January 12th, as already announced several times, the Il Volo concert which was held in the beautiful Kyoto temple was screened in various Japanese cinemas.
Il Volo itself sent a video message for this event, here it is..
IGNAZIO= Hello friends from Japan, we are Il Volo.
GIANLUCA= The film of the live concert at the UNESCO world heritage site, the Kiyomizu Dera temple in Kyoto, will be released soon.
PIERO= On this occasion we sang for peace in the world. Go to the cinema to see it.
GIANLUCA= We are waiting for you.
PIERO= Bye.
The video was thus commented on by Weekend-Cinema magazine.
“IL VOLO”, a new generation vocal unit inheriting the three lead tenors, performed a live dedication at Kiyomizu-dera, a world heritage site for the first time in Asia as part of the World Heritage Series, and has been praised nationally as “IL VOLO to Kiyomizu-dera ~Kyoto World Heritage Live~” Now open. A video message has arrived from Il Volo to the Japanese fans.
Il Volo formed a vocal unit on a popular Italian audition show and surprised many people with his rich singing voice at the young age of 14 or 15. Their one-night-only live performance at Kiyomizu-dera Temple, the Mount Otowa World Heritage Site, will be shown on screen, making them the first foreign artists to do so. Using 13 cameras, including a drone, the video captures footage that normally can’t be seen, such as a blend of the night view of the city where Kyoto Tower sits and the main temple towering over a cliff.
In commemoration of such a precious version of the live theater, a message came from Il Volo to Japanese fans. With the expectations of the live video of the theater, they said: “We sang with hope for world peace.”
The three wear pure white clothes live, but in the video of the message, we will also see them in a black dress!
“IL VOLO in Kiyomizu-dera ~Kyoto World Heritage Live~” will be held for the first time in the Asian area, and it will be the first time in Kiyomizu-dera’s 1250-year history that a foreign artist will be able to enjoy a – Live show premium evening only on a big screen. It will be held in Shinjuku Piccadilly and other locations nationwide. Now available to the public.
IL VOLO: Today our 2022 show at the Kiyomizu Temple will be screened in 15 Japanese cinemas.
In this photo another article published in a Japanese newspaper.
This is another interview published in Japanese. It is also very beautiful and I’ll give you the translation of it.
“The most intense experience in 15 years of activity” Il Volo’s interview arrives to commemorate the release of “IL VOLO in Kiyomizu-dera ~Kyoto World Heritage Live~”
“IL VOLO”, a new generation vocal group inheriting the three major tenors, held a dedicated live performance at Kiyomizu-dera, a world heritage site for the first time in Asia as part of the World Heritage Series, on January 12 as “IL VOLO in Kiyomizu-dera ~Kyoto World Heritage Live~ “Released nationwide from Sunday (Friday). An interview with Il Volo has arrived. Additionally, additional scene photos have been released, (I’ll share the photos separately -donalee) and special gifts for attendees have been decided.
Il Volo formed a vocal group on a popular Italian TV show, and surprised many people with their rich singing voices at the young age of 14 or 15. Their one-night-only live performance at Kiyomizu-dera Temple, the world heritage site of Mount Otowa, will be shown on the screen, making them the first foreign artists to do so. Utilizing 13 cameras, including a drone, the video captures footage that cannot normally be seen, such as the fusion of the night view of the city where Kyoto Tower stands and the main temple towering over a cliff.
Interviews have arrived from the three members of Il Volo. Regarding the concert at Kiyomizu-dera, they said, “What impressed us the most was the solemnity of Kiyomizu-dera. Also, the warm welcome we received from all the monks left a strong impression on us. It was the most powerful experience in our 15 years of activities to be able to perform bel canto (beautiful resonant voice), which is a musical culture of Japan, at a sacred temple that is a World Heritage Site.” They talked about the warm hospitality of the monks of Kiyomizu-dera Temple, a national treasure, and the solemnity they felt standing on stage.
