We have reached the last of the TUTTI PER UNO  concerts broadcast by Canale 5.

An evening that promises to be full of Italian guests who will surely make all the people sing, because they have songs full of beautiful memories of periods of Italian music.

Unfortunately recently there has been a lot of degradation of Italian music, rap and trap are supported with incomprehensible lyrics because they are sung with a half-closed mouth with a “potato in the mouth” effect, it is difficult to understand what they are singing and with booming and boring music.

But let’s get to our beautiful concert.

I always thank Il Volo En Clase who manages to publish the entire episode on you tube!!

The preview begins with a very nice gag, already done in the second concert, but with a different ending.

The person in charge of checking people backstage at the Arena checks the list of guest singers and says that Il Volo isn’t there so Gianluca shows him the photo on the badge and says that it’s really the three of them. The man says he doesn’t recognize them and then Ignazio Piero and Gianluca place themselves exactly in the position in the photo.

Now the attendant recognizes them! 😂😂😂

The evening begins with the beautiful WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER by Queen. Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca enter the seating aisles among the people happily filming with their cell phones.

A really strong start and the song is over, just a quick hello to everyone and immediately Il Volo begins the beautiful IO CHE NON VIVO by Pino Donaggio and Ignazio asks people to sing with them.

Piero greets all the people and Ignazio thanks them for the support received during the other two evenings and asks for applause for the orchestra and maestro Rota.

Gianluca says that they have reached the last episode of this journey into music and will celebrate with many guests.

Piero tries to say the names of the guests but is silenced by Ignazio, but they immediately say that they can already announce the first guest, Max Pezzali enters, author of many beautiful and catchy songs that people recall by singing.

NESSUN RIMPIANTO sung with Piero
GLI ANNI sung with Ignazio
ECCOTI sung with Gianluca

Piero says that singing Max Pezzali’s songs is a dream come true (his songs were sung by all the kids in the early 2000s), and Max says that for a singer-songwriter to hear his songs sung by voices like theirs, that It’s truly a dream come true.

Ignazio says that they grew up with his songs. (Max Pezzali was the leader of 883).

All together they sing COME MAI. 🥰

Piero says they got off to a great start, but Gianluca says someone is missing, a female figure with the three E’s:
Elegance
Etoile
Eleonora Abbagnato.
(She is a classical dancer, now directs the ballet of the Rome Opera, she was an etoile of the Paris Opera. She is Sicilian.)

Eleonora enters with two dancers and they perform a piece from Bizet’s Carmen. 👏👏

Eleonora will join Il Volo in some moments of the evening.

After the ballet Eleonora thanks the people of the Arena. Ignazio tells her that it is an honor to have her as a co-host and they will help each other.

A beautiful series of duets by our boys on truly special songs begins.

Gianluca and Ignazio begin with the beautiful CINQUE GIORNI by Michele Zarrillo. 🥰

Gianluca says it’s a song they sang when they were little and Ignazio says the audience will definitely sing with them.

I saw our friend Janet Dong filmed waving her arms to the beat of the music!! 😘

Gianluca and Piero follow with the timeless and beautiful MY WAY. 😍😍

And now a beautiful and classic duet between Ignazio and Piero: LA DONNA È MOBILE by Giuseppe Verdi.

Ignazio and Piero are too nice! 🥰🥰

But it doesn’t end here, after these beautiful three duets, they all come back together for the beautiful CARUSO by Dalla.🤩🤩🤩

A solo by Piero, I remind you that this concert was held on May 13th and in Italy it was Mother’s Day, therefore Piero dedicates this song to all mothers, in particular to his mother.

MAMMA song by Bixio. ❤️

While Piero sings, a group of little dancers perform the song. They are the children of the Rome Opera of which Eleonora Abbagnato is director who returns to the stage greeting her little pupils among whom there is also her daughter Julia. 🥰

Julia calls her mother and Eleonora arrives and they hug. Piero says how important parental support is for a child, then he asks Julia about a flaw in her mother and she says that she is a neat freak. 😂😍

The concert continues with a rock touch, an unexpected duet between Ignazio and Nek who you know well, they perform on SENZA PIETÀ brought to fame by Anna Oxa. 🤩🤩

It’s time for a solo by Gianluca, this song deeply touches my heart and Gianluca sings it splendidly.❤️

LA CURA by Battiato

Eleonora Abbagnato returns to the scene.

