Sometimes it happens….. I was by chance scrolling through the various videos on YouTube, to look for something interesting on our favorite topic: Il Volo, who had just given a concert in Pompeii the day before, and so by chance, I came across a truly unique video, a story, a beautiful story that moved me and I immediately thought of publishing it to you to let you participate in this beautiful dream come true!!
Francesca’s story is beautiful and moving, the explanation that I translate for you is attached to her video:
IL VOLO: CAPOLAVORO ❤️ When a little girl’s dream becomes reality! It’s 2015. Francesca is 10 years old, she loves Il Volo boys, she listens to them often, she learns all their songs. So mum and dad decide to surprise her, they organize themselves with another mum and her little friend (Anna) and take them to the concert in Roccaraso for the zero date of the tour. Francesca doesn’t imagine anything, so we decide to give each of them a t-shirt, which we have printed, we give them to them and they immediately wear them. While we wait to enter the concert, we see from afar the guys from Il Volo who are about to enter the building, we get to know them and it’s an immense joy. Francesca is super happy, we are even more than her, we leave that concert with our hearts full of happiness!!! After a few months Francesca began studying the cello at school.
9 years pass, Francesca is 19 years old and is called to play the cello with a wonderful orchestra that will accompany the VOLO guys, she comes to tell us, but we don’t believe her, we think she’s playing a joke on us, but that’s not the case!!! Exactly after 9 years he sees them again and plays on stage where they sing their hearts out and a dream comes true!!!
From the end of the video, we see Francesca playing in the concert in Cattolica, then Marostica, then the splendid Venice.
But the dream continues and Francesca also plays in Pompeii, here is the video of her entering Il Volo singing “Nelle tue mani” and Francesca is there on the stage, sitting and playing cello, in the right corner of the video!!
Wonderful!!❤️
And the dream doesn’t end because Francesca will also play in Lanciano, here she with her cello, is in the photo of the entire orchestra, in the left corner.
By the way, the orchestra in which he plays is the Franciacorta Symphony Orchestra, a town very close to my home, and is directed by maestro Edmondo Savio.
How wonderful, I don’t know about you, but I was enchanted by this beautiful story and I wanted to translate it for all of you.
I tried to contact Francesca, leaving messages under her videos, but I didn’t get a response, which is a shame because I would have liked to ask her more about her beautiful story.
I will try to send this post to Francesca somehow and hopefully she will like it and reply to us.
Great Francesca, congratulations on your studies which have truly resulted in a dream come true. ❤️
Music, voice and energy: “Il Volo” conquers the Pompeii Amphitheatre
POMPEII. In the evocative setting of the Pompeii Amphitheatre, the famous Italian trio “Il Volo” offered an unforgettable evening to all the spectators present. The Pompeian stage of the “Tutti per uno – Capolavoro” tour saw the enthusiastic participation of an audience of all ages, who packed the arena in an atmosphere that perfectly combined music and antiquity.
For “Il Volo” it is a welcome return to the excavations of Pompeii, after the event that saw them perform in the Teatro Grande in 2015. What better occasion, therefore, to “celebrate” the milestone of the first 15 years of activity together even in the shadow of Vesuvius?
The trio, composed of the tenors Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto and the baritone Gianluca Ginoble, brought to the stage a varied repertoire, ranging 360 degrees across the musical panorama: from cinema soundtracks to famous arias from the Italian opera tradition, from homages to the great of pop music, up to the international successes of pop music.
Accompanied on stage by the orchestra directed by Edmondo Savio, their performance once again demonstrated the unique ability of “Il Volo” to combine impeccable vocal technique with overwhelming passion.
The opening of the concert was marked by the song “Nelle tue mani”, theme of “Il Gladiatore”, which immediately captured the attention of the spectators, transporting them into an epic and solemn atmosphere, perfectly suited to the place. The audience responded with warm applause, creating an immediate bond between artists and spectators.
After A love so great and “ Nessun Dorma”, the long-awaited greeting from the trio: «Good evening Pompeii!» which unleashes the first interminable applause from the audience, including, exceptionally, the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano.
The “Tutti per uno – Capolavoro” tour also highlights the individualities of the three artists who have been sharing a unique musical path for five decades, on the common thread of a pop-lyrical original. Ignazio thus decides to pay homage to Pino Daniele and touches us deeply with his interpretations of “Resta cu’ mme” and “Quanno chiove”.
Gianluca remembers the beginning of Elvis Presley’s career, an episode of one day from 70 years ago, and then sings “Can’t Help Falling in Love”. Finally, it is Piero’s turn to give a (further) test of his qualities as a tenor with “E lucean le stelle.”
The trio comes together to offer four highly applauded songs that unleash the desire of the fans to sing: “Se Telephone”, “Capolavoro” (the song that “Il Volo” brought to Sanremo 2024), “Frammenti di Universo” and “Miserere “. Then again solo parentheses that enhance the individuality and sensitivity of the three artists. Ignazio moves with “At least you in the universe”, Gianluca excites with “La Cura” while Piero excites everyone with “Maravilla”.
We return together for Nuovo cinema cielo, for “My way” by Frank Sinatra and for “Hallelujah” which in the intentions of “Il Volo” becomes a sort of “prayer” «for the victims of these difficult years which have seen the pandemic, natural disasters and wars , which we now thought we could only read in history books.”
For the next piece, “Here’s to you”, Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca give the audience a welcome surprise by getting off the stage and walking in the audience, while their fans are almost in disbelief. Then we return to the stage for the final rush, which sees L’estasi dell’oro follow one another, before “ Il mondo all’ incontrario” and “Ad Astra” which belong to their latest album Per aspera ad astra. And they still cannot be missed: “Caruso” (among the most emotional moments of the show), “Who wants to live forever” and “Il mondo.”
But isn’t there still a piece missing from the set list? Obvious, and it is the one loudly requested by the fans throughout the evening: it is “Grande Amore” with which the Trio triumphed in Sanremo in 2015. The powerful and harmonious voices of the trio echoed in the amphitheatre, giving the public a moment of pure ecstasy. The evening ended with thunderous applause and ovations, with Il Volo thanking the public and Pompeii for the warm welcome.
Of this second video, I’ll translate the conversations between the guys so you can laugh a little. 😂
Gianluca tells his companions that the people welcomed them with festive shouts and Ignazio replies that he would have preferred them to greet them with kebabs in their hands (an Abruzzo specialty, roasted meat strung on sticks).
Then Gianluca reads some signs held by people and it says “THE CAPOLAVORO IS YOU” and Ignazio says: “Be careful not to mix up the lines, otherwise it reads: YOU CAPOLAVORO ARE THE” 😂😂😂😂
Then Gianluca says that he is happy to be there to celebrate 15 years of career and Piero he says that in all the concerts Gianluca always asks if there are any people from Abruzzo and he can’t find any so Ignazio confirms that tonight they are all from Abruzzo and therefore Gianluca is happy and says: “Finally at my house.”
Then Piero asks if there are any Sicilians and someone answers and then Piero says: “You see, they are always there, whereas you from Abruzzo are always here, you never move.”
MISERERE
How beautiful is this video below shot by Ercole Ginoble, what emotion and what pride.
How nice to see such intense participation of the people and…..have you noticed how many young people???
SE TELEFONANDO
During CAPOLAVORO it happens that Gianluca takes little Ambra from the audience, how sweet these images are. 🥰
Gianluca’s words are beautiful in this video below, and I will translate them for you:
“While I’m here, I want to say hello to all my family who are all here, you’re all here, but above all my grandfather Ernesto who is right there, grandfather get up! Great grandfather! And grandmother Teresa too, here they are. I love you, I love you, thank you, I am very happy, moved, excited. Thank you! 😍
And how beautiful, touching, sweet is this special hug to Grandpa Ernesto? Incredible and so sweet!! ❤️
I won’t add anything else, but it’s clear that Abruzzo welcomed Il Volo with great warmth. 🤩
So far the Italian tour is going very well, even the comments made by the press and people are nice and the local radio stations are highlighting the concert.
It’s a shame that Barbara isn’t there to see these successes! 😥
A nice roundup of photos of Lanciano.
In the next photo a restaurateur delivers to Gianluca (I think during the rehearsals) the famous meat kebabs, specialties from Abruzzo. 🤩
But how beautiful are these latest photos of Lanciano? In one shot so much emotion and complicity.
