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SANREMO FIRST AND SECOND EVENING by Daniela

February 8, 2024 pitterpat0 86 Comments

And finally the day has come.

Sanremo, on the first evening, all thirty singers competed including Il Volo.

All songs are heard live for the first time (only journalists and orchestra players first).

The race is very long, Il Volo performs after midnight (the sequence is drawn randomly).

And finally they arrive… they come down the stairs, beautiful, elegantly different, dressed in Armani.

CAPOLAVORO

The final reception from the public was good, although I would have thought better.

The song is beautiful, quite catchy, I liked it .

I’m so excited for them, they’ve been waiting for media exposure like this for a long time and their performance of the beautiful song was the icing on the cake.

The more I listen to it, the more I like it and it gets into my head, it’s a true masterpiece.

I attach to you some comments published by a vocal coach who is really hard on some singers, he classifies them based on how the song is performed.

Il Volo are a cut above ALL!
Tonight less set and managed entries with 10 and praise!

Immediately after performing the song, the boys entered the Radio 2 box.

At Radio 2 there are two hosts, the man is a journalist, his name is Gino Castaldo and he has never had good comments for Il Volo.

The presenter/journalist is EVA STOKOLMA, she saw the video of the BSMT interview and also commented……thanks Eva!!

I translated the video.

EVA= The guys from Il Volo have entered, stand where you want.

GIANLUCA= I’ll stand next to you.

EVA= It seems right to me, because next to Gino he really doesn’t deserve it.

PIERO= Gino stays close to us, so if he makes something wrong (he means his comments) he knows that we are not merciful here.

EVA= Crazy, (in the sense of very good) you were crazy, how did it go? How did you find each other?

PIERO= Well Ariston is always a confirmation, that is, you experience unprecedented emotions when you go on that stage.

EVA= And what is this emotion today?

GIANLUCA= It’s an emotion that is contained in three minutes of song after a year and a half of work, everything fades like this.

EVA= But the song remains.

GIANLUCA= The chorus, in our opinion, is singable and it’s the main thing, regardless of the genre, that we tried to do something more contemporary, but the important thing is to bring songs that people can sing.

EVA= But when can someone sing your song? Secretly, not in front of people (she means their songs have great high notes that few can do)

PIERO= I’ll tell you something, I bet that at least once in his life Gino hums it in the shower.

GINO= (he laughs) but this new one?

PIERO= No, not even the past one.

GIANLUCA= Let’s let Gino do this (Gianluca sings the chorus of Capolavoro….but Gino doesn’t finish it)

GINO= No, no, I would do it but…..

GIANLUCA= Gino would have sung a song from Il Volo!!!

GINO= I would do it right away but I’m as tone deaf.
I have a very strong ear, if you drop half a tone I can hear it immediately, but not on me, because I’m out of tune.

GIANLUCA= Listeners, for those who are watching us on Radio 2, excuse me, let me tell you something……. we promise you that sooner or later we will make Gino sing with us. It’s a promise.

GINO= I have a serious question. You have been international for a long time, you move from one stage to another, crazy performances from New York, the world is your audience.

Is it possible that Sanremo is still so exciting for you who now have the world in front of you as spectators?

IGNAZIO = But you know better than us that around Sanremo there is a whole machine that rotates and it’s crazy, there’s a lot of work this week and if you’re not strong you risk being overwhelmed and sucked in by the anxiety and tension that the week takes its toll on you, after a year and a half of work as Gianluca said.

GIANLUCA= But it’s an emotional factor, we were born here, so we become children again when we go up on that stage, all those childhood anxieties re-emerge as if it were the first time.

EVA= Anyway guys I saw an interview with you where you talk about the crazy things that have happened to you around the world and the VIP folder. (the photo folder)

PIERO= Ah, the VIP folder, you saw the interview (BSMT)

EVA= You have so many stories, I would keep you talking for hours…

GINO= But they will come every evening, do you want….

EVA= We are waiting for you tomorrow too, who knows, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow (because the names of the singers who have to perform are drawn by lot on the very morning of the performance)

PIERO= Fortunately the police didn’t arrive the next day, after having told that (Piero refers to the BSMT interview)

GIANLUCA= We’ll be back. We will return here most evenings.

EVA= Is it a threat?

GIANLUCA= See you tomorrow or the day after.