She proposes a nice game. Words flow on the scene and each of the guys must identify a word that corresponds to their character. Now Eleonora tells Piero to choose a word and he chooses PUNCTUALITY, he loves punctuality. Someone in the audience shouts “well done” and Ignazio immediately protests.

Eleonora asks for an example and suggests a concert, the evening is starting and where is he?

Piero replies that three hours before the concert he is already present and has already eaten his pasta (it is a ritual he always does before concerts of eating a plate of pasta). 🥰

Eleonora says that now there are 15 minutes left until the start and where is he?

Piero replies that he has already finished vocalizing, he hasn’t put on his jacket yet, he has already put on his in-ears… and Ignazio isn’t there. 😂😂

Eleonora says there are 5 minutes to go and Piero replies that he is putting on his jacket, he hears the hairdryer on in Gianluca’s dressing room next door and knows that he is getting ready, but Ignazio is not there. 😂😂

Eleonora asks Ignazio if it is true and he hesitates….Piero asks him if he wants to deny what is happening…..😁🤪

Eleonora confirms that she is like Piero, methodical in her commitments before the events and leaves the scene.

Piero goes back to the fact that Ignazio is never there and not to deny him, but Gianluca comes to Ignazio’s defense saying that he could sing even in his pajamas…..the people confirm and Ignazio asks Piero to let him have this moment of congratulations and applause. 😂😂😂👏👏👏

It’s time for a great guest, maestro Riccardo Cocciante, much loved in Italy for his songs but also in France and Europe, he wrote all the songs of the musical Notre Dame de Paris, wonderful songs of which he immediately proposes tonight duet with Piero IL TEMPO DELLE CATTEDRALI.😍😍

At the end Piero compliments and thanks Cocciante for the honor of being with them and then Ignazio asks him to sing one of his most famous songs written 50 years ago: BELLA SENZ’ANIMA.🤩

Cocciante is 78 years old and is much loved by the Italian public.

The concert continues with Il Volo performing the beautiful LONTANO DAGLI OCCHI by Sergio Endrigo. 🥰🥰🥰

Ignazio presents a very strange duet, and indeed it is, Piero wanted to duet with Big Mama, a singer-rapper who had success during the last Sanremo. She had a difficult life, bullied, marginalized, but she made her way with strength.

Piero and Big Mama propose NON PENSARE A ME, a beautiful workhorse song by Claudio Villa. 🤩🤩

Honestly Big Mama has a type of singing (rapper) that isn’t for me, but I really appreciated the duet to combine two such different types of music.

We return to the game to understand the personalities of Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio. Our boys call their “star” (Eleonora) onto the stage, dedicating a short song to her. It is Gianluca who has to choose a word and Ignazio is happy that it’s not his turn!

Gianluca chooses FRIENDSHIP.

Gianluca says that he chooses friendship because it is a feeling as important as love. Without friendship perhaps life has no meaning and Gianluca says he has few but good friends who he cares about. 🥰 Then he says that there are different types of friendship, that of adolescents of fun, of need and that of the heart.

Eleonora asks for an example for the friendship of need, she says that Gianluca is in the middle of the countryside and has a flat tire on the car and so she asks him who is calling.

Gianluca replies that he would call both of them, Ignazio and Piero.

Piero replies that he can call his friends from his town and not just the two of them! 😂 Gianluca says that the two of them are his friends anyway.

Piero replies that they certainly don’t walk with a jack in their hands and Ignazio tells him that he could call a mechanic or make a friend who is a tire dealer. 😂 Then between the two of them Gianluca chooses Piero.😉

Eleonora asks who she would call as a friend for fun and Gianluca replies “obviously Ignazio”! 😂

Piero immediately protests by saying that he has organized the best parties in recent years and Gianluca replies that they are well organised, but without Ignazio the parties are a disaster.😂

Eleonora asks who her best friend is. Both Piero and Gianluca are sure of the choice, but Gianluca says it is his brother Ernesto. ❤️ “You don’t choose brothers but when you find them they are perfect and they are the best friends.” 🥰😘

Eleonora confirms that she too calls her brothers when she needs it and therefore underlines the importance of family.

What I have attached is the video of the embrace between brothers that took place on the second evening while Il Volo was performing a song, which I had told you about. ❤️❤️

Gianluca remained on stage for the next duet.