Also, this Kiyomizudera live performance will be Il Volo’s third visit to Japan since their first visit in 2017. Regarding their impressions of Japanese fans, they said, “We often do various interviews, and we always talk about our Japanese fans. Japanese fans are a role model for fans in terms of how carefully and enthusiastically they listen during concerts. The spring 2024 concert in Japan will be full of wonderful surprises.But before that… We hope that everyone in Japan will enjoy our concert filmed at Kiyomizu-dera Temple in Kyoto last year at the movie theater.’’ We express our gratitude to our enthusiastic Japanese fans and expressed our hopes for our fourth concert in Japan in the spring.
At the end, they addressed the Japanese fans and said, “We talked about the strong impressions we received, but we hope that we can share with the audience the impressions we received during our live performances. I hope that you will be able to experience the feeling of excitement,” they said in the message, wanting to share the excitement they felt on stage.
The newly released photos show various scenes from the live performance, including the scene where the three members of Il Volo perform in beautiful harmony, the way the camera captures them, and Kiyomizu-dera Temple illuminated with colorful lighting.
In addition, special benefits for visitors have been decided. You will receive an original ticket holder with a print of a scene in which the three members of Il Volo are smiling with relief after successfully completing a concert as the first overseas artists in Kiyomizu-dera’s 1250-year history. It’s a useful size that can fit not only live concert tickets, but also movie and stage tickets, travel tickets, etc. Limited quantity.
And this one was published byThe Hollywood Reporter Roma.
You absolutely must read it, it was published in Italian on Christmas day and perhaps you missed it. It was written by Pino Gagliardi who asked very interesting questions about Japan, but also about Sanremo and the habits of Il Volo.
As always, the answers from Gianluca, Piero and Ignazio denote great maturity and also humility.
Il Volo: We will be in cinemas in Japan (and with an exclusive clip on THR Rome) before arriving in Sanremo with Capolavoro.
On January 12 and February 9, the 2022 concert in Kyoto will be broadcast in the cinemas of the Rising Sun, in the Kiyomizu-dera Temple, one of the most famous and evocative monuments in the country. They are the first to do so in 1250 years. “If we are successful in that country we owe it to a skating champion, their Carolina Kostner”
Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble will celebrate 15 years of long friendship and music together on the Ariston stage, where they return to the competition for the third time after triumphing at the Festival in 2015 with Grande Amore – a song that won Il Volo the podium at the Eurovision Song Contest – and after having achieved third place in 2019 with Musica che resta. “The first time we won it, the second time we celebrated ten years and now we celebrate fifteen years” says the trio who will be competing at the 74th edition of the Sanremo Festival with the song Capolavoro.
However, the new year will open for Il Volo with another extraordinary and international event. On January 12 and February 9, the 2022 concert in Kyoto will be broadcast in cinemas across Japan, in the marvelous Kiyomizu-dera Temple, one of the most famous and evocative temples in all of Japan with a history of 1,250 years. It was a unique event in the world as no foreign artist had ever performed before on the stage built in the main hall. The Japanese public was so enthusiastic about the show of the three Italian artists that it decided to propose the experience of the show again in the cinemas of the main cities of Japan, from Tokyo to Osaka via Kyoto.
After Sanremo the trio will return to the Land of the Rising Sun with a series of new concerts in April before embarking on their World Tour around the world. In Italy, however, after the success of the two-evening event on Canale 5 last May at the Verona Arena, with many great guests belonging to different artistic worlds on the Italian and international scene, Il Volo will return to the Scaliger amphitheater with Tutti Per Uno (a project by Michele Torpedine) with three dates in May.
Where are you right now?
Gianluca Ginoble: I’m in Abruzzo.
Ignazio Boschetto: I’m in Bologna.
Piero Barone: I’m also in Bologna.
How did you end up singing at the oldest temple in Kyoto?