EVA= True, you will only find out this tomorrow morning after the extraction. We give you a “lipo lip service” and we wait for you here at the microphones of Rai Radio2.

GINO= Good work, have a good week.

IGNAZIO= Thanks, bye everyone.

Then they go out to be interviewed by Fiorello.

Fiorello is waiting for them outside the Ariston Theatre, I think it is at least 03.00 in the morning. Piero, Ignazio and GIanluca haven’t gone to bed yet.

As usual Fiorello is very funny, I’ll translate for you.

Fiorello goes to meet them and hugs them tightly.

FIORELLO= Gentlemen, Il Volo, look at them.

P+I+G= Good evening

FIORELLO= Can I say that you are cooler?

PIERO= Thanks!

IGNAZIO= Well, let’s say handsome, he seems like a godfather (referring to Piero)

FIORELLO= No, no, he’s a guy. But you’re becoming like the Phantom of the Opera.

A curiosity, I followed you tonight, you (Gianluca), because when you sing you look up to the left.

IGNAZIO= I’ll tell you why.

FIORELLO= Why?

IGNAZIO= Because it’s his best side.

FIORELLO= Oh, really?

GIANLUCA= Do you know that I don’t know why? I don’t know, maybe I was looking at the sky.

FIORELLO= Do you feel cold?

GIANLUCA= A little.

FIORELLO= Listen, I challenge you to do something I’ll fly, so without trying, Grande Amore, only the final verse, he makes the chord (the pianist), only the ending.

PIERO= Do you have an F minor?
(sing the final chorus of Grande Amore – applause)

FIORELLO= Gentlemen, we have woken up Bordighera. (city far from Sanremo)

IGNAZIO= But doesn’t anyone sleep here? (because everything happens in the streets of Sanremo and people should sleep)

FIORELLO= Look who’s here, directly from TG2 Manuela Morino (a RAI journalist on the balcony)

GIANLUCA= Hello TG2

FIORELLO= Manuela Morino, if I throw you a ball will you take it? (he throws the ball)

So, now we’ll turn this way, if you give me a microphone, because what we would like to do is one of our strong points.

PIERO= OK

FIORELLO= It’s a song that brings good luck.

PIERO= In French?

FIORELLO = In Sicilian. He is from Abruzzo (Gianluca) but adapts (Piero, Ignazio and Fiorello are Sicilian)

GIANLUCA = I’m Sicilian too (he says it in Sicilian dialect)

FIORELLO= The song is titled……

PIERO= Excuse me.

FIORELLO= Go

PIERO= Don’t do the classic version, good, use bows, go slower.

FIORELLO = The song is titled TIRICHITOLLA

IGNAZIO= I’ll start.
(they start singing Tirichitolla which is a song in Sicilian dialect with double meanings in the words, and which every time they meet Fiorello makes them sing it)

FIORELLO= Gentlemen Il Volo! Thanks guys, good luck.

GIANLUCA= Hello to all the guys inside the box.

FIORELLO= Thanks, thanks to Il Volo. An applause!

Naturally, I had already warned you that on the first evening only the Press Room jury votes and therefore the votes would not have been in favor of Il Volo, in fact only the top 5 classified are communicated, here they are:

This is how the first evening ends, but tomorrow we start again, only 15 singers perform, including Il Volo, here’s how they were drawn. Il Volo will perform fifth, and this time there is 50% vote from home and 50% from the radio jury.

My husband and I will be ready with our cell phones and will vote the maximum allowed, that is, 5 votes per cell phone.

And here we are finally at the second evening, where only 15 singers perform, including IL VOLO.

They arrive in almost casual clothes, different, simple, I like them a lot.

They sing very well, always perfect, but much more relaxed, you can see that they are having fun.

The more you listen to the song, the more it gets into your head.

I really liked them and the audience really appreciated them a lot.

Click Here to view night 2 performance of CAPOLAVORO

What can I say: WONDERFUL, they truly are a MASTERPIECE!! 🎉🎉👏👏👏

At the end of the performance, Gianluca took the bouquet of flowers that they were given and ran into the audience to give it to his mother and he hugged his brother .. how sweet!! ❤️❤️❤️

Immediately afterwards they reached the Rai Radio2 station for the interview, Eva Stokolma and Gino Castaldo were waiting for them.

Greetings and hugs from everyone.