Together with the beautiful and talented Rose Villain they perform YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL, the beautiful song by Lana Del Ray. 😍😍

In the end Gianluca and Rose remember the Sanremo period, she too was in the competition and on the evening that the singers had to present other singers, Rose had presented Il Volo.🥰

Ignazio talks about feelings and how good he feels on stage, he talks about an artist who felt the stage wherever he was: Lucio Dalla. A duet begins, but this time it is virtual between Ignazio and Dalla on his beautiful song LA SERA DEI MIRACOLI. 🤩🤩

And we continue with a very touching moment, the beautiful HALLELUJAH by Cohen, masterfully performed by Il Volo. ❤️❤️❤️

From the royal box, comedian Enrico Brignano reads a beautiful presentation:

“Friends, friends, friends, Verona is the city of lovers, the most magical place in the world to celebrate love.

In the Arena then, one can only celebrate it with music.

But how many songs have the word AMORE (LOVE) in the title….
“LA STAGIONE DELL’AMORE (The season of love) of maestro Battiato”
“QUESTO PICCOLO GRANDE AMORE (This little great love) of Claudio Baglioni”
“AMORE DISPERATO (Desperate Love) of Nada”
“THAT’S AMORE by Dean Martin”
and I could fill pages and pages with other titles, and if I put them all together, a huge, giant, unique book would come out and it would be titled: GRANDE AMORE 😍😍😍

Piero presents Enrico Brignano on stage, a good comedian, naturally I hope to be able to make you understand his jokes.

He enters greeting everyone and then the strictly female choir, but they point out to him that there is also the male one. Say hello to the people of the Arena who call “Arenati”  (stranded). 😂

Then Brignano greets Piero by name, greets Gianluca by name and then pretends not to remember the third name (Ignazio)…..😳

BRIGNANO= Hello, boy, wait, don’t help me…..hi Piero, hi Gianluca and hi Iginio…..Ilario…the third of Il Volo!!! 😂😂😂 What do they call you, a little help…

IGNAZIO= Ignazio!

BRIGNANO= Ignazio!! I had it here on the tip of my tongue…😂

IGNAZIO= Yes, I saw it…😂

BRIGNANO = (to the audience) Because they are a bit like the 7 dwarfs, you always forget the name of the last one.😂

And then guys I have always followed you since before you took flight (Volo) since you were at check in, 😂😂😂 and I’m here with great pleasure because I would like to talk about opera, I submitted it as a thesis to university (it’s not true), I went to school, compulsory school, because I’m I was obliged, otherwise I wouldn’t have done them, I’m telling the truth. 😂

However, what better place than this to talk about opera, the greatest have performed here….(Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca go out and leave the stage in Brignano)

You’re already tired, don’t move away, stay close, see you later.

You are Maestro Rota, what an honour, maestro, greetings to all of your relatives, even neighbors. 😁

I was saying that all the greatest performed here, with the most beautiful arias, here they did certain arias…..😳😂

But the opera is not only made up of arias, it is also made up of recitatives, that is, moments of story, and therefore the words are many and the music is shorter.

You maestro (Rota) knows, the recitative is long and the music is a little supportive, two, three instruments and the lyricists or librettists, make the performers say things like this:
“Boom boom.
Who is?
It’s me ha ha ha!!”
Such a random laugh, which has nothing to do with it, just to lighten things up. 😁

The recitative serves the story, but the audience, even the melomaniac, who are the melomaniac, is not an illness, sometimes one says: “Madonna, I’ve had a bad liver for two days, the doctor said I have a melomaniac.” (in Italy MELOMANE = melomaniac, it is often confused with the name of an illness) 😁😁

The melomaniac is passionate, fierce. Sometimes the arias are beautiful, but the recitative is disappointing… (Brignano sings)
“I don’t want to disturb you.
But come in.
No, I couldn’t, no.
Come on in, I told you to come in.
Yes, I’ll come in!”

So the spectator (Brignano pretends to collapse bored on the spectator’s seat),😂 for heaven’s sake, the spectator enters standing like this (nicely upright) but after a while (Brignano makes the gesture which is eloquent….) 😂😂, then he finds an accommodation, perhaps he asks a woman: “Excuse me, but I have to put them somewhere.” 😂😂

But with all the love in the world.

But despite everything, opera (it’s like saying that opera is heavy) is our flagship. We in Italy are known for many things, the usual things: spaghetti, the bridge over the strait (the bridge over the Strait of Messina which is talked about a lot but is never built, it’s now a joke) 😂😂 and the opera that was born accidentally.

