(Ciao a Tutti! – Sanremo is being televised on RAI! If you get the channel on your cable, you should be able to record, or at least watch it! I am recording all the days from Tuesday to Saturday!)
HEAR, HEAR, is official, IL VOLO will be in Sanremo.
We all hoped that sooner or later was given this wonderful news, and now it is a reality. Wednesday, February 7, Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, will return on stage of the Ariston after three years from their beautiful and unforgettable victory.
What will they sing? We do not know, but we all know that we will be tuned that night on that program and that our hearts will beat in unison with the hearts of the boys.
Here is the article published in the newspaper Sorrisi e Canzoni:
Unlike previous editions, Baglioni has decided to maintain a greater reserve on its guests (and on which evenings they will perform) and has set a rule for foreigners: they must perform with a tribute to Italy. It will be in fact what they will do Sting (accompanied by Shaggy ) and James Taylor .
As announced by Sorrisi for several weeks, this year they will return to Sanremo, as super guests, the guys from Il Volo who will perform on Wednesday evening.
Among the other Italian stars, however, the presence of Laura Pausini is certain , which on Tuesday evening will celebrate the 25th anniversary of “La solitudine”. On the stage will also go up Biagio Antonacci , Gianni Morandi , Gianna Nannini , the Negramaro, Giorgia and the trio formed by Max Pezzali, Nek and Francesco Renga . Gino Paoli and Danilo Rea will also be at the Festival with the song “Il nostro concerto”, in homage to Umberto Bindi.
Also confirmed during the early evening was the cast of “A casa tutti bene” , a film by Gabriele Muccino in which Pierfrancesco Favino also plays: Stefania Sandrelli, Sabrina Impacciatore, Stefano Accorsi, Valeria Solarino, Massimo Ghini, Carolina Crescentini, Claudia Gerini, Elena Cucci, Giulia Michelini, Gian Marco Tognazzi, Ivano Marescotti and Giampaolo Morelli.
There will certainly be Antonella Clerici , who after the Festival will present the show “Sanremo young”.
And here’s how Valeria Bosch has interpreted the thought of all of us.
Here they are, finally, gathered in Bologna. Today I understood one thing: it is more than fair that they have their times and their spaces in which to live and relax each on their own, but what do you want I tell you, being a fan also means being jealous and possessive. I prefer them so when I see all 3 together, I feel calmer, more “guaranteed” that everything goes well, that the guys work together, that their “wonderful adventure” continues. Now we are anxiously waiting for them to participate in Sanremo. For us volovers the Festival is all contained there, in those few minutes in which we will be allowed to enjoy their art, their song, their emotion. We do not know what they will choose to sing, nor what the comments will be in the press. We are sure of one thing: when they are on stage they will be accompanied by thousands of hearts, scattered throughout Italy and the world, who will fight in unison with them and the applause thunderous and enthusiastic of who will be present in the theater. The public admires them, wants them, loves them, as demonstrated by the tour that last year saw them triumph under all the skies of the planet.
First image of Il Volo gathered in Bologna with some fans before going to Sanremo.
Flashback to…
Video of the first evening in Sanremo back in 2015
when they won!
With the confidence to be able to review our favorites singing again on the stage of Sanremo, the first interviews begin. From today will be a whirlwind of news and video, a real feast, true binge for us fans that we never have enough to see them and hear them.
The transmission where they were interviewed is called Italian Saturday.
Translation:
IS = The boys IL VOLO, the delirium in the studio.
A = Gianluca, Piero and Ignazio are back here. Three years have passed since Grande Amore, from that great success, from the victory, and we can officially announce Piero, we announce him: Super-guests.
P = (joking) We will not be guests in Sanremo
A = You passed by chance here !!
I = We will sing next Monday, when it will all be over. (Ignazio jokes)
G = We are serious, do the serious! We can not say anything, but it is a great honor for us to come back here after three years. We are born we can say on this stage that really gave us so many emotions and we will sing really, really beautiful songs, but we can not tell you anything.
A = Guys, instead I wanted to ask Ignazio, this meeting with Claudio Baglioni, as he called you, did you expect this invitation?
I = Surely it was a pleasure to receive an invitation from Baglioni. We met Claudio the first time eight or nine years ago, so we were still small. Surely Claudio has done and continues to make a great piece of history in Italian music (Baglioni is a highly respected songwriter), so to be with him in this Sanremo is to share an important moment in Italian music.
A = The favorite piece of Baglioni, each of you has one?
I = (humming) Sabato pomeriggio (beautiful song by Baglioni)
P = Piccolo Grande Amore (another beautiful song by Baglioni), we have taken Piccolo and left Grande Amore.
A = E that Grande Amore you left guys.
I can ask you a question, you went along the course to see the plate where it says 2015 Il Volo Grande Amore?