EVA= We can tune your song (you mean they can sing it even if they’re out of tune). Do you give us permission?

IGNAZIO= This song is either sung out of tune or not.

GINO= Then I have some chances.

IGNAZIO= It’s one of those songs you sing in the shower. It’s one of those songs that you have to sing out of tune and I was thinking about it last night, because yesterday you said that you don’t sing because you have a good musical ear, but…..

GINO= I’m out of tune.

IGNAZIO= And I imagined you in the shower singing it out of tune.

GINO= And it works the same!

IGNAZIO= Yes, it’s one of those songs you sing in the shower…

PIERO= Igna, what a bad image….

EVA= But why do you think about Gino singing in the shower, while returning home….

GIANLUCA= He imagines him relaxed in the shower...(because Gino is usually biting with his comments)

GINO= I will tell you, and I was commenting on it, that your song grows with every listen….

IGNAZIO= Come on!! But this is great news.

GIANLUCA= Coming from Gino Castaldo (who has always been negative against Il Volo)…..thanks, coming from him it’s incredible.

EVA= But it’s the truth.

IGNAZIO= I have to say one thing, I had a lot of fun tonight. It’s something I immediately said to them (Gian and Piero), we hugged each other and I told them: “Thank you because I had fun.”

EVA= How beautiful!

PIERO= It was nice.

IGNAZIO= To die for!

GINO= And when this happens, it gets to the public.

GIANLUCA= But in fact we are pleased to follow our path and to arrive with a new unreleased song, because for us it is very important to build a new repertoire, little by little, we are approaching something that for us anyway is……

GINO= So it will have a sequel.

GIANLUCA= It will have a sequel, so a record will be released where there will be 12 songs, among the most famous Italian producers: Luca Faraone, Michelangelo (Italian producers)…..

GINO= Every song….

IGNAZIO= There is also a duet that we cannot spoil….

GIANLUCA= Wait, we can only say that it’s a duet with one of the artists competing this evening!!

EVA= Wow, tonight….

GINO= So among these fifteen singers….

PIERO= We can’t say….

GIANLUCA= It’s an incredible piece!

GINO= So he’s among the fifteen tomorrow

IGNAZIO= I really don’t know!

PIERO= It’s true, we don’t know…

EVA= They don’t know…. (she laughs)

GIANLUCA= (turning to Gino) But are you coming to the album presentation??

EVA= Guys, why do you invite Gino when I’m your fan….

GIANLUCA= But you are already invited.

IGNAZIO= But it’s a given that you’re coming.

GIANLUCA= Never take Eva Stokolma for granted.

EVA= I’m taken for granted, oh well ok.

GIANLUCA= It is understood that you are invited.

EVA= Thank you, thank you.

What is the experience like being introduced by other singers competing this evening?

PIERO= Nice!

IGNAZIO= It’s beautiful, but thank goodness we weren’t introduced by Negramaro (they are a group of 5) otherwise we would have been a football team.

PIERO= But with Rose (Rose Villain who introduced them) there is a beautiful alchemy.

EVA= So it’s her. (the one from the duet)

PIERO= No, it’s not her.

IGNAZIO= I’ll tell you something nice that perhaps other artists have already told you.

This year there is an alchemy….it’s beautiful….and even with those we didn’t know.

For example, Alfa or Gazzelle (two singers from Sanremo), are wonderful guys.

GIANLUCA= Do you know how we will end this festival?
The final evening is my birthday, we’ll have fun, come on.

EVA= But really? I bring you a gift.

GIANLUCA= Your presence.

EVA= How kind.

GINO= We have to listen to the song during the race.

EVA= We look forward to hearing from you on Friday. (duet evening)

GIANLUCA= Friday?

EVA= You will do something crazy.

GIANLUCA= Castaldo will fall in love with Il Volo on Friday! (Castaldo loves rock)

EVA= But who doesn’t love you guys!

Greetings and Hugs

At least this time Castaldo managed to pay some compliments to the boys who are always very kind.

It’s clear that Eva likes Il Volo!! 🥰

At the end of the race, the ranking of the evening.
Naturally I gave all my possible votes to Il Volo (10), I was hoping a lot for this vote from home but I knew well that the radio jury would have been another cold shower and in fact Il Volo is not included in the evening’s ranking of the top 5 . What can I say, a big disappointment.