These photos really make us understand that Il Volo is a large extended family. 🤩
Gianluca and Torpedine ❤️❤️
Gianluca with his father, Ercole ❤️❤️
Ignazio, Gianluca, Ercole and Ernesto ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Ercole and Piero ❤️❤️
22 July – FLORENCE
The concert is held in Pratolino, near Florence, in the Medici Park of the beautiful Villa Demidoff, within the framework of the MUSART.
FRAMMENTI DI UNIVERSO
UN MONDO ALL’INCONTRARIO
AD ASTRA
SE
This video below is shot by IL VOLO FINLAND and published with these words in Florence on 22.7.24.
Il Volo‘s performance was touching and elegant, even devout in places.
Unbelievable experience in Pratolino Medici park.
⭐⭐⭐
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER
This is the dedication of those who filmed:
“One of the best concerts I have ever seen. Il Volo, Italian pride. Prodigies!!!”
These three videos that follow were published with this beautiful dedication:
One of the most magical evenings of my life… ✨🌌
Thank you from the bottom of my heart… ❤️
An invincible group that proves that true friendship between professionalism and fame can still be possible… 💪🏼🙌🏼 You are truly the best!🔝🎶🇮🇹
“Musart Festival Florence 2024” – Il Volo concert in Pratolino
Il Volo, the most famous Italian trio in the world, performed last night in concert at the Musart Festival Florence in the evocative setting of the Medici Park of Pratolino, a handful of kilometers from the city centre.
Il Volo is the trio formed by the talented Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble and with the summer tour “Tutti Per Uno – Capolavoro” they decided to celebrate 15 years of career and long friendship with the Italian public, bringing the new songs from the first album of unreleased songs “Ad Astra” released last March. Among the songs performed, also the single “Capolavoro”, presented at the last Sanremo Festival.
In addition to the unreleased songs, Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero thrilled the audience with a setlist full of emotions, attempting the greatest hits of the Italian and international musical tradition, showing the many facets of the artistic evolution of its individual members. In fact, there were many moments in which each of them performed singing individually, thus also giving space to the telling of anecdotes and memories linked to the personal history of each of them.
There were also some real moments of entertainment with which the members of the trio demonstrated, once again, that they know how to entertain the public not only thanks to their undeniable singing skills.
Another magical evening in front of the Giant of the Medici Park of Pratolino.
And to end on a high note, I propose this beautiful article by OK MUGELLO, I was really happy to read the beautiful and sincere words of the author Massimiliano Miniati.👏👏👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩
Il Volo in concert – All the emotion between opera and pop
On the stage of the Musart Festival “Tutti Per Uno – Capolavoro” the tour of the 15 years of activity of “Il Volo”, the most famous Italian trio in the world…
I make amends, when they came out of Clerici’s talent show, three kids singing and posing as grown-ups left me a bit annoyed, then they grew up and last night in the Pratolino park, I discovered that they have become “Great” not only of age and, what I had decided to go and see more for “news purposes” than for pleasure, turned into a truly extraordinary event.
On the stage of the Musart Festival “Tutti Per Uno – Capolavoro” the tour of the 15 years of activity of “Il Volo” the most famous Italian trio in the world which was welcomed by the applause of an oceanic crowd who had reached the park of Villa Demidoff with every means made available by the organizers.
They open as a trio, then a piece each as soloists: Ignazio Boschetto sings and makes everyone’s skin crawl with “Almeno tu nell’Universo”, Gianluca Ginoble “Can’t Help Falling in Love” and Piero Barone “E lucean le stelle “ and from that moment it is a succession of emotions and applause with a deliberately pandering set list which, sooner or later, manages to drag you into the vortex of notes, whether you are a lover of opera or pop music.
They sing “Se Telephone” “Capolavoro” (the song presented at the last Sanremo) “Miserere” “The sea, impetuous at sunset…” Then one of the songs from the new album, the beautiful “Succede” and again a tribute to Morricone with the soundtrack of “Nuovo cinema cielo” which they transformed into “Se” and from the new album “Il mondo all’incontrario”.
They ask to turn on their cell phone flashlights and sing “Hallelujah” as the park transforms into a beautiful carpet of white lights. Then again Morricone with “Here’s to you” which Gianluca Ginoble comes down to sing in the audience, the inevitable “Caruso” and a thrilling interpretation by Piero Barone of “Who Wants to Live Forever” and in trio (and all the audience who sings) with “Il mondo”.
Inevitable ending with “Grande amore” of this beautiful concert, full of emotions, great music and three great voices that made everyone understand that those three kids have become great, indeed very great and to me that sometimes being a little prejudiced is wrong and that, it is not easy to change your mind, but fortunately, sometimes “It happens”! (Succede)
This beautiful video of Hallelujah was taken by the author of the article.
I thank our friends Yukio and Kumico for recording the entire video with Ignazio’s words which I translate……what a heart these guys have!! 🤩
So, I wasn’t supposed to play the guitar this evening, but I decided to play it because there’s something beautiful about it. Basically, this guitar was given to me by Mr. Paoletti who is Tuscan and has a huge company that is growing in Italy but is famous all over the world, he makes some crazy guitars.
I’m not here to advertise because he gave me the guitar, but because together with them, who are fantastic people, a very serious company, we came up with this idea at the end of the tour, to give this guitar away by auctioning it and donating all the proceeds from the children of S. Orsola in Bologna (Applause) All this together with Paoletti, then maybe on our social networks we will put “auction starting 0.2 cents, a bit like E-Bay, remember E-Bay, is it still there?
Here, so and the proceeds will be given there, and now I will try to make a bad impression with the guitar. (The song IL MARE IMPETUOSO AL TRAMONTO begins.)
On March 12th there was a beautiful press conference in Pompeii “POMPEII IS ART”, held by the MIC (Ministry of Culture) in which the concerts that will be held this year in Pompeii were presented.
I want to point out to you that in this conference there was really “consideration” and also very nice words towards Il Volo.
As people took their seats, there was Makari music playing in the background (it wasn’t added to the video, it was played in the conference) and at the end of the conference Capolavoro will be played!
The conference is very long and I will not translate every speech for you but only the direct and quick one made by Il Volo and I will summarize the other speeches.
It was a very interesting press conference with important guests.
The speaker at the beginning invites you to begin and introduces the guests:
The Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano
The undersecretary of culture Gianmarco Mazzi
The director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park Gabriel Zuchtriegel
The mayor of the municipality of Pompeii, Carmine Lo Sapio
The artists of Il Volo: Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble.
Undersecretary Mazzi begins by presenting a video of Ludovico Einaudi (pianist composer who will give one of the concerts) who in the video reiterates that he is happy to play in a site like Pompeii.
Mazzi thanks everyone present and says he is a supporter of coexistence between artists and places of culture, he finds it a natural alliance because in his opinion artists bring life to monuments and these archaeological sites. Artists are ambassadors of beauty and culture, they talk about art, they communicate emotions.
He also appreciates a less elitist and more pragmatic approach to culture.
“Artists, especially singers, are very important because they very often represent a crucial first step in the education of people, let’s say young people.”
“We know that our task comes from the law, it is the protection of monuments, but also their valorisation and in this, in my opinion, artists can help us a lot.”
Furthermore, Mazzi says that today people are always in contact with the internet world and all the artists who will give these concerts have a lot of presence in this sense, so there will be a lot of diffusion via the web and therefore it will benefit the world of culture, museums, art.
Speaking of Il Volo he says that they have more than 5 million followers and their song Grande Amore has more than 250 million views, so these sites need the contribution of these artists like “bread and butter”. So he thanks Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca who are also ambassadors of Italy in the world, they are known all over the world and carry messages of Italianness everywhere. So Mazzi believes this partnership is essential to also stimulate tourism and all those who love the “Italian style” in the world and that artists such as Il Volo and Bocelli and others certainly contribute to this.
A video of Pooh is shown, then the word is passed to the director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park Gabriel Zuchtriegel.
He says it’s a great honor to be there in that conference with those guests. He talks about the Pompeii site and the archaeological excavations, thanks Minister Sangiuliano for his support in the budget law. The excavations of Pompeii are enormous, they continue to find treasures, but at the same time they must guarantee access to people, to museums, all infrastructures that must be supported and therefore these musical festivals are an opportunity to bring young people closer to the ancient, archeology and also the many travelers and therefore these events that attract people to visit archaeological sites, such as Pompeii, a UNESCO heritage site, must be encouraged.
Russel Crowe’s video follows and then the mayor of Pompeii, Carmine Lo Sapio, speaks.