P = No, never.
I = I was going but then I did not get there.
E = Tell me your emotion to return to the Sanremo stage. after your victory, surely I imagine that it is unique.
P = It is the Italian event most awaited by everyone, and I do not hide that when we are abroad we miss not seeing the Sanremo Festival. Returning as super-guests is a great emotion. There is a lot of tension to participate as competitors but as super-guests is a different emotion but, anyway, a lot.
I = We can say that this year we are here too.
A = And you are super-guests, so we make the announcement to all the fans and the volovers, right?
G = Yes, and an equally important announcement is that we are working on new music that will soon be released. It will be a surprise for everyone. We can not tell you anything else, because it is particular.
E = Listen, here we have Zanicchi (good Italian singer), who has won three of the Sanremo festival.
Z = Hello, I risk saying banalities, good luck, you are very good, they all love you.
E = They are also considered the ambassadors of the bel canto all over the world. You tour the world practically. Where have you been, the last time? Tell us a little where you went. Let us enter into your life.
I = As Gianluca said, we are preparing this new project that will be released very soon, we have been in Miami to record it, we will soon be back to record the music video.
G = We can say that we are working with the great Emilio Esteffan, with Gloria Esteffan. You will remember the song Conga? There will be many surprises.
A = Boys should go ….
G = (addressed to Zanicchi) We have never met …
Z = Why not, we met on the scale a few years ago all’Ariston, do you remember? No, you mistook me for another one.
G = I made a bad impression I apologize in front of everyone (everyone laughs)
Z = Good luck guys
G = We hope to see everyone soon, see you here, kisses, kisses.
E = Good, good, you can not say much about what they do, you can imagine. Hi guys, but one of you three found his girlfriend around the world? No girlfriends here!
The boys with Claudio Baglioni, presenter and artistic director of the Sanremo festival 2018
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In these days, the middle school was inaugurated in Naro, and Piero was present.
The school was already existing but was closed for several years due to restructuring.
In this video that I send you there is the speech that Piero has done in front of the students and their parents.
Bravo Piero !!!
I translate Piero’s speech for you.
When I was in elementary school, they told me that in the first year of middle school teacher NISI had the students sing, so this was the exam I had to overcome, and I could not wait to start middle school.
I found myself in the first desk and teacher Nisi says “Piero Barone, sing!” and I sang such UN AMORE COSI’ GRANDE as the first song.
The mayor indicates with his finger to Piero the teacher Nisi and Piero confirms, saying “yes she is here” – (applause)
So you guys are in good hands. Of course I do not hide that my favorite moment of the school day was the recreation for to eat the sandwich or lunch time. I did not like the gym because I was that chubby.
Today I see so many guys that I meet on the street and maybe many do not know them, but the heart is filled with joy to see many guys with musical instruments.
This is the message that I always try to send to children and especially parents, to give a musical instrument to their children. Today the majority of the time we spend in front of the phone and we waste a lot of time.
Congratulations really guys, because we see that there is so much effort, so much dedication. Congratulations to the teachers because it is not easy for you students “to play the musical canon” that is, each chasing a different time.
I trained at your age with the choir in Agrigento, but the message is addressed to you students, who can always try to play an instrument, to learn something about music, even in art and even in the gym with physical education , because it is from the small things that the great passions are born.
Congratulations to those who have done this wonderful job. I remember this school in which I spent a year, “a year or two years?” (asks confirmation to the teacher Nisi who confirms one year) then there was the restructuring.
Anyway guys, good luck, study and be patient with the teachers, what can you do?
Keep it up, love yourself, I love you, and AD MAIORA.
How sweet our Piero when he talks about his teacher.
Sunday, December 31, in the newspaper the Arena, appeared this article that updates us on the movie UN AMORE COSI’ GRANDE. Here is the translation of the most interesting part.
GREAT SCREEN, THE LYRICA FLIES IN THE WORLD
“A return of image for our city thanks to the participation of the three tenorini de IL VOLO”
While we are still discussing the fate of opera in Verona, the best part of the city of Verona, is ready to debut on the big screen with “UN AMORE COSI’ GRANDE” the film produced by the Verona A.C. Production by Michele Calì and Federica Andreoli. It hopes to bringyoung people closer to the world of opera through a love story that promises to fascinate film and opera lovers of different latitudes.
In addition to the distribution in Italian cinemas, in fact, expected between late February and early March 2018, the film will land in 47other countries, “with great image return both for our beautiful city, where most of the scenes were shot (Arena, Sala Maffeiana, Teatro Filarmonico), and for the lyrical tradition for which Verona is, and must continue to be, ambassador in the world,“comments Calì.