These are the top 5 ranked singers from last night.

1) Geolier
2) Irama
3) Annalisa
4) Loredana Bertè
5) Mahmood

And to really make you understand that Il Volo is always boycotted by journalists and radio stations, here is this comment posted by RAI.

I translated for you.

Among the uptempos the challenge is open, among the ballads Il Volo wins and has a victory song.

We know that they don’t make inroads into social media and that the press and radio are prejudiced against them, but that’s another matter.

And now a nice roundup of photos of our loved ones during the singers’ parade the day before starting Sanremo.

And at the party before Sanremo

and on the Vanity Fair cover!

This is how the first two evenings of Sanremo ended. This evening (Thursday) Il Volo doesn’t sing, they present a singer, and Friday will be the evening of duets, I can’t wait!!!

See you very soon!!

Daniela 🤗

P.S.

Our boys today at noon (8 February) had great satisfaction, meeting the first fans in an instore in Sanremo for whom they signed autographs on their CDs.

And hearing CAPOLAVORO sung by those people, I think, is their greatest satisfaction.

Credit to owners of all photos and videos.

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YOUR LOVE – SANREMO 2021 by Daniela

March 4, 2021 pitterpat0 62 Comments

Despite the sad event that hit the Boschetto family, IL VOLO confirmed its presence in Sanremo.

It will certainly not be easy for our boys, and in particular, obviously for Ignazio, the sad loss is so close.

The various Italian newspapers have given the news, and I propose to you this one from Il Quotidiano.net

SANREMO 2021: Unforgettable Morricone. The song of Il Volo for dad Vito.

On stage at the Festival for dad Vito, who would have liked to hear him once again on that stage. After a short illness, Ignazio Boschetto’s father from Il Volo died last Sunday in Bologna, but tonight the trio will still be on the stage of the Ariston with his homage to Morricone, under the orchestral direction of his son Andrea, to collect the (virtual) applause of the publication of this 71st edition.

Due to the Coronavirus, this year the Sanremo Festival will take place without an audience and with strict controls at the entrance of the singers in the theater. Inside, an uncontaminated environment has been created that must be kept as such by everyone. Before entering, each singer will have to measure their fever, have a mask and show a badge that will declare the result of the swab (test) performed.

And here Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca on their arrival at the Ariston theater.

IL VOLO arriving at the Ariston Theater – Click Here

MAN = Il Volo is coming, immediately the line to you!

WOMAN = Exactly, you can see live the controls of Il Volo, which at this moment are detecting the body temperature and then there is the screening of their pass.

(Piero and Gianluca arrive)

Temperature ok? You also have the negative test of course.

MAN= Can you give Ignazio a greeting and a hug from me?

PIERO = Here he is.

WOMAN = Ignazio is coming too, obviously we need to do the checks.

PIERO = (Ignazio arrives) They greet you from the study.

IGNAZIO = Hello

WOMAN = (to Ignazio) A hug from Alberto (man)

MAN = A hug to you three, are you excited for tonight?

PIERO = A lot, a lot. We are very excited.

GIANLUCA = It will be an honor for us to be able to pay homage to the greatest composer and artist, perhaps of all time, the great maestro Ennio Morricone, therefore, we will give our best.

WOMAN = I can say that in here they can take off the mask.

PIERO = But ……

WOMAN = You prefer to keep it, ok!

MAN = Let’s have a big “good luck” we look forward to Il Volo tonight on the Sanremo stage.

Guys, I hug you, hello Ignazio, my friend! See you tonight. (It is evident that the man sent messages of affection and closeness to Ignazio).

We are all in great expectation, we want to hear and see our dear guys, especially after all the bad times they are going through, especially for Ignazio and his family.

The tribute to Maestro Morricone began with a solo by the trumpeter, Nello Salza, who performed “The Good the Bad and the Ugly” and the musical performance of the orchestra which, led by Morricone’s son, Andrea, performed “Metti una sera a cena” (Put a night in dinner).

And here we are at their moment, I had great tension and emotion in listening, they deeply moved me, they performed YOUR LOVE, taken from the film “Once Upon a Time in the West”.

MAGNIFICENT!
Chills on the skin, pure emotion.

Amazing how Gianluca first, and then Piero, touch Ignazio to instill their closeness.