Lo Sapio says that the city of Pompeii is experiencing a new season. Pompeii is history and thanks to the agreement with the minister of culture and the director of the park they are pushing culture which in Italy is also the engine of the economy and this favors tourism and this influx of tourists to Pompeii has exceeded all expectations and therefore, on behalf of the city, he thanks him for this contribution and will guarantee the support of the infrastructure.
The word goes to Il Volo.
PIERO= Good morning.
IGNAZIO= Good morning everyone
GIANLUCA= Good morning
PIERO= For us it is a great honor to be present here today and in some way try to share our thoughts with you. This year is a very important year for our group because we are celebrating 15 years of career and we could only celebrate them in music, we will start with this two-year tour and as we have always done from day one we try to be promoters of our music and if December was a very important date because we all know that the art of “Bel Canto” has become a heritage of humanity, we do it with infinite passion. I want to conclude, I promised myself not to be verbose, it is often said that Il Volo takes Italian music around the world, but we have always thought that it is this musical and cultural heritage that we have inherited that makes us travel the world and therefore we must to all be very proud of what we have inherited.
GIANLUCA= Yes, it is a great pleasure to be here and thank you for making us part of this wonderful project that promotes beauty, that promotes culture, because culture, like art, is beauty. Beauty strikes us immediately, but behind any kind of beauty, be it works of art like Pompeii or great music like opera, there is a lot of work behind bel canto and beauty can only be appreciated through time, sacrifice and also culture. We try to bring with great passion, this music which is immortal and certainly to combine this great music through the beauties of Italy, starting precisely from Pompeii, it is also one of the objectives, to associate our name also with Pompeii, so it will be a new start, for us too, so thank you very much for everything.
IGNAZIO= Well, there’s little left for me to say, obviously, they said everything, but we can’t be anything but happy to return to Pompeii, the first time was in 2016, if I’m not mistaken, but in another area different from the one where we will perform in July. We are really happy about this opportunity, thank you so much for sending us today. See you in Pompeii, you’re all invited, Piero pays!
And at the end the words were given to the Minister of Culture Sangiuliano who said beautiful words for Il Volo. He begins by thanking everyone present but then focuses on Il Volo.
“…thanks to the artists of Il Volo because meeting them was truly a great pleasure because I am an admirer of theirs, once a colleague from TG1 gave me one of their CDs for my birthday and I then listened to it several times, I didn’t tell them this before, so I’m glad they’re here.”
He continues explaining the notion of beauty, saying that it is a philosophical term, which can be traced back to the extraordinary nature of Italian historical places and asks which of the three boys is from Agrigento, the world of Magna Graecia, while Pompeii is that of Roman times, then there are immaterial beauties, recognized by UNESCO, such as bel canto, therefore the minister compares our singers to artists like those who have handed down concrete beauties to us such as sculptors or painters and therefore by harmonizing everything together, we can celebrate the union between the heritage artistic cultural (archaeological sites) and the Italian excellence of bel canto, therefore two elements that come together and by doing this, article 9 of our constitution which speaks of the protection of artistic heritage but also valorisation through dissemination to the world.
Then he speaks with pride about the latest findings in the Pompeian excavations, and adds that the quality of life today is not only given by comfort but also by culture and today’s tourism is aimed a lot at the study of ancient beauties, it informs itself, it wants to know the history traditions, so what better way to spread all this with bel canto, furthermore these concerts will also bring an interest not only for tourism but also for the citizens of Pompeii and surrounding areas who will be able to participate in these events.
He ends by saying that after you have participated in a good concert and visited a beautiful ancient site, from a cultural point of view you have enriched yourself and that is why they believe a lot in this project, all in the rigorous protection of the sites.
Conference finished, Masterpiece is heard in the background, the usual photos are taken.
Here is a list of artists and the dates they perform in Pompeii:
Carmen Consoli (8 June);
John Legend (11 June);
Russell Crowe (9 July);
Ludovico Einaudi (12 July);
Il Volo (17 July);
Biagio Antonacci (18,19,20 July);
I Pooh (22 July) and
Francesco De Gregori (26 July).
Naturally the news was reported on the news, I propose this one which has English subtitles to be activated.
Here the subtitles are only in Italian, but at the end things are repeated.
What a wonderful initiative, it will be a magnificent event, a series of concerts in an amazing site. and what a pride to hear the words of the Minister of Culture Sangiuliano towards Il Volo, he publicly admitted to being a fan of theirs.
I await your comments, I imagine you would like to be present in Pompeii during the Il Volo concert!!!! I’m keeping my fingers crossed…..who knows!!!
Beautiful presence, interview and mini concert of Il Volo at Radio Subasio during the program Radio Subasio Music Club, interviewed by Katia.
Gianluca Ignazio and Piero, extremely at ease, dressed casually, relaxed, sing live, and what performances, always excellent and their voices, oh what voices!!
Presence of a small admitted audience among which I noticed with great pleasure young girls and many, many males!!
Lots of girls online who will be able to ask questions (they had to make the request to be admitted).
Our boys, in addition to being good, also know how to be very witty, we know it well!
I’m sorry for not being able to insert subtitles and this time there isn’t automatic translation so I’m translating this lovely interview in which I laughed so much!!😂😂😂
KATIA= And here we are, very ready again this evening, good evening everyone, live music is back as the protagonist on Radio Subasio, Radio Subasio Music Club returns this evening with a trio much loved in Italy and around the world. They are celebrating 15 years of their career and at the end of the month they will also do so with a new album called AD ASTRA, and then many dates in Italy and also around the world, in short, a lot of irons in the fire, we will talk about it with them too, but let’s do it straight away a big round of applause to Il Volo!!
(Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero enter and sing Capolavoro)
Hello guys!!
KATIA= Il Volo live, on Radio Subasio, welcome guys.
IGNAZIO= Thanks, hello everyone.
GIANLUCA= Hi Katia, hello everyone.
PIERO= Hi.
KATIA= Hi Piero, hello Ignazio, hello Gianluca.
GIANLUCA= Thanks, hello everyone.
KATIA= How beautiful you are, as well as good, it’s a pleasure to see you….
PIERO= We kept our promise.
KATIA= Absolutely yes, these guys keep their promises, I see you in excellent shape and despite the rumors lately, I also see you very united!
IGNAZIO= (joking) No, no, we broke up!! 😂 In fact, we’re loose now (and points to a circle with his hand) 🤣
KATIA= No, absolutely, also because more often than not, you have talked about how your union, your bond, is probably your strong point in your story, also because you didn’t choose each other, we remember that, you already know it in short, they met and then they were put together…
IGNAZIO= Yes, unfortunately yes.😂😂
KATIA= …..it’s even more difficult this way…
IGNAZIO= Unfortunately yes.😂😂
KATIA= No, come on, the premise isn’t right like that…
IGNAZIO= Well, we took part in a television program and in the end, we were three single singers and we were fine, then they put us together (laughter)...😂
KATIA= And it’s over….
IGNAZIO= … and we’ve been together badly for 15 years….😂
GIANLUCA= (he points to Ignazio) It’s self-deprecating, I don’t know if it’s understood…😂🤣
PIERO= No, because lately perhaps they take us at our word. (they laugh)😂
GIANLUCA= Let’s be careful about what we say.😁… well anyway I believe it is the basis of a lasting relationship, dialogue, understanding and over time we have matured together and grown, since we were 15 years old, we have spent half of our lives together , today we are in our thirties, we met when we were 15, so it’s nice to also send this message of union, I think it’s important.
KATIA= Absolutely yes, absolutely yes.
PIERO= Can we greet the people who are connected via video?
KATIA= And in fact, we greet the fans who are on video connection who will soon interact with you. (they frame all the fans on video link who greet Il Volo by waving their hands).
PIERO= I see a girl in a yellow shirt with a blow-up of Ignazio next to her (everyone laughs) as big as the wall. 😂
IGNAZIO= In that photo I look like Stash (the singer of The Kolors)
KATIA= Here she is, I see it. It is true!!
IGNAZIO= What’s true?? 😳
PIERO= Excuse me, but where is the blow-up of me and Gianluca??🤣🤣
KATIA= I see one with you on the shirt.
PIERO= Ah, there’s the t-shirt, ok…😉
KATIA= We also greet the studio audience, (applause) it seems right to me, they too have come for you and to ask you a few questions, soon they too will have the floor.