The plot, already involving for the subject, also plays another winning card: the friendly participation of IL VOLO, a fresh and young presence, like the two protagonists of the film, Giuseppe Maggio and Francesca Loy, all witnesses, each in his own role, of the prodigiousness of music, and in particular of belcanto.
“A challenge, also for us producers” adds Calì, “to bring Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca on the set, to interpret themselves. We were the first to succeed and this made us believe even more in the project, obviously also appreciated from the three world-famous artists.”
………………the article continues talking about the subsidies and other non-leading actors.
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Also on you tube appeared this video interviewing the main actress, Francesca Loy.
You can activate the simultaneous translator, however at the beginning questions are asked about the plot. She says that she can not reveal much because the film has not yet come out.
It is a love story that takes place between St.Petersburg and Verona, two guys who meet and one of them is passionate about opera.
At minute 4.59 Francesca Loy answers questions about the Flight that I’m going to translate.
* Recall that also recite the three guys of IL VOLO, Ignazio Piero and Gianluca, winners of Sanremo in 2015. Tell us a little gossip, how was acting with them, what types are they?
F= So, I’ll tell you, they are first of all very nice guys, just handy, not at all arrogant, they do not even seem famous. You realize that when one evening I went out with Gianluca. We went to Piper (a local in Verona) and he was very quiet, that is, very simple people.
It was exciting, because still hearing them sing live, it is an indescribable emotion.
* Are they as strong as they feel on television?
F = Yes, absolutely yes, they are very nice, all three, especially with Ignazio. I laughed a lot, they are really sweet and very nice guys.
On December 16th the Karkinos Prize was held in Agrigento, an award that is recognized to the excellence of the Agrigento area.
Piero is from Naro which is in the province of Agrigento. He is beingrecognized for the special prize for music.
Here is the translation of what was said:
“Special Award Karkinos 2017 for Music goes to Piero Barone”
(Piero is seated next to his mother, and a video clip shows Piero’s moments.)
The presenter says she is not used to all these people and all these flashes and thanks Piero for being there. Everyone knows the load of commitments that IL VOLO has and having Piero present is a greathonor.
She goes on to say that Piero was one of the first to arrive on that day and was present all the time. This makes it clear how much Piero is a correct person who is keeping this presence.
Piero is asked what effect this has to receive this award in his land.
Piero replies that he spent his childhood coming every Saturday afternoon from Naro with his dad to sing in the chorusof voices of S.Cecilia and that everything was born from there. Being recognized in his land is the most beautiful thing, gives him somuch satisfaction, and tonight sees so many faces he knows.
Yesterday evening he arrived from Mexico to attend this award.
Carmelo Cantone Carmelo is called to deliver the award. He says that Piero is an undisputed international star, and that it was for two months that it was uncertain because, ….. he comes, he does not come. The father of Piero helped by updating him on his travels. He was in Japan, then in Mexico when Carmelo asked Gaetano, “but when does he return?” Gaetano said “almost certainly” but this “almost” was not a certainty and then Gaetano sent him a message that yesterday he was at the airport to get Piero and Carmelo was finally reassured.
Piero continues by saying that he and Ignazio and Gianluca with Torpedine have founded a new record label to give space to youngtalents, and three of these are Sicilian.
Then talking about his land, Piero says that two weeks a year he has a summer rest. He passes this time in San Leone, in his land. He could go to the Maldives, but those who want to see him say to come to San Leone, in his Sicilia.
Another award is given to Piero, executed by a jeweler craftsman who makes jewelry dedicated to those who love Sicily and Piero as anambassador in the Sicilian world is an example. The jewel depicts a Trinacria (symbol of Sicily).
A floral tribute is then given to Piero and then the Karkinos prize with the following reasons:
“The Karkinos Prize Commission is pleased to award the special prize for music to Piero Barone for his planetary success in the field of music. Piero Barone, despite his very young age, with his important artistic achievements, has highlighted his land of origin all over the world with humility and pride. The love for his land and his passion for music have made it a masterly example to follow for the many talents of our territory. “
Piero receiving the award says that he is from Naro, was born in Naro, and always returns to Naro where there are many people who love him and these people with the mayor have dedicated a wing of the Castle ofNaro to him, as Piero Baron houseteca. At the beginning he thought “but I’m not dead, I do not want a museum” (everyone laughs) but the housetca has become a reference point for all the fans who follow him and there is a bulletin board dedicated to the prizes and this award will go there.
Piero then says that the success they achieved in Sanremo is not only due to them but to everyone’s affection and explains that he sees his work as that of any craftsman (shoemaker, coachbuilder), he explains that the fans are his clients and he could NEVER deny them an autograph or a photograph.
Then he says that Grande Amore was the song that consecrated themto the public and that he lives in Bologna because he undertook the study of opera for his personal satisfaction.
In the end Piero thanks the audience saying that he really loves everyone.
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