Ignazio starts the song by singing with his eyes closed and at the end of it he wipes his eyes. ❤

Incredible voices!

But here’s what was said.

AMADEUS = And now YOUR LOVE, which will see the extraordinary participation of IL Volo.

(the song begins, Andrea Morricone conducts the orchestra)

AMADEUS = Il Volo in Sanremo 2021.
I put myself between you so I give you a microphone to speak.

Thank you guys for being here, not only obviously from the Morricone family, but from the whole audience of the festival, even in an obviously difficult moment (he puts his hand on Ignazio’s shoulder to make it clear that it is a difficult moment for Ignazio ).

We are happy that you are here.

GIANLUCA + PIERO = Thank you.

IGNAZIO = Grazie mille.

AMADEUS = You are three much loved boys.
This evening is a special evening, because it is also the evening of the Italian voices that make Italian music known in the world, before you here there was , Laura Pausini, now you, and I think this is a satisfaction, also a pride, a considerable responsibility.

IGNAZIO= It has always been our goal, since the first day we walked this stage, because we were born on this stage (Ti lascio una canzone)

AMADEUS = Let’s take a step forward and go in front of the microphones.

IGNAZIO = For us this evening was a great emotion, because for us Maestro Morricone means a lot, he is a symbol of Italy in the world, and for us to be able to remember him, to be able to start this project on this stage, with the great maestro Andrea Morricone it is an honor. (Andrea sends a kiss)

AMADEUS = There is a project that you rightly remember, on June 21 (maybe it’s a mistake because it’s June 5) you are planning a great concert dedicated to master Morricone, right?

PIERO = That’s right, we are working on this recording project, dedicated entirely to maestro Ennio Morricone, and we wanted to thank maestro Andrea Morricone and all his family, for their trust and support in this project we are working on.

AMADEUS = It’s Il Volo’s tribute.

GIANLUCA = Yes, it is a very accurate choice of songs, because we will sing soundtracks in both English and Italian from Once Upon a Time in America, to Nuovo Cinema Paradiso. We can’t wait to start this new journey, thank you very much again. (addressed to Maestro Andrea Morricone)

AMADEUS = And it will be yet another journey that will lead them to appreciate the music, in this case of Maestro Morricone, all over the world, as always. When there is Il Volo this happens. Il Volo in Sanremo. Thanks guys, thanks.

G + I + P = Thanks, see you soon.

AMADEUS = Thanks to maestro Andrea Morricone, thanks.

It was a great performance, the voices were wonderful, they touched me deeply.

I seemed to sense deep emotion also in Gianluca, Ignazio very tight and tired, Piero emotionally the strongest.

Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, very elegant in their beautiful Dolce & Gabbana suits.

Always impeccable and suitable for various occasions.

After the performance, they went to a side room for an interviewed by Rai Radio2 and the critic Gastaldo, who always gave them very low marks in Sanremo where they were as competitors.

I don’t translate everything, because they are already known, but this time Gastaldo tipped his hat to pay homage to the master Morricone. Then Il Volo confirmed the June event saying that there will also be televisions from America and Japan to televise the event. Finally they said that their CD entirely dedicated to Morricone will be released and that they hope to return to America towards the end of 2022.

While Radio Italia instead publishes this photo below with the words:
“The best moments of the evening”

The comments of some newspapers, of which I give you a brief overview..

IL MESSAGGERO

Now the three tenors represent an Italian pride in the world, and in this capacity they are guests at the 71st Italian song festival. So much emotion during their performance, a performance that certainly represented for the three also a dedication to Ignazio’s father, who died too soon. Strong the warmth of the social networks to surround them during the performance: many appreciate the decision not to give up their expected participation in the Ariston, a presence that, given the conditions, deeply moved the fans and the whole audience.

ANSA.IT

After the emotion of Laura Pausini, the Sanremo Festival takes off on the notes of Ennio Morricone. The homage to the maestro is entrusted to the trumpeter Nello Salza, who plays the theme of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, to his son Andrea Morricone who conducts the orchestra in “Metti una sera a cena” (Put a night in dinner), to the voices of Volo , in a preview of the concert event, scheduled for June, ‘Il Volo tribute to Ennio Morricone’.

“I am happy that you are here, even if in a very difficult moment – says Amadeus, ideally clinging to Ignazio Boschetto who has just lost his father – in an evening dedicated to the great Italian music in the world”.