Piero Barone: You must know that in Japan everything was born a few years ago, compared to the United States and Latin America where we have been doing concerts since 2009. Five years ago this strong request arrived, because one of their ice skaters, their champion Yuzuru Hanyu – if we had to make a comparison we could say their Carolino Kostner – he won the ice skating Olympics to the tune of Notte stellata, a song sung by us, recorded in 2011 on our first album.
A piece that we have perhaps never sung live, except in the first concerts. We suddenly received many requests for live performances in Japan and also to be hosted on various television programs. From there our journey in Japan was born.
Haven’t you even been there on holiday?
Piero Barone: No, never! A whole new world for us because we didn’t know that culture. It had been described to us in different ways, but if you don’t go and experience it you can never understand what they are like and above all what their way of living life is – respect for everything and everyone.
Do you remember your first time?
Piero Barone: If I’m not mistaken in 2017. We did our first tour and our first guest appearances on Japanese television programs. In August two years ago we received this beautiful request from those who deal with the protection of the temples of the city of Kyoto. the city of a thousand temples.
They renovated and inaugurated, after a year, the oldest temple in the city: the Kiyomizu-dera. To inaugurate it they expressed the desire to have Il Volo singing inside the columns of that temple, but the characteristic of this sanctuary, which differentiates it from all others, is that it is located overlooking a forest. It was very humid. We arrived dressed in white to sing for no one, in the sense that we had no audience in front of us. It was also difficult to take it back, a particular experience.
Have you felt the spirituality of that place? Gianluca Ginoble: Each of us experiences spirituality in a very personal way. We define ourselves as spiritual people, certainly not just children of our culture. Japan is such a different place, totally distant, Buddhism and Shinto are strong there. We have adapted to this culture and made it our own, trying to transmit what are also our musical and cultural traditions.
Because it is paradoxical to interpret a musical genre that is linked to our culture in a Buddhist temple. And that’s where the great contrast was successful. This shows that what we do overcomes the cultural barriers of language and music.
The practice of opera singing officially entered the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity a few days ago. Is it your credit too?
Gianluca Ginoble: We are very proud to bring a piece of our culture. Because then we have seen over time that this type of music is truly what is considered the true Italian spirit, the true tradition, like pizza, spaghetti, Ferrari. It is certainly opera singing that allows us to interpret a certain type of music in such a prestigious place.
What type of repertoire did you choose for the occasion?
Ignazio Boschetto: In Japan we have always sung the most classical repertoire as a tribute to the three tenors. From there we continued in the wake of the most beautiful classic areas. The nice thing though is that at the end of the concert the last songs are Grande amore and L’amore si move and all the Japanese are there singing with us. And it’s great to see how our repertoire can vary from classical to even something more pop even in Japan.
Every year many opera singing students come to our conservatories from those countries.
Piero Barone: There is a strong attraction from the Asian world towards us and I believe it has always been there. Perhaps today many more young people are approaching this world. Clearly they come to study in Italy because perhaps we have one of the best methods for teaching this art and this way of singing.
There are also many of our compatriots who love this musical genre, opera, and who know what it requires and what studying an opera entails. That is, studying every day. Personally, I frequent opera circles, because in parallel with all this, for a personal thing, I am also preparing an opera journey, studying the arias of the operas.
In this musical genre you are the only ones to have broken into the mainstream.
Piero Barone: Perhaps we are one of the few cases in the musical panorama who sing this genre. For this reason we had many difficulties in the first years, from 2009 to 2015, until we arrived at the Sanremo Festival with Grande Amore. At that point we also managed to conquer the Italian market, because before obviously we were seen as those who sing songs like ‘O sole mio’, those of the Italian tradition abroad. Italy required something new from us, and thanks to Grande Amore the Italian market also opened up for us.
Gianluca Ginoble: This is the right interpretation, in the sense that it is a great truth that we have observed over time. If you sing Nessun Dorma, you won’t attract young people. If, however, you acquire prestige before singing Nessun Dorma, then you capture their attention, because you can convey that type of music first through the credibility of an unreleased song, and with that you arrive at the modernization of Bel Canto.
