins of the Baths of Caracalla.
The Baths of Caracalla, very famous for their history, but also for hosting the concert of the Three Tenors: Pavarotti, Domingo and Carreras.
This year Il Volo also performs in The Baths of Caracalla. 🤩
The RAI2 News hosted Il Volo to talk about the event. (turn on subtitles)
On a beautiful and warm Roman evening, here is the place where the concert took place!
It all starts with “Nelle tue mani”, the splendid song from Il Gladiatore.
Here there are no passing scenarios, but there are the ancient ruins of the baths as a backdrop.
Magnificent start!
Many beautiful songs from the old repertoire but also many songs from the new CD Ad Astra!!
ALMENO TU NELL’UNIVERSO (Ignazio)
FRAMMENTI DI UNIVERSO
NESSUN DORMA
MY WAY
E LUCEVAN LE STELLE (Piero)
ROCKET MAN (Gianluca)
TARANTELLA (Piero)
LA CURA and other moments (Gianluca)
SHOW MUST GO ON (Ignazio, this video is from Michelle)
HALLELUJAH
CAPOLAVORO
AD ASTRA
Lots of people and looking at the photos, I can also confirm many people from a younger target and also many men.
I exchanged opinions with our friend Keisyuu who was the concert. She was in the very back seats and confirmed to me that she was among many people who were not experts in Il Volo, and that perhaps they were at their first concert and these people were very enthusiastic. 🤩🤩
Also at the concert were Mark and Mary Minton, who came specially from Boston and confirmed to me that the concert was wonderful.🥰🥰
And there was also our dear grandmother Maura who managed to get a long hug from Gianluca and she too confirmed the public’s total appreciation.😍😍
The photos I propose are beautiful:
Great success with the public and the following day the RAI 1 News listed the success of Il Volo a Caracalla (activate subtitles)
RAI 1
Even the newspaper Corriere Della Sera wrote a nice article, accompanied by a nice video, here they are.
Il Volo at the Baths of Caracalla sold out: the festive public celebrates the trio’s 15-year career
Baths of Caracalla sold out for Il Volo. On Saturday 8 June, Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio left Rome with the summer tour “Tutti per uno – Capolavoro”, which will continue until September, with 19 other appointments, in the most evocative venues of our country. In Piazza San Marco in Venice, on 4 July, at the Amphitheater of the Pompeii Excavations, on 17 July and 9 September at the Royal Palace of Caserta, just to name a few. A roar from the audience welcomes them when at 9.15pm, after the entrance of the orchestra, the trio goes on stage and opens the concert with the song “Nelle tue mani (Now we are free)”, followed by “Capolavoro”, a song taken into competition at the last Sanremo Festival, certified Gold. The audience screams and applauds a lot, many foreign tourists in the front rows. The setlist also includes unreleased songs from their latest album, “Ad Astra”, released at the end of March. Over two hours of live music, a musical celebration for fifteen years of career and friendship, which the trio closes with the encores “Nessun dorma” and “Ad Astra”.
Long ovation. Il Volo will return to Rome on 21 January 2025, at the Palazzo dello Sport dell’Eur.
Naturally, Michelle was also present at the concert and she and Ignazio took some beautiful photos before the concert and this did not go unnoticed, in fact a newspaper wrote about them.
Ignazio Boschetto and his Michelle in Lazio took the opportunity to visit a wonderful complex, which contains a good part of the incredible cultural heritage of Rome and beyond.
It’s almost time for the wedding between Ignazio Boschetto of Il Volo and his beautiful partner Michelle Bertolini. The two, more in love than ever, have recently treated themselves to an incredible holiday in one of the most popular Italian destinations this season. The young woman is always present with her boyfriend even when the discovery of wonderful places is accompanied by work together with colleagues Gianluca Ginoble and Piero Barone.
The young people, fresh from the great success of their show on Canale 5, are out and about for the summer concerts in which they will be protagonists. Yesterday it was the turn of a truly incredibly wonderful scenario. Before singing in front of those present, they took the opportunity for a walk and a series of shots in the place where they went for the event. They were in Rome, precisely near the majestic ones: have you ever been there?
I’m so happy that the first concert of the Italian tour went so well, and in such a special place.
There is a lot of success for our boys right now here in Italy and they deserve all this. 🤩🤩🤩
And the Ignazio-Michelle couple is also getting a lot of acclaim.😍😍
A nice interview with Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio was done by Paolo di Stefano for IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA.
This newspaper dedicated an entire paper page to the interview and it is truly an event because in reality this newspaper has never talked about Il Volo.
Il Volo: “They tell us that we are the children everyone would like to have. But success without initial training risked ruining us.”
The guys from the Il Volo group, Ignazio Boschetto, Piero Barone and Gianluca Ginoble: “Before, only the grandmothers followed us. We tell our peers not to be afraid to cry.”