Guys, 15 years of a career that you will celebrate in a big way soon also with a new album, I would also talk about this, an album called AD ASTRA and will be released at the end of the month…. How do you say Piero, sorry?
PIERO= This album will be released on March 29th.
KATIA= It will be an interesting album, you’ve said it several times, an album that will allow us to get to know different facets.
GIANLUCA= Unfortunately we can’t sing it today, but we will return to Radio Subasio to sing the songs from the new album, it’s a promise, if you want us it’s obvious, we auto-invite ourselves to sing the songs from the new album.
PIERO= 15 years is a goal, a great goal for us and we have decided to celebrate it, first with the Sanremo Festival, presenting Capolavoro, on March 29th our first album of unreleased songs will be released and then this world tour will follow which will keep us busy for two years. We will leave on April 13th…
KATIA= Exactly, then there will also be 4 dates at the Verona Arena…..
GIANLUCA= However, also at the writing level there was a different maturity, a search for sound and also a search for singing, without losing our personality obviously, but it is the first time that we have dedicated ourselves to a work that speaks 100% our…
IGNAZIO= (tries to cut the conversation) ….come on we only have an hour I want to sing…😁
GIANLUCA= This is important..
KATIA= Indeed it is important..
GIANLUCA= Because we’ve never done it, so…
KATIA= There is a lot of curiosity in this album, then I also heard this thing you were saying in a recent interview, I think it was said by Piero, he said….
PIERO= I only say sensible things…😂
KATIA= Exactly, (laughter) you said “true to yourself, while keeping up with the times”, which is a difficult balance to strike and you are managing it perfectly I would say.
GIANLUCA= And it is perhaps our strength. 🥰
KATIA= Exactly.
GIANLUCA= Without being too nostalgic but not even imitating someone we don’t want and can’t be…
IGNAZIO= Can we sing?? 🤣
KATIA= Not yet, I decide when, he he he, there are also some “featurings” on the album…with Irama…
PIERO= (he seems to want to explain the word to Ignazio) Igna, featuring means collaboration….😂 (laughter)
GIANLUCA= That will surprise you, because in that piece, we managed to find that contrast, as we were saying, we were ourselves and he was Irama, but with our four voices together in harmony, it was, it’s very emotional. ..
PIERO= All four of us create Mahmood’s sound 🤣😂
KATIA= We are even more curious at this point to hear the new album, which I repeat is called AD ASTRA and, as they say PER ASPERA AD ASTRA, through difficulties you reach the stars, in your 15-year journey, what difficulties have you encountered ? Because I believe that every path…
GIANLUCA= Getting to know the two of them 😂🤣
KATIA= Here, you see!
PIERO= But this is a significant title, because through many sacrifices the objectives are achieved, today we live in a reality in which perhaps the message of obtaining everything immediately without a bit of effort, I think is a wrong message, in fact we rejoice more when you reach a finish line after a path that is at times turbulent, but at times also joyful…
KATIA= See how wise you really are!!
PIERO=No, but they were 15 years not only of music and stage..
KATIA= It’s true, it’s true.
PIERO= They were also 15 years, there is our manager Torpedine who can testify to it, they were quite particular 15 years, more beautiful years, less beautiful years, but in the end we are here, with our audience….
KATIA= Who loves you…🥰
PIERO= …. is the most faithful part of this journey.
KATIA= There is Ignazio who wants to say something.
IGNAZIO= Can we sing???🤣😂🤣
KATIA= What do you think, let’s make them sing??
PEOPLE= YesIII
KATIA= So, let’s let those who are listening at home feel a little warmth, a round of applause for Il Volo from Radio Subasio Music Club: MUSICA CHE RESTA.
PIERO= Can you ask the hunchback to go further?
KATIA= Musica Che Resta, live, Il Volo on Radio Subasio. We said it before, here is your audience, both in the studio and at home and they want to ask you questions, so I would start immediately from home via video connection Carmela from Catania. Hi Carmela, welcome where are you?
CARMELA= Hello everyone.
PIERO= Here she is, isn’t she the girl with the blow-up of Ignazio?
KATIA= No, it wasn’t her. Carmela, what do you want to ask Il Volo?
CARMELA= What would you have done if you hadn’t become singers?
GIANLUCA= Probably in place of Borghi on the radio….(he means a person who works on the radio…..laughter)
IGNAZIO= I don’t understand…..😂(Piero tries to explain to Ignazio)
GIANLUCA= Come on, I’m joking, there’s no need to explain… Oh God, maybe I probably would have been an architect.
KATIA= The architect??
GIANLUCA= Yes, probably yes.
KATIA= You, Piero?
PIERO= I would have been the manager who bought the houses built by Gianluca.🤣
KATIA= Right! You Ignazio?
IGNAZIO= (to Piero) The manager???😳
PIERO= No, in any case I wouldn’t be able to imagine my life without music, maybe I would have been a piano teacher.
GIANLUCA= Or the question could be what are your other passions besides music?
KATIA= Exactly.
IGNAZIO= But if she has already asked the question…😂.
KATIA= But actually among the other talents one has, one can also imagine a different path…..
IGNAZIO= When I was little I wanted to be a vet, I always liked animals, and then I don’t know, maybe I would have been a pizza chef , I’m realistic, because we had a pizzeria and so I would have become a pizza chef, yes.
GIANLUCA= Singing pizza chef.
KATIA= An architect, a pizza chef and an entrepreneur, you think, dear, thank you dear (to Carmela), thank you and have a good evening.
IGNAZIO= Hi Carmela.
KATIA= Alice from Belluno is in video this time, hello Alice.
ALICE= Hi
G+I= Hello
ALICE= I wanted to ask you, since you have sung in many important events around the world, if there is an event, a situation that made you think “if we are here singing we really did it”, maybe a dream you had when you were younger.
GIANLUCA= But did we really do it??
IGNAZIO= That’s the problem. That question persists in our heads always, every day, that’s fine because this gives us the desire to do more and more, but personally, one of the moments that we often forget but that we experienced is when we sang for the Nobel Prize Prize, not do we ever remember it, but that was an event…yes the Nobel Prize….
PIERO= Nobel Prize Prize …(makes fun of Ignazio)😁
IGNAZIO= Yes, because what’s his name??
PIERO= But say Premio Nobel (in Italian)
IGNAZIO= Ok, Premio Nobel…
GIANLUCA= It is right to be ambitious, but to enjoy what you achieve, the message must not be conveyed that one is never satisfied, and it is not good, on the contrary, to always enjoy the objectives that one achieves, but always have the ambition to do….(then turning to Ignazio) why are you looking at me?
KATIA= Exactly, never feel like you have arrived because then, unfortunately, if you stop and no longer grow. Thank you, dear Alice.
IGNAZIO= Gianluca makes more noise with his shoes than Heather Parisi (a dancer) when she dances.
KATIA= She could do tap dancing.
GIANLUCA= Like Elio and Le Storie Tese by Lol. (he’s a comedian singer)
KATIA= Exactly Thanks Alice.
Michele from Perugia is here from the studio and wants to ask you a question.
MICHELE= Hi guys….
IGNAZIO= Do you like Gianluca’s shoes? 😳
MICHELE= Beautiful!
PIERO= Do you know who you look like? To the sheriff who was looking for Pablo Escobar in the fiction, if you put teardrop glasses on him, you are him!
KATIA= We found a lookalike, go Michele, go ahead.
MICHELE= First of all congratulations, you have already answered me in part, with the last song of Sanremo you had a slightly more pop twist, and it was also much appreciated. I wanted to know if with future projects, this pop influence, this turning point, will be confirmed or not.
IGNAZIO= It’s not much of an influence, yes, but no. That is, in the sense that in 15 years we have never made a completely unreleased album and we thought it was the right time, also because we have grown up, we have had a lot of experiences that have led us to be what we are today and therefore we think that in Capolavoro but then in what will be the album, Capolavoro will be the perfect bridge and you will then listen to it on the album, because it is not Il Volo distorted or the change of Il Volo it is just actually how Il Volo is in the unreleased ones.
GIANLUCA= However it is clear that…..
IGNAZIO= But why do you always have to add something?? 😂😂😂
I’ve already been exhaustive and you have to exhaust me. I am exhaustive, you are…..🤣
KATIA= Let’s have another fight live so the newspapers will then…..😁😁
IGNAZIO= We broke up, ok, I’ll say it, we’re loose but we sing together. 😂🤣😂
GIANLUCA= Well come on, this time he’s right, there was no need, he had already said everything…
KATIA= Thank you Michele, thank you very much.