OF HER

IL Volo – Ennio Morricone is great, we love him, and Il Volo proves to be up to par in paying homage to him. Conducting the Sanremo orchestra is the son of the great master and the emotion is great. Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble give us one of the most exciting moments of the second evening of Sanremo 2021.

And finally a comment from the critic Monina, who has always spoken ill of our boys, but did not know them.

During Sanremo 2019 he met them and changed his mind, on them, on their skill.

Here’s what he wrote about them.

IL VOLO – voted a 9 rating

Now, I don’t think I am exactly the best person to point out that in the world the Italian music that is recognized as such is not that of Pausini, but that which has its roots in our remote past, which flirts with the arias, which marries important melodies, the Bel Canto, to put it in a couple of words that summarize what there is to be summarized. But so much so, and it is quite clear to many that in the world these three boys have made their way precisely by virtue of their being solidly good and equally solidly healthy carriers of those instances that see us as Verdi’s children, Puccini but also di Caruso and so on. I am not the most suitable person, because I usually deal with other things, but I believe that this truth must be recognized once and for all, and today more than ever. They were good at paying homage to the maestro Morricone, but more than anything else they are good and that’s it. (how to say they are indisputably good)

Ok, there were some nice comments, but honestly, after such a beautiful and exciting performance, I expected a lot more from the Italian press, luckily, someone, like Monina, is recognizing their artistic value.

It doesn’t matter guys, people are with you, we all recognize your value, your indisputable skill, your great elegance and professionalism, for having been there despite everything.

The audience, ordinary and non-ordinary people, bow to you and are proud of you.

The road ahead of you is not easy, it never has been, but you have always shown us that you can overcome obstacles, with strength, will, hard work.

Keep it up, we love you. ❤️❤️❤️

Daniela

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Come in and share the love of life, friends and Il Volo!

And finally the day has come.

Sanremo, on the first evening, all thirty singers competed including Il Volo.

All songs are heard live for the first time (only journalists and orchestra players first).

The race is very long, Il Volo performs after midnight (the sequence is drawn randomly).

And finally they arrive… they come down the stairs, beautiful, elegantly different, dressed in Armani.

CAPOLAVORO

The final reception from the public was good, although I would have thought better.

The song is beautiful, quite catchy, I liked it .

I’m so excited for them, they’ve been waiting for media exposure like this for a long time and their performance of the beautiful song was the icing on the cake.

The more I listen to it, the more I like it and it gets into my head, it’s a true masterpiece.

I attach to you some comments published by a vocal coach who is really hard on some singers, he classifies them based on how the song is performed.

Il Volo are a cut above ALL! Tonight less set and managed entries with 10 and praise!

Immediately after performing the song, the boys entered the Radio 2 box.

At Radio 2 there are two hosts, the man is a journalist, his name is Gino Castaldo and he has never had good comments for Il Volo.

The presenter/journalist is EVA STOKOLMA, she saw the video of the BSMT interview and also commented……thanks Eva!!

I translated the video.

EVA= The guys from Il Volo have entered, stand where you want.

GIANLUCA= I’ll stand next to you.

EVA= It seems right to me, because next to Gino he really doesn’t deserve it.

PIERO= Gino stays close to us, so if he makes something wrong (he means his comments) he knows that we are not merciful here.

EVA= Crazy, (in the sense of very good) you were crazy, how did it go? How did you find each other?

PIERO= Well Ariston is always a confirmation, that is, you experience unprecedented emotions when you go on that stage.

EVA= And what is this emotion today?

GIANLUCA= It’s an emotion that is contained in three minutes of song after a year and a half of work, everything fades like this.

EVA= But the song remains.

GIANLUCA= The chorus, in our opinion, is singable and it’s the main thing, regardless of the genre, that we tried to do something more contemporary, but the important thing is to bring songs that people can sing.

EVA= But when can someone sing your song? Secretly, not in front of people (she means their songs have great high notes that few can do)

PIERO= I’ll tell you something, I bet that at least once in his life Gino hums it in the shower.

GINO= (he laughs) but this new one?

PIERO= No, not even the past one.

GIANLUCA= Let’s let Gino do this (Gianluca sings the chorus of Capolavoro….but Gino doesn’t finish it)

GINO= No, no, I would do it but…..