Who is Il Volo?
Collective singular: trio, trinity, triple alliance. “We don’t even know who we are,” says Gianluca Ginoble, the baritone of the group known throughout the world as an interpreter of Italian “lyrical pop”. Excellent premise from which to start, indeed indispensable given that Il Volo, after almost fifteen years of triumphs, has reached a turning point, a turn from the sky of “bel canto” to something new. And yet if today, almost thirty-year-olds, they still don’t know who they are, they know very well where they come from. Gianluca from Roseto degli Abruzzi, Piero Barone from Naro, province of Agrigento, Ignazio Boschetto, born in Bologna, is also Sicilian, son of the city of Marsala. We are between the deep South and the deep Center. The Deep North is missing, but it does the same. The meeting takes place in Milan with Gianluca and Piero, while Ignazio is connected in shorts from Caracas, where his partner lives. It’s a chat full of surprises. The first is the impressive list of novels read by Gianluca, including those by Faulkner. Then he quotes Murakami’s The Art of Running, when Piero remembers having participated in the New York marathon.
PIERO: We have a past that unites us in many things: for example, the encounter with music for me and Gianluca occurred thanks to our grandparents. For me the music was that of Mario Del Monaco and Claudio Villa. Nobody introduced me to rock. My maternal grandfather drove the truck carrying wheat between one mill and another, but at the age of 45 he lost his sight and spent the rest of his days in an armchair: in total darkness he saved himself with music, today I have his own voice. He felt the need to help me grow and so I did what he couldn’t do, I studied piano, I sang in the town choir….
IGNAZIO:(he laughs): The most beautiful voice in the world…
PIERO: All three of us got to know music like this, in a natural way, without knowing it, without a conservatory.
How do you explain it?
GIANLUCA: It would have to be studied in a psychology faculty. At 14-15 years old, after being discovered on TV, we spent three months in the USA, we were catapulted not into a new world, but into an absurd world, sacrificing adolescence, friends, family.
PIERO: Commitment and talent. But without commitment, talent vanishes, it’s not enough.
GIANLUCA: We live in a world where we want immediate results with minimal effort. Our lives changed so suddenly, without any training, that we didn’t even notice. Then comes commitment and ambition.
How do you grow up with such early success?
GIANLUCA: We spent more time with each other than with our families. We trained each other, it’s as if we were wearing a mask on stage: but the danger is to keep the mask on even when we’re not singing, because we rarely get to be together to have fun. Only now, as we have matured, has our relationship grown in intimacy and discussion.
IGNAZIO: Success is difficult to manage, even with families. Not everything is beautiful, especially if you start young. We are lucky not to have noticed it. Then, sometimes you stop and say: what happened? We are crazy, me first. I think we are lucky in many countries and I say: at this point why should I limit my life and my experiences?
GIANLUCA: We live from our passion and this overcomes tiredness and stress.
PIERO: The fun is still there, and remains the priority. I don’t think I’m famous and inner balance is a constant work for which I also have to thank the people around me: my brother and sister were sacrificed by the attention my parents dedicated to me. For this reason, today what I do on an economic level is also for them.
What do your parents do?
GIANLUCA: My father distributed medicines to pharmacies in Central Italy, but he left this work to follow me. Mum worked in the factory at Perla.
IGNAZIO: My parents moved from Marsala to Bologna, where my mother started working as a cook in a restaurant, then she worked in a pizzeria for a lot of years. When we returned to Sicily, she opened her own pizzeria. Dad was a bricklayer and wood craftsman. He died in 2021.
Three boys who start singing “Nessun dorma” and “Torna a Surriento”. It seems like anachronistic madness.
PIERO: They often tell us: you are the children everyone would like. Perhaps the message arrived in the most natural form.
GIANLUCA: To be nostalgic has been our luck with the adult public, but over time it can be a condemnation. In fact we are working on unreleased songs to move forward over the next twenty years… We are no longer Il Volo from the beginning, when we all sang the same way. We can do many things: Piero is the lyrical soul of the trio, Ignazio can do everything, he can sing opera but also Steve Wonder, Queen, he is genius and reckless, he has the most elastic voice, he is eclectic. Piero, on the other hand, is the lyrical soul.
PIERO: From 2009 to 2015 in Italy only mothers and grandmothers knew us, then with the new song and with the victory in Sanremo everything changed, we also brought young people closer. I would never have listened to someone my age singing O’ Sole Mio. Abroad we have found people who go crazy for bel canto. Non-Italians abroad: there are none in Japan, they are Japanese who love Italy.
IGNAZIO: We managed to keep the tradition alive. Now it’s time to work on new music, always maintaining that bit of tradition.
GIANLUCA: I have never listened to Del Monaco, I preferred De André or Gaber to virtuosity, who teach me to doubt, to be an empty container and to look at the world.
What does the world seem like to you?