We talked about the album before and it was said that this new album was tailored to your personalities which are different but complementary. I ask you how you are similar and how you are so, so different.
PIERO= When we talk about “tailor-made” it is because for the first time we have put together a team of authors who have lived with us for about a year, therefore they have witnessed our relationship, our dialogues and above all also our daily discussions , because maybe today, I won’t tell you that we are deeper, but at thirty years old we ask ourselves different questions, so these authors have also observed our thoughts and our discussions and this album yes, talks about love but not only, it also talks about many questions we ask ourselves about life and why we are here singing and many other things….
KATIA= But I wanted to know more about your personalities, your characters, if there is one thing in which you are completely different…
IGNAZIO= Let me explain, Gianluca and I are completely different, me on the positive side and him on the negative side.
GIANLUCA= Maybe it’s the opposite. 😁
IGNAZIO= I’m talking about poles, I’m talking about poles, in that sense…
PIERO= I am the equator. 😂
IGNAZIO= He (Piero) is the equator, yes. He (Gianluca) is just the opposite of what I am.
KATIA= Let’s go with live songs on Radio Subasio Music Club…
IGNAZIO= We broke up…😂😂
KATIA= They don’t leave each other…. Il Volo, ANCORA a success by Edoardo De Crescenzo we listen to it live from Il Volo!
Great, Il Volo, ANCORA live on Radio Subasio. While we are chatting with Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, thanks also to the contribution of our audience here in the studio, Martina, right, Martina from Spoleto wants to ask you a question, go Martina.
MARTINA= So, when you leave for your tour….
IGNAZIO= …..what shouldn’t be missing in your suitcase….
MARTINA= …the three things that cannot be missing from your suitcase, well done!
PIERO= But three things, one, one, one, or three things each?
MARTINA= Three things each.
PIERO= Ok.
MARTINA= Don’t tell me socks or….
IGNAZIO= But let’s play a reverse game, you (to Piero) say about me and I say about you….
PIERO= About you, then… the computer that weighs a lot for doing live twitches, all the equipment for recording…
IGNAZIO= Yes…
PIERO= And then…
IGNAZIO= The underwear..😁
PIERO= …but at least once, you bring the razor!! Because you should know that when we are on tour he always forgets the razor, knocks on the room: “Can you lend me the razor?”..😁
IGNAZIO= Don’t laugh (to Torpedine) because you forget the razor too. 😁
IGNAZIO= You instead. (to Piero)
GIANLUCA= The giant headphones..
IGNAZIO= No, definitely running shoes, glasses, sure, not a book, but the computer with which you read the news in the morning.
PIERO= Well done.
KATIA= This is proof that they know each other well. Gianluca, someone has to tell about you.
IGNAZIO= I say so. Gianluca high heels,😂 books, never-ending books, he reads ten books a week, and then the third thing, I don’t know… the embarrassing clothes. 😂
PIERO= Clothes for going to the gym.
IGNAZIO= No, the embarrassing clothes.
KATIA= But are all three of you sportsmen? I know you run a lot, you’ve even done the marathon..
PIERO= Can I show you the wallpaper on my cell phone?
KATIA= Yes, yes, I want to see it, let’s see what the background is.
IGNAZIO= He runs away, no one knows from whom, but he runs away. 😁
PIERO= Look how beautiful?
KATIA= The New York marathon, fantastic, then is it true Piero that you do 20 km on the treadmill? When I read this… but there are many, but every morning?
PIERO= Or you’re crazy.
KATIA= Either you are crazy or you are crazy.
IGNAZIO= But he only did it once, once.
KATIA= Oh yes?
PIERO= I had to train and I couldn’t go out, it was raining and I had to get ready, but if I don’t do them on the treadmill I’ll do them outside.
IGNAZIO= He had to get ready to go out, because before leaving the room he gets ready by doing 20 km on the treadmill, understand?😂
KATIA= Of course, of course.
IGNAZIO= It’s a preparation, there are those who do skincare (Gianluca) and those who run 20 km inside the house. 😂
KATIA= Everyone prepares in their own way.
GIANLUCA= I get made fun of for skincare, understand?
KATIA= But skincare is important, now if we want to open a debate….
IGNAZIO= Absolutely, even the curlers…
GIANLUCA= Do you do skincare? (to Ignazio)
KATIA= Don’t you do skincare? (to Ignazio)
IGNAZIO= No, I do it, but I started doing it. I go to bed and I have my girlfriend who gives me all the skincare.
GIANLUCA= She does it for him, for his laziness.
KATIA= Do you understand? Thank you dear. Still from the studio, let’s go to Francesca from Ischia, how wonderful (Ischia is a beautiful island), here she is Francesca, it’s your turn.
FRANCESCA= A merit and a flaw of the other.
IGNAZIO= A merit and a flaw, Maria!😁
KATIA= Go, let’s open fire.
GIANLUCA= So, Ignazio is a good boy.
KATIA= Good?
GIANLUCA= Yes, he is the nicest person….🥰
IGNAZIO= …to eat?😁
GIANLUCA= Yes, he is tasty…
PIERO= Defect: He’s messy.
IGNAZIO= I’m not messy at all, you don’t know me.
GIANLUCA= The biggest flaw is that he is touchy, the most touchy person in the world.
KATIA= He ties it to his finger and won’t let you pass it.
PIERO= (to Ignazio) Aren’t you messy? Why do you wear a hat? Because you forgot to do your hair. 😂
IGNAZIO= Absolutely not, I wanted to wear the hat because it matches what I wore, and I decided to wear the hat, look, I also wear it backwards.😁
KATIA= I said that now it ends in an argument….
IGNAZIO= We broke up, we are dissolved.😂🤣😂
KATIA= At the end of the evening we will announce it officially. Piero, merit and flaw, about Gianluca.
PIERO= Merit……
IGNAZIO= I’m not saying it because the list would be very long…🥰
GIANLUCA= Flaw above all.😁
PIERO= Wait, flaw: stubborn. Merit……(Ignazio tries to suggest in a low voice)
KATIA= Ignazio would you like to add..
PIERO= Merit: he is very sensitive.🥰
KATIA=Okay, come on, sensitive and stubborn.
GIANLUCA= Piero is very thoughtful and determined,🥰 and then a flaw….
IGNAZIO= Authoritarian! 😂
PIERO= I’ve been told for years that I’m authoritarian! 😂
KATIA= Authoritarian why? Does he lay down the law?
IGNAZIO= My goodness, he lays down the law. 😂
KATIA= That is, things have to be done as he says?
IGNAZIO= Here we have the Sicilian Pion Peng (he means a dictator). 😂
KATIA= Piero, what do you say in your defense? Because here, in short….
PIERO= I submit.
KATIA= Do you submit?
GIANLUCA= Mitsubishi. (he plays on the pronunciation) 😂
KATIA= So thanks to our friend Francesca and also from the studio there is Tomas from Arezzo. There he is.
IGNAZIO= Hi Tomas.
TOMAS= Hi guys, my question is this: What was the motivation for calling you Il Volo?
IGNAZIO= I wonder that too 🤣🤣…….we were thinking of a name…
PIERO= You have to leave a little early. In 2010 we signed a contract with an American record company, Interscope, Universal.
The president was Jimmy Iovine, do you know the one who invented the beats? (headphones)….
IGNAZIO= He doesn’t know, but he invented them…🙄
PIERO= Yes, come on, there’s also……
GIANLUCA= Let’s say he started out far away.😂…..now he’ll sell you headphones.🤣🤣🤣
IGNAZIO= What is he interested in knowing who Jimmy Iovine is???…
PIERO= But it’s right to contextualise….
KATIA= You made the premise…
GIANLUCA= (to Tomas) Did you bring the cash? 😂🤣😂🤣 (to pay for the headphones that Piero sells him)
PIERO= We sat down with Jimmy Iovine of Ischia origins, Iovine (he pronounces it in Italian) is his surname, and we decided on a short Italian name that was easy to pronounce, but we didn’t take into account all the countries in the world, Il Volo is only pronounced well in Italy. 😁
IGNAZIO= But it’s not true!
KATIA= Oh yes, why?
PIERO= Come on Ignazio….Vro is in Japan 😂🤣🤣
IGNAZIO= Okay but those are some characteristics…
PIERO= Do you know what they called us in America one day? The Volvo. 😂🤣
IGNAZIO= No, in Germany.