GIANLUCA= Gino would have sung a song from Il Volo!!!

GINO= I would do it right away but I’m as tone deaf. I have a very strong ear, if you drop half a tone I can hear it immediately, but not on me, because I’m out of tune.

GIANLUCA= Listeners, for those who are watching us on Radio 2, excuse me, let me tell you something……. we promise you that sooner or later we will make Gino sing with us. It’s a promise.

GINO= I have a serious question. You have been international for a long time, you move from one stage to another, crazy performances from New York, the world is your audience.

Is it possible that Sanremo is still so exciting for you who now have the world in front of you as spectators?

GIANLUCA= But it’s an emotional factor, we were born here, so we become children again when we go up on that stage, all those childhood anxieties re-emerge as if it were the first time.

EVA= Anyway guys I saw an interview with you where you talk about the crazy things that have happened to you around the world and the VIP folder. (the photo folder)

PIERO= Ah, the VIP folder, you saw the interview (BSMT)

EVA= You have so many stories, I would keep you talking for hours…

GINO= But they will come every evening, do you want….

EVA= We are waiting for you tomorrow too, who knows, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow (because the names of the singers who have to perform are drawn by lot on the very morning of the performance)

PIERO= Fortunately the police didn’t arrive the next day, after having told that (Piero refers to the BSMT interview)

GIANLUCA= We’ll be back. We will return here most evenings.

EVA= Is it a threat?

GIANLUCA= See you tomorrow or the day after.

EVA= True, you will only find out this tomorrow morning after the extraction. We give you a “lipo lip service” and we wait for you here at the microphones of Rai Radio2.

GINO= Good work, have a good week.

IGNAZIO= Thanks, bye everyone.

Then they go out to be interviewed by Fiorello.

Fiorello is waiting for them outside the Ariston Theatre, I think it is at least 03.00 in the morning. Piero, Ignazio and GIanluca haven’t gone to bed yet.

As usual Fiorello is very funny, I’ll translate for you.

Fiorello goes to meet them and hugs them tightly.

FIORELLO= Gentlemen, Il Volo, look at them.

P+I+G= Good evening

FIORELLO= Can I say that you are cooler?

PIERO= Thanks!

IGNAZIO= Well, let’s say handsome, he seems like a godfather (referring to Piero)

FIORELLO= No, no, he’s a guy. But you’re becoming like the Phantom of the Opera.

A curiosity, I followed you tonight, you (Gianluca), because when you sing you look up to the left.

IGNAZIO= I’ll tell you why.

FIORELLO= Why?

IGNAZIO= Because it’s his best side.

FIORELLO= Oh, really?

GIANLUCA= Do you know that I don’t know why? I don’t know, maybe I was looking at the sky.

FIORELLO= Do you feel cold?

GIANLUCA= A little.

FIORELLO= Listen, I challenge you to do something I’ll fly, so without trying, Grande Amore, only the final verse, he makes the chord (the pianist), only the ending.

PIERO= Do you have an F minor? (sing the final chorus of Grande Amore – applause)

FIORELLO= Gentlemen, we have woken up Bordighera. (city far from Sanremo)

IGNAZIO= But doesn’t anyone sleep here? (because everything happens in the streets of Sanremo and people should sleep)

FIORELLO= Look who’s here, directly from TG2 Manuela Morino (a RAI journalist on the balcony)

GIANLUCA= Hello TG2

FIORELLO= Manuela Morino, if I throw you a ball will you take it? (he throws the ball)

So, now we’ll turn this way, if you give me a microphone, because what we would like to do is one of our strong points.

PIERO= OK

FIORELLO= It’s a song that brings good luck.

PIERO= In French?

FIORELLO = In Sicilian. He is from Abruzzo (Gianluca) but adapts (Piero, Ignazio and Fiorello are Sicilian)

Il Volo are a cut above ALL!
Tonight less set and managed entries with 10 and praise!

GINO= I would do it right away but I’m as tone deaf.
I have a very strong ear, if you drop half a tone I can hear it immediately, but not on me, because I’m out of tune.

PIERO= Do you have an F minor?
(sing the final chorus of Grande Amore – applause)

IGNAZIO= I’ll start.
(they start singing Tirichitolla which is a song in Sicilian dialect with double meanings in the words, and which every time they meet Fiorello makes them sing it)