It’s true, opera didn’t exist, it hadn’t been invented yet.

In the sixteenth century, in Florence, the comrade of the Bardi (Florentine nobles) thought of inventing something to party with, play cards? No idea, said one: “Let’s revive the Greek tragedies. Yes!” 😳

And so they invented something mixed between words and music, except that of the Greek tragedy, so noble, the music was not left, only the Greek tragedy remained, in fact the protagonists all died.

I’m talking about the titles:

TRAVIATA
MADAMA BUTTERFLY
TOSCA
the plot is always the same, let’s take La Boheme which for an example is easier.

Rodolfo and Mimì fall in love, they don’t have a lira and then in the third act she dies of consumption, because consumption is the official disease of opera, yes there are bronchitis, things like that, but consumption is better. Yes, someone stabs themselves, does harakiri like Madama Butterfly, someone throws themselves off Castel Sant’Angelo like Tosca, but consumption at the opera is their death. 😳😁😳😁

Rodolfo, unemployed, penniless, a bohemian, handsome in the flesh (tenors are often pot-bellied) is always represented even hungry, after her death, he despairs, with an empty stomach.

Now how long did it take me to tell you about this plot? Two minutes?
In the original La Boheme it takes four acts and three and a half hours (again an eloquent gesture). 😂😂😂

I think that to bring new generations closer to opera we need to streamline the plots a bit.

So guys (Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca), give me a hand, let’s try to do a quick work, I need you who are so young, so fresh, eager to approach even young people of your age, give me a hand for this work, give me some manpower. 😂😂😂

I put myself here in this position, I do the recitatives and you do the arias, you put in the arias that you know and that perhaps seem more right to you, repertoire arias, arias already done by others, okay?

I need a lover between you three, who wants to be a lover? Rodolfo who does it?

PIERO= I am the sweetheart of the group.

BRIGNANO= I would need the sweetheart Mimì, which of you two wants to do it?

IGNAZIO= Me, Mimì with the goatee. 😂

BRIGNANO= Ok, Mimì makes it, a beautiful Mimì, “always liked mustachioed woman”, perfect, it’s fine. 😂

I have one role left: Alfredo, a friend, okay? (to Gianluca)
I repeat: Rodolfo (Piero), Alfredo (Gianluca) Mimì (Ignazio).
Let’s go. Music, let’s do it with our mouths, perfect.

It’s a night in May in Verona, Rodolfo and Alfredo go out and go “in tow” (a way of saying that they go looking for female company).

It’s late at night and the city is going to bed, but they aren’t!

GIANLUCA= (he sings) NESSUN DORMA

A timid applause starts and Brignano turns and says to the audience: “If you have to do it like this (the applause), save it for later.” 😂😂

Spontaneity is the first thing. 😂😂

So, walk walk, because in opera you always walk, Alfredo and Rodolfo arrive at a club, they see Mimì all shy, very shy. She is alone and the two offer her a drink…..what opera would you put on?

PIERO= (he sings) LIBIAM DE LIETI CALICI

BRIGNANO= Perfect!

Setting the opera in our times, to uninhibit himself, to loosen up, Rodolfo has a piece of cannabis in his pocket that a friend gave him….

GIANLUCA = That’s me.

BRIGNANO= Mimì notices them from afar and therefore….

IGNAZIO= (he sings) MADAMA BUTTERFLY, the song says:
“One fine day we will see a wisp of smoke…..”

BRIGNANO= A fine wisp of smoke (referring to cannabis). 😂
You are truly great Mimì. 😂
Taking advantage of the situation, Rodolfo takes courage and goes to Mimì and tries to win her over…

PIERO= (he sings) VINCERÒ VINCERÒ (I will win)!!

BRIGNANO= What do you want to tell him… despite Rodolfo’s ardor, Mimì isn’t up for it.

IGNAZIO= (he sings) CASTA DIVA

BRIGNANO= Rodolfo, it didn’t go well for you. Mimì leaves, Rodolfo is defeated without a woman. Alfredo, the friend is disappointed, he has finished smoking, the two look at each other, hold hands because in friendship it happens….

GIANLUCA= Should I do it? 😁

BRIGNANO= And what do we sing in these times? 😳😳

PIERO= (he sings) AMAMI ALFREDO (Love me Alfredo)!!! 😂😂🤪

BRIGNANO= And they all lived happily ever after!! 👏👏👏👏

(I hope I have conveyed the moments well, it is not easy to translate a comic part.)