PIERO:Instinctively they say: these people from Volo are always around, they are rich, famous… But we don’t live outside the world, we know that today more than ever we need discipline, responsibility and determination. What unfortunately many of our peers lack. The men then…
GIANLUCA:Males tend to hide their emotions, low self-esteem leads to anger and violence because they don’t manage their emotions and fragility, they don’t ask for help at the right time.
IGNAZIO: It’s as if fragility were a defect for man. The male cannot cry… More and more, to move me, all I need is a film or a nice evening with friends or with my girlfriend.
PIERO:I hear many things said, but for me the discussion must be reversed. It is not the woman who must defend herself from the man, it is the man who must change.
GIANLUCA: Before working on education we must work on education and sensitivity, but often the first to need it are parents. And who educates adults?
And here is the beautiful paper page of the newspaper.
After this article came out, Fiorello (a well-known Italia entertainer of whom Il Volo has already been a guest in the past) also mentioned Il Volo in his new broadcast, where we hope to soon see Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero also invited.
FIORELLO = Now let’s talk about our friends, IL VOLO, look how beautiful they are! (then he reads the title) . “They tell us that we are the children that everyone would like to have, but success without training has risked ruining us.”
Who wouldn’t want to have three children like this, think of three children like this, you have them at home in the morning at dawn (and he sings a piece of Nessun Dorma) ….at dawn I will win…..and they wake you up like this. 😂
They are beautiful, cute, because they already sang like that, I don’t know if you remember them when they were at Clerici (at TLUC), they were really crazy and tonight there is THE VOICE KIDS (new program hosted by Antonella Clerici where singing children participate).
But if you have read the beautiful interview above well, you will surely have read that Ignazio was connected from Caracas where his partner lives……so this makes the news official: Ignazio is in love again and his new love is called Michelle!!
“Il Volo: Gianluca Ginoble and Piero Barone respond to Corriere della Sera, while Ignazio Boschetto connects remotely from Caracas.”
Gianluca Ginoble and Piero Barone of the musical trio Il Volo participated in an interview with Il Corriere della Sera in Milan, facing the journalist’s questions. However, the third member, Ignazio Boschetto, is physically absent and connected remotely, being in Caracas. The newspaper revealed further details about Boschetto’s private life, revealing the presence of his new partner, Michelle Bertolini, former Miss Venezuela International 2013, who lives in Venezuela.
The gossip that had been circulating in the previous weeks turned out to be true, confirming that the 29-year-old singer has a new flame, with whom he is deeply in love. Ignazio Boschetto visited his girlfriend in Venezuela, thus confirming his relationship with Michelle Bertolini.
Before this relationship, Boschetto was linked to the Brazilian dancer Ana Paula Guedes, but the two would have ended their story in the autumn of 2022. After a period of singleness, Ignazio found love again alongside Michelle Bertolini.
Michelle Bertolini is a well-known figure in Venezuela, born on June 15, 1994. She has had a multifaceted career, having been a professional tennis player, model and beauty queen. After a knee injury that forced her to leave competition in 2012, she has become an established presence in fashion. In 2013 she was elected Miss Venezuela International, representing her country at Miss International 2014.
Currently, Michelle is active in the restaurant industry, having founded Kiko Sake Sushi, and is dedicated to producing wines with her family through Vinos Bertolini. Ignazio Boschetto seems to be deeply involved in the relationship with the 29-year-old, demonstrating his interest and affection for the Venezuelan public figure.
What can I say, the beautiful Michelle is a true “career woman”.
She lives in Caracas but is often in Italy to follow the wine sales.
It seems that the conditions are all there for a “Great Love”, we will see over time, for now we are happy for the two of them! ❤️❤️
Meanwhile, in recent days, Il Volo flew to Germany to participate in Helen Fischer’s show.
The show will naturally be broadcast during the Christmas holidays.
But here is a short video of the participation.
But now here we are at the most important news, which…deep down we’ve all been waiting for…..it’s official:
IL VOLO WILL BE COMPETING IN SANREMO!!!!
Here is the moment on the RAI 1 news when presenter AMADEUS announced the competitors of Sanremo 2024.
And here is the moment in which Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca, flying back from Germany, got the news live.
GIANLUCA= Here we are, here we are….
PIERO= Gentlemen, we’re going to Sanremo!!!
GIANLUCA= Let’s go!
PIERO= Hi guys, see you in Sanremo!
IGNAZIO= Ciao!
What can I say, even if we were waiting for the news we are all amazed.
They always said that they would participate as contestants only if they found the “right” song.
So trust in our three young men and support in everything, also because in the interview they themselves spoke about changes, about turning points, without departing too much from their style.
Surely, given their past with Sanremo and with the Italian press which has always turned the public against them, the three of them will need all our support and all our love. 💗
Let’s sharpen our nails, volovers and get ready to vote for them!
Daniela 🤗
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