PIERO= No, we were in America in Los Angeles, the name Volvo was on the dressing room, next to us we were missing Fiat and Chrysler (all car brands)😂
IGNAZIO= Hidden advertising, sorry. (applause)
KATIA= Thanks Tomas.
Radio Subasio, live Il Volo, or rather Il Volvo 😂: GRANDE AMORE.
KATIA= Il Volo, live on Radio Subasio, Grande Amore, a song that takes us back to a Sanremo Festival a few years ago.
GIANLUCA= Nine years ago.
KATIA= Mom guys, it seems like yesterday.
GIANLUCA= We were twenty years old, think about it.
KATIA= What memories do you have of that Festival and that moment when you were nominated.
GIANLUCA= It’s one of the best memories of our career, because like it or not, if you win Sanremo you officially go down in the history of Italian music, right?
KATIA= Sure.
GIANLUCA= This represents a bit for us, having entered the history of music with a song which then gave us a lot of satisfaction even abroad. Bringing this music to the new generations has always been our goal and therefore twenty-year-olds winning Sanremo with bel canto was certainly a great satisfaction.
KATIA= It’s true, it’s true, it deserves applause.👏👏👏
The public still wants to chat with you, and there is Valentina from Bastia Umbra in the province of Perugia. Go Valentina.
VALENTINA= I wanted to ask you what your hobbies are as normal guys.
KATIA= Eh, normal guys!! Everyday life.
IGNAZIO= Okay. In the end, it’s not so much being normal or different, this is our normality and it’s more our simplicity, because what we experience is not everyday (meaning it’s not a normal thing), so it’s not so simple, then one can experience it with simplicity but if you go and see it in essence, it is actually not very simple.
Personally, the passions that I live and that I like to live are tennis, paddle and motorbikes. I relax a lot, I take my two motorbikes and go for a day, with both at the same time. 😳😁
It relaxes me a lot, I go to the Bolognese hills…
GIANLUCA= As Cremonini did (Italian singer who lives in Bologna)
KATIA= Like Cremonini did, yes.
IGNAZIO= With wings under your feet…(it’s a phrase from a Cremonini song)
PIERO= He goes there (on the Bolognese hills) on foot and you with the motorbike.
GIANLUCA= Exactly.
KATIA= (to Piero) You do them on foot.
PIERO= My hobbies are….
IGNAZIO= …in fact he had invited me to the marathon and I said: “If they let me come on a motorbike I’ll come.” I’ll do it on a motorbike damn it.
KATIA= Ah, yes, but he couldn’t convince you…
IGNAZIO= No, because you couldn’t wear the bib instead of the license plate, that was the only problem and I couldn’t go. 😁
PIERO= My hobbies are: running 3 times a week, the sea ,if you want to make me happy take me to the sea…..
KATIA= Dear Piero I agree with you..
PIERO=…and then what I like: tennis..
IGNAZIO= I hate sand..
KATIA= Do you hate sand? Really?
IGNAZIO= I can’t do it..
GIANLUCA = Don’t interrupt him, he’s talking..😁
PIERO= Tennis is another great passion of mine and then on Sunday afternoons, leave me on the sofa watching films.
KATIA= Well, you see, you know that I agree with various things. Tennis you two can play then.
PIERO= We always play, twice a week.
KATIA= Oh are you playing? Who wins?
PIERO= (to Ignazio) Shall we play this week?
IGNAZIO= Let’s play, Wednesday afternoon, I’m up for it.
KATIA= You Gianluca?
GIANLUCA= I live by the sea so like Piero (he loves the sea). I live in Roseto degli Abruzzi, indeed I greet all the people of Abruzzo.
KATIA= We salute the people of Abruzzo obviously.
GIANLUCA= We are close, in an hour and a half I arrived (he mean Radio Subasio), we are also close.
Then I really like reading, but also the habits, I live in a town of 300 souls, so having coffee in the morning, taking a walk in the hills, being with my family and my friends, these are the habits of a boy just like you said “normal” which is what we are. We live a parallel life, the important thing is to disconnect, recover, you will recharge and then start again.
KATIA= Thank you very much dear (to Valentina)
I’m going to the video this time and there’s Emanuela from Taormina, talking about the sea.
Emanuela are you there??
EMANUELA= Good evening (she has a strong Sicilian pronunciation, with very open vowels and Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero make fun of her jokingly)
GIANLUCA= Good evening (with the A open) 😂
IGNAZIO= Good evening, good evening, how are you? (with the A and E open), truly (an expression often used by Southern girls) 😂🤣
PIERO= We can hear that you are from Taormina (all with a Sicilian accent), truly, hello. 🤣
IGNAZIO= Hi Emanuela (with the A very open) 😂
GIANLUCA= Precisely an accent from Valtellina (an area in northern Italy) 😂
KATIA= Emanuela see, they welcomed you well!! 😁
PIERO= How are you Emanuela, are you okay?
EMANUELA= Everything okay and you?
IGNAZIO = Too good we say (said in Sicilian dialect) 😂
PIERO= How beautiful your accent is, wonderful!
KATIA= It’s true, it’s true.
PIERO= See while she talks, I imagine Saretto’s granitas at BamBar..🥰🥰
KATIA= Shut up Piero… how painful (she also likes Bambar’s granitas)
GIANLUCA= Yesterday it was Christmas, in a month it’s almost summer, it’s coming, and we’re arriving.
EMANUELA= I’m waiting for you.
KATIA= Emanuela asks your question.
EMANUELA= My question is: “What is your self place outside of home” (she pronounces self place in English)
GIANLUCA= Ignazio what is your self place (he pronounces it all in English)
IGNAZIO= And what is the self place? But why don’t you talk about how you eat, drinkable, drinkable! (Here in Italy there is a habit of using words or phrases in English and Ignazio means to speak in Italian. Everyone laughs)😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
What is SELF PLACE? what is that. (he pretends not to understand)
PIERO= It’s your safe haven.
EMANUELA= Your “safe haven” beyond home and beyond the stage obviously.
IGNAZIO= Ah, the safe place!! Easier.
KATIA= Here you see, it sounds even better, safe haven, safe place come on.
IGNAZIO= What was the question?🤣🤣
EMANUELA= What is the safe place beyond home.
IGNAZIO= Home, I really can’t find anything else, if we talk about “place” like a place, a home: home. There is nothing else, I enter the front door and I feel like God, I feel naked, dressed. Did you understand? I feel good.
GIANLUCA= Does the stage count as an answer or not?
IGNAZIO= Come on, don’t be a philosopher. 😁
KATIA=She said beyond the house and beyond the stage, so she has already ruled it out.
EMANUELA= Beyond the stage.
GIANLUCA= Ah, beyond the stage…
KATIA= You have traveled a lot…
GIANLUCA= Japan, that’s where I feel at home.
KATIA= This is what I wanted to ask you..
GIANLUCA= It’s a completely different culture…
PIERO= In fact he goes out to have coffee with the Japanese…🤣🤣🤣
GIANLUCA= Green tea…
KATIA= What do they drink…sake.
GIANLUCA= Sake.
IGNAZIO= But in fact he doesn’t drink coffee, he goes to the bar and asks for sake.
GIANLUCA= A sakè.
KATIA= But do you also feel good in Japan?
IGNAZIO= Yes, we get on well, but it’s not a “safe haven”, what kind of safe haven is it? (turning to Gianluca)
GIANLUCA= You understand what direction it has taken, come on, let’s move on.
KATIA= Piero go.
PIERO= So, whatever place the sea is in, I repeat what I said before, but there is also a place where I feel safe, wait I’m cheating (superstition): the plane.😳
KATIA= Oh my God!
PIERO= When I’m on the plane I’m very calm…
IGNAZIO= Tell the truth, tell everything properly, the plane what???
GIANLUCA= He gets off the phone.
PIERO= Well done.
GIANLUCA= You are alone with yourself, you have time without anyone and without distractions.
PIERO= You know that you can buy wi-fi on a plane.
KATIA= Yes.
PIERO= I have never done it, maybe once and then I never did it again, because on a plane, even if we have a 12-15 hour flight….
GIANLUCA= 20 – 35, we arrive on Mars…😂😂
PIERO= I turn off, I turn off my cell phone and for those 15 hours alone, reading while being with myself.
IGNAZIO= I have the same feeling, for example I have insomnia problems, I couldn’t sleep at night anymore, calculate that I went to bed at 5.30 am and woke up at 10.00 am, I slept 3, 4 maximum 5 hours a night, really I can’t sleep.