Thanks, thanks guys, Ignaziuccio bye, have a good life.
(Kisses and hugs between Brignano and the guys.)

After the comic break, the concert continues with a beautiful solo by Piero: CORE NGRATO by Cordiferro. 🥰

Eleonora Abbagnato returns for the final part of the game.
This time Ignazio chooses the word and his choice is ROCK.

ELEONORA= Why did you choose ROCK?

IGNAZIO= Because rock is a lifestyle, no….

ELEONORA= Explain well what you mean.

IGNAZIO= Rock means stone, rock, in life, however, I had to learn to be a rock, like many people I think.

ELEONORA= It’s true, the word rock is not only in music, it’s actually in life, how to deal with problems.

IGNAZIO= Absolutely, let’s say that my life has been a bit tough, and what about you?

ELEONORA= I was a rock at the age of 11 when I had to leave mum and dad in Sicily (she was admitted to the Paris Opera) and I was alone and at the time there were no cell phones, we used letters.

Now let’s see if you have a song where your rock soul comes out.

IGNAZIO= I have it…..but shall I sing it now??

ELEONORA= Of course!! Ladies and Gentlemen: Ignazio.

Ignazio goes wild singing IL MARE IMPETUOSO AL TRAMONTO by Zucchero on a poem by Ciampi. 🤩

Followed by a very beautiful and sweet Gianluca in VEDRAI VEDRAI by Tenco (Tenco is a great singer-songwriter who committed suicide on one of the Sanremo evenings on 01/27/67). 😍

The tribute to Tenco continues with another good guest, the singer Nina Zilli who performs with Il Volo: MI SONO INNAMORATA DI TE. 😍

Followed by the beautiful CIAO AMORE also by Tenco. 😍

This is a beautiful tribute to Tenco who passed away at the young age of 29. 🙏

Il Volo continues the concert with the beautiful NESSUN DORMA from Tosca. 🤩🤩🤩

A nice standing ovation for them.

Taken from their latest album Ad Astra, the beautiful CAPOLAVORO. 🥰🥰🥰

And now a very good Ignazio gives his all in a difficult Queen song: SHOW MUST GO ON. 😍

Piero continues with a tribute to Puccini, under a beautiful starry sky, inside the Arena of Verona, the beautiful E LUCEVAN LE STELLE from Tosca. 😍

Gianluca finishes the trio of solos with a crackling ROCKET MAN by Elton John. 😍

Eleonora Abbagnato returns and says that she always listens to their last CD Ad Astra and asks them to sing her a song.

Eleonora greets the public in the room and from home and takes her leave.

To end on a high note, Il Volo performs the beautiful OPERA. 🤩🤩🤩

The concert is over, the final confetti starts to the tune of AD ASTRA and the guys say goodbye to everyone, thank them and wish them goodnight.

But there is still a little surprise, one last song after the concert. Accompanied by maestro Riccardo Cocciante Il Volo sings the beautiful song BELLA, taken from Notre Dame De Paris by Cocciante. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

What can I tell you?

It was a success from every point of view.
The home audience was once again top rated.
Canale 5, proud of the result, published this press release which I translate for you:

Record ratings for the last appointment with “Il Volo Tutti per Uno”, absolute leader of the evening with 3 million viewers and over 20% share.

The show which featured the trio formed by: Piero Barone, Gianluca Ginoble and Ignazio Boschetto on the stage of the Verona Arena as protagonists together with many extraordinary guests from the world of music and entertainment.

Huge applause and positive comments everywhere from people who greatly appreciated Il Volo, even those who didn’t know it or didn’t follow it.

Even the newspapers published positive articles singing the praises of the three boys.

An article today was titled:
“Il Volo: silent critics and snobs…..” as if to say that it silenced the malicious comments of the usual critics and snobs who didn’t appreciate them, and how it silenced them, with the demonstration of what they can do, sing very well, knowing how to host a program, welcoming and accommodating every type of guest and different types of music, being polite, well dressed, never over the top, in short, the best!! 🤩🤩🤩

And at the end of the television filming, a beautiful explosion of joy and well-deserved toasts.🎉🎉🍾🍾✨

Thank you guys, thank you Il Volo!!!  ❤️❤️❤️

Daniela 🤗

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