KATIA= How did you solve it??
IGNAZIO= We travelled…..resolved, let’s say I was awake for 10 days and it was resolved, but when we travelled, instead, I got on the plane and slept, and from there I understood that they are the distractions, because you get on the plane and you can’t do anything, so your head knows that you sit, lie down and sleep.
GIANLUCA= Katia has a passion for planes…..(it’s the opposite)
KATIA= Did you understand?
GIANLUCA= I understood it from your look, you see you have a passion for flying (flying =Il Volo). 😃
PIERO= You know what I do on the plane, sometimes, almost always, I get on the plane in “flight” mode (on his cell phone), I reply to all the WhatsApp messages that I may have left behind….
IGNAZIO= Yes because he is a snob..😁
PIERO= It’s not that I’m being a snob, maybe some messages escape you, like the Sanremo period, you get hundreds of messages, on the plane at those times, I reply to all the messages then on the ground, I activate the data mode and send all messages.
KATIA= Obviously talking about the fear of flying with you is not possible, but at the beginning for example, none of the three?
PIERO= No.
GIANLUCA= We have a constant unconsciousness… like children.
IGNAZIO= Consider that as a child I did model airplanes with my father, he built and I piloted.
GIANLUCA= We really don’t think about it.
PIERO= I also gave him (Ignazio) the injections on the plane, one day he had a fever, who knows what it was?
IGNAZIO= I had an infection.
GIANLUCA= I prepared him a plate of pasta on the plane (for Ignazio).
KATIA= Plan B male nurse (to Piero), at this point we have found you another (job), right? Thanks to Emanuela.
EMANUELA = Thank you to you all.
PIERO= Beautiful image (him giving Ignazio the shot on plane).😱
KATIA= The image is actually a little disturbing.
GIANLUCA= Bye Emanuela.
EMANUELA= I’ll wait for you in Taormina.
IGNAZIO= Bye
PIERO= Bye Emanuela.
IGNAZIO= Emanuela speaks “drinkable”! 😂😂(which means speak as simple as the water you drink)
KATIA= Also on video, in Ravenna or Faenza to be precise, there is Veronica. Veronica?
PIERO= Faenza (imitating the pronunciation of the Romagna area) 😁
VERONICA= Hi guys.
IGNAZIO= But that is, we are neighbors (he says it with the pronunciation of Romagna since Faenza and Bologna are in Emilia Romagna)
KATIA= Hi Vero (Veronica), wait…
GIANLUCA= She is one of Piero Barone’s biggest fans
KATIA= Ah, see?
GIANLUCA= Is it true that I remember?
VERONICA= Yes perfect…
PIERO= The girl with the shirt..
VERONICA= I’m the one with the t-shirt.
KATIA= Ah, here’s the t-shirt..
GIANLUCA= But that shirt is 10 years old.
IGNAZIO= I am sorry for you. 😂
VERONICA= Yes, I’m 20 now, yes I was 12.
IGNAZIO= Mamma mia! She really grew up.😳
GIANLUCA= So today you are 21 if mathematics…
VERONICA= In July, 21 years old, YES.
KATIA= Your fans are also growing.
VERONICA= I grew up with you…😍
IGNAZIO= What a ruined adolescence 😂😂
VERONICA= Made together with you and I’m very happy with it.🥰
PIERO= Tell him, tell him.
KATIA= Veronica ask the question, what do you want to ask?
VERONICA= I’m really happy.
PIERO= They’re envious. 😂
IGNAZIO= Do you also have a question you want to ask?
GIANLUCA= It’s nice to see you again, you’ve grown up, become more and more beautiful and have come to so many concerts….but now you speak otherwise it seems like I want to bring her to my side…so you speak. (to Piero)
KATIA= Veronica if you want to ask something?
VERONICA= Yes, the question, on the subject of music obviously, which are the three songs that cannot be missing from your play-lists.
GIANLUCA= Do you know that lately I’ve been listening to PURPLE RAIN by Prince every day?
KATIA= Wow, beautiful!
GIANLUCA= Every day at all hours I listen to it.
KATIA= It’s a piece that deserves a lot.
GIANLUCA= Then CAN’T HELP FALLING IN LOVE obviously and then something by the great Lucio Dalla, for example LA SERA DEI MIRACOLI.
KATIA= Wow.
GIANLUCA= One of my favorite pieces.
KATIA= Not a bad list. Ignazio?
IGNAZIO= I don’t listen to music.
KATIA= Don’t you listen to music?
IGNAZIO= I swear to you. I’m terrible, I listen to very little music, I almost never listen to music, only when I go to the gym..
GIANLUCA= Okay, pretend you’re listening, say something..
IGNAZIO= I listen to music, I listen to Eminem…
KATIA= Listen to the radio.
GIANLUCA= Listen to Radio Subasio, every day, here, on Radio Subasio.
IGNAZIO= I listen to Eminem…..
PIERO= It’s called rap cartel.
IGNAZIO= And then I listen to Fibra (an Italian singer), then….tell me the name of some rapper…
KATIA= Mahmood…. Tuta Gold ..(Mahmood song)
IGNAZIO= (motions to sing Tuta Gold)
KATIA= We’re good to go, playlist complete.
GIANLUCA= He looks like an old man in the body of a thirty year old.
IGNAZIO= Now I’m exaggerating, but you listen to various artists (he says some artists I don’t know and I don’t understand their names).……beautiful.
KATIA= And Piero instead?
PIERO= ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK by Sting, L’APPUNTAMENTO by Vanoni (Italian singer)…
GIANLUCA= “Il desiderio e la pazzia”, what a piece….(a song by Vanoni)
PIERO= “Eternità” (another song by Vanoni)
IGNAZIO= With chocolate.😁
KATIA= Not bad, not bad, thanks Veronica, I have to say hello, let’s go quickly, bye Veronica.
This is Subasio Music Club Radio, Il Mondo, Jimmy Fontana’s masterpiece sung by Il Volo live!
KATIA= Wow. Il Volo live on Radio Subasio. Time runs too fast, I’m leaving right away…
PIERO= There is a huge teddy bear, via zoom, show, but what is it? Hello Kitty? No?
GIANLUCA= How much time has passed?
KATIA= Almost an hour.
IGNAZIO= But is it Groot? It’s Groot, it’s Groot.
KATIA= Let’s go to the studio, right, yes, Claudia of Maiori, province of Salerno, Claudia go!
CLAUDIA= Hello, hello everyone. I wanted to ask you what did you miss about your adolescence?
GIANLUCA= Ours is a perpetual adolescence, let’s say, no but really, to do this type of work you have to be an eternal child…😁
PIERO= Of the time spent with our peers….
KATIA= You had a different adolescence..
GIANLUCA= Yes, in the end yes.
PIERO= And I have to tell you that we rediscovered that period in the post-Covid period, because we started doing concerts again…we were perhaps the last to restart with the tour, so we spent a few months at home and spent a lot of time with the our peers, our childhood friends, so those dinners, chats, sharing our experiences that perhaps the hectic everyday life doesn’t allow you to be with them. But we can’t…. honestly I don’t regret anything, because what I didn’t experience during my adolescence perhaps at home, I lived other lives outside, so we are three privileged guys and we are aware of this.
KATIA= Thank you dear (to Claudia) always from the studio: Aurora from Foligno.
AURORA= Hi, so, in the last song from Sanremo you say that “you fall from the sky like a masterpiece”, as if it were something unexpected….
IGNAZIO= Hoping he doesn’t get hurt…😁
AURORA= In your musical career, what would you have defined as a masterpiece, from this perspective?
IGNAZIO= In your musical career, in our career or even in life?
AURORA= Even in life. In life and musical career.
IGNAZIO= But I think this thing is very subjective, for example, for me one of the fundamental things in my musical career together with them (Piero and Gianluca) is enthusiasm, because for me enthusiasm is what moves everything inside and it’s not in my stomach, but in my heart, enthusiasm gives me the desire to do, to create, it gives me the desire to cry and laugh, it gives me the desire to do everything and if enthusiasm is missing it becomes a mess. So for me the feeling of enthusiasm becomes a masterpiece for me.
KATIA= Beautiful!
IGNAZIO= But even in love it’s like this for me, in the sense that if I have enthusiasm in love, I rock the world….
KATIA= Do we want to say that you will get married soon? 🥰
IGNAZIO= There are details..
KATIA= Are there details? well come on, well…
IGNAZIO= Incidentally, she is in the living room watching us…😍
KATIA= Oh yes? Shall we say goodbye then??
IGNAZIO= (he blows two kisses) 😘😘
KATIA= You see, he has a loving eye…let’s go live then (meanwhile Ignazio sings two words of Only You), Se Telefonando by Mina who sings Il Volo for us.
KATIA= Il Volo live, in the evening of Radio Subasio, there are two other fans who want to talk to you, there is one on video from Sant’Antonio Abate, Naples: Emilia, are you there? Where? Here she is.
IGNAZIO= Hello.
KATIA= Welcome, feel free to ask your question to Il Volo.
EMILIA= Thank you. So I wanted to ask you, it’s a somewhat existential question: What would you do if tomorrow was the last day on earth?
IGNAZIO= Here is the philosopher, 😂 Giancluca, he is the nephew of Galimberti (a philosopher) 🤣
KATIA= Oh yes??
IGNAZIO= Yes, he answers…what is the question that I haven’t heard, that already when I heard “existential” I thought of Gianluca.
KATIA= What would you do if it was your last day on earth.
GIANLUCA= The answer is simple, I would spend a day at the seaside eating kebabs with my family.
KATIA= How beautiful!
GIANLUCA= It’s nothing existential, it’s the most beautiful thing that takes you back to adolescence, that takes you back to your roots, to a moment of joy, the moment of greatest joy with your family, friends, the closest people dear for you, the world ends and you die happy.
PIERO= I would live like every day, because I live every day as if it were my last.
GIANLUCA= Wow, wow.
KATIA= Well done! Great Piero!
IGNAZIO= I’m silly to play down, but I’m a bit like him (Piero), I don’t think about it, I’m someone who lives everything to the fullest, I live every day with responsibility, respecting others, respecting the people who are close to me , but above all by respecting myself, which is fundamental and then I think you learn to answer this question, when perhaps things happen in your life that make you reflect, like when I lost my father 🙏 and I understood that every day you have to really live it not like it was the last one, but you don’t have to waste your time getting too lost in thoughts that we often have, live more, just live. This is what I think.
KATIA= Excellent, excellent. Thanks Emilia, I always go on video, in Schierano, province of Bergamo, am I right Michela?
MICHELA= Exactly, hello everyone! (the video shows Emilia drying her eyes again)
IGNAZIO= I didn’t want to make you cry Emilia, sorry.
KATIA= She was moved, but is Michela here? Michela are you there?
MICHELA= Hi.
KATIA= We hear you, here it is, ask your question.
PIERO= Hi Michela.
MICHELA= I wanted to ask you in these years of your career what were the key and least important moments for you.
GIANLUCA= The most important moments.
KATIA= The key moments, the most important moments of your career.
IGNAZIO= Certainly the signing of our first contract was a very important moment.
GIANLUCA= Can I say something? I’m interrupting you because….
IGNAZIO= You didn’t even get me started…
GIANLUCA= Because it’s important to say it, you must never forget the beginning and the people who then allowed you to express yourself artistically and it’s Michele Torpedine who is here this evening and is our manager.
KATIA= Applause, that’s right.
GIANLUCA= Because it took courage and a great vision to see three children like that, how can you imagine that maybe one day… in short there are things that only a visionary can understand…
KATIA= It’s very true.
GIANLUCA= Look, I want to say it because then there is also Barbara Vitali who is our shadow, really, the important thing is to thank people and be grateful.
KATIA= And never forget how you started..
GIANLUCA= That was a key moment… forgive me for a moment because I have them here in front of me (Torpedine and Barbara) and so I got a little confused.
IGNAZIO= It’s the emotion..
GIANLUCA= But that was a key moment which is the beginning, then winning Sanremo, the tour with Barbra Streisand was very important for us.
KATIA= There are many..
GIANLUCA= Many things have happened…
IGNAZIO= But can I name one of the key moments? (Piero was starting and everyone laughs) 😂 I didn’t speak, he interrupted me!
A moment that you will then share I think (he tells Piero).
Because then an artist, when she talks about herself, only tells the good things: “I sang with Barbra Streisand, I sang with Placido Domingo, Nobel Prize winner”, they are all beautiful things and they are key moments in our career and they gave me crazy prestige. Some children singing in the choir of We Are The word for Haiti, it’s something that happens once, in short they are key points, but we never think about it, but I think that one of our key and important points in our career was in 2014 , when we had the transition from one record company to another. That was a delicate moment in our career, we made the move to the record company, but above all we grew up and therefore we were no longer the children without beards, but the boys who cut their beards to be more children.
KATIA= Oh yes?
PIERO= This is a response to Marzullo (a person who always gives complicated answers)
IGNAZIO= But it’s the truth and so it was that moment of transition that was very delicate for us and that’s when we understood: Ok the fun is over, now we get serious and start working.
GIANLUCA= And then came Grande Amore.
IGNAZIO= Because everything arrived in one easy way… and then you have to start working and I must say that we did a great team job but above all Michele, he hid things from us (the difficulties) but if we find ourselves here today it is thanks to him because ... (makes a gesture as if to signify that Michele has broad shoulders).
KATIA= But you have had a crazy journey, many things have happened to you, I would like to keep you here for another hour because you also have some interesting anecdotes..
IGNAZIO= When the album comes out.
GIANLUCA= When the album comes out we’ll be back.
KATIA= Good, ok.
PIERO= We want to say something important.
KATIA= Sure, go!
PIERO= And it’s not the violin that’s being played, it’s the truth. We can talk about everything we have done for another hour, but there is one important thing, we are celebrating these 15 years with a two-year world tour and many concerts, but there is a basic truth, that we have an audience that make us feel like super heroes…🥰
KATIA= Nice…
PIERO= Who supports us, supports us and has been coming to our concerts for 15 years and therefore we cannot… there are no words enough to thank them, so we are grateful, we are grateful to them.
KATIA= Well then I would close with the song….tell me Ignazio.
IGNAZIO= Since we sing then we leave, and we don’t talk anymore we wanted to say thank you…..shall we talk later?? Then we sing and say goodbye with Capolavoro.
GIANLUCA= Capola-Volo 😁
KATIA= Great Il Volo: Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, what a fantastic evening you gave us.
GIANLUCA= Thanks Katia, thanks also to Beppe (director), thanks to Radio Subasio for everything.
KATIA= Thanks to the studio audience.
GIANLUCA= Thanks to the public, thanks to all of you for the love…
KATIA= Also to your fans at home..
GIANLUCA= Also to all the technicians and all those who are backstage and are no less important.
PIERO= Hello to the girl who wrote “Hi Piero”, bye darling.
GIANLUCA= I remind everyone that our first album of unreleased songs will finally be released on March 29th.
KATIA= And it’s called AD ASTRA, thanks!
IGNAZIO= Last greeting, I wanted to say an important message, at least for me, is that in life it is important when you believe in something, first of all we have to believe in it, in what we want, in what we want to do, but above all if you have the opportunity and believe in someone, do it with others too, we were lucky enough to have someone believe in us, so if you have the opportunity, do it with others too because it gives incredible strength.
KATIA= Thank you very much Ignazio, thanks again to Il Volo!!
Beautiful interview and beautiful performance, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Well Ladies, I think it’s time we tell our fellow Crew members who the luckiest women on the planet are next to our pal’s just coming back from Italy (that trip continued soon)!!
Several of us are going to that Dinner in Detroit with the Boys on July 6th!!(Hard to type while dancing!)
I don’t think any of us have slept since we scored tickets a couple of weeks ago. It’s doubtful we will sleep until sometime after July 6th. “We” are – Jana, Mary B., Jane (maryjane), Allene, Suzy and myself. There are also about 10 others we know who will be there.
Since you are already green with envy, I may as well tell you what we know of the agenda. There will be 25 couples and according to the invitation, “This special ‘Wine & Dine’ evening includes Dinner, Meet & Greet/Photos with Il Volo and a Studio Experience – watch from our studios as the guys pledge their new show across metro Detroit… live!”
Can’t seem to stop Jana from jumping up and down. She has never touched them, but plans to do that very thing, that very night. I might touch one or two of them myself! Sure!
We will be wearing our Flight Crew badges/lanyards so the Boys will be sure to know we are bringing you all with us.
We’re thinking it will be as close to Pompeii and the Guys as we’re ever going to get…Or was that as close to heaven…?
We all feel pretty much like this:
~Marie(I think I have that dancing while typing thing down now!)
Come in and share the love of life, friends and Il Volo!