Thanks to an unreleased song you can attract young people and then you also make them listen to the more classic things. But if you don’t get there first with that, the young people unfortunately don’t arrive, and we see it in the audience who comes to see us, singing only the classical repertoire, which obviously only attracts the older audience.
Will you still use the Festival for this purpose?
Ignazio Boschetto: We already did it in 2017. Having won Sanremo with Grande Amore has brought us a lot of young people who find themselves at our concerts to listen, often for the first time, to Nessun Dorma.
Gianluca Ginoble: Exactly, and it’s really the only way, because opera anyway, and Piero can confirm this, requires a lot of sacrifice. How to learn to play an instrument, the piano, the guitar. Opera is the one that uses the instrument of the voice to the maximum. Surely you can’t get better results with little effort, unfortunately people no longer approach sacrifice. But we also want to be an example from this point of view.
Your Japanese concert will soon be broadcast in cinemas in the Land of the Rising Sun, will you go and promote it?
Piero Barone: No, we won’t go because we have already done a lot of promotion in the past few days with interviews via Zoom, we have been very busy here in Europe. We will go on a ten-day tour in April because we have four concerts as well as several hosted on television.
How are you preparing to face these concerts?
Piero Barone: The Japanese tour set is different from all the other concerts we usually do because we will have a significantly superior orchestra. The orchestral staff will be made up of many more musicians who will be trained by our great conductor, Marcello Rota, who knows what our requests are and knows us well.
Ignazio Boschetto: We will arrive two days early to rehearse our repertoire. Clearly the set list changes in each tour, but usually they are all songs that we rehearse in Italy.
Will you also include the new Sanremo song?
Piero Barone: Hoping it gets there too.
Ignazio Boschetto: Maybe we’ll do the symphonic version.
Ready for the Festival?
Gianluca Ginoble: We were born on that stage which for us on an emotional level is home. Coming back there nine years after the victory, five years after third place, doing it now as thirty-year-olds, is like showing a different version of us. A maturity that we want to show to the public, to our fans, and not only that, perhaps to an even wider audience. We will try to give our best, to truly convey a more mature Il Volo.
Piero Barone: We are going with a different spirit this year to Sanremo, with much more awareness, but we are also much more serene, because before we were always anxious. We are going in the spirit of celebrating these fifteen years, because for us it is a huge achievement. Being still here is already an achievement, few realize that being a single artist is different from being a group, where there are different ideas, there are always moments of tension, because the ideas perhaps don’t match one another. ‘other. So even demonstrating this esteem that exists between all three is a good result.
Maturity will also involve a change of look, given that you have been dressed like adults practically since you were born.
Gianluca Ginoble: Do you mean that when we were sixteen we dressed like sixty-year-olds?
Ignazio Boschetto: We dressed like adults because it was Bel Canto that necessarily led us to be elegant and dress in a certain way.
Will you be classic this time too?
Gianluca Ginoble: It’s normal that our strength was initially seeing three kids our age with adult voices. That was the key that allowed us to reach so many people. Today we are thirty years old and there will certainly be an evolution, because always being the same, remaining in a comfort zone, does not lead to growth. A little risk is part of progress.
Ignazio Boschetto: I don’t know if others agree with me, but I think that when we were younger we had to maintain a certain distinction in what we did. Now there won’t necessarily be a change of look other than just showing what our three true personalities are.
Piero Barone: A bit like we did with Tutti Per Uno, which was a forerunner of a work that will lead to a new wave next year. We will always be Il Volo and we will never change. Because when we tried to do something too different it went very badly, because we lost our authenticity. So that will always remain, but we must always try to overcome ourselves.
You are the only ones who have been successful among those who emerged from Ti Lascio Una Canzone, the talent that launched you.
Piero Barone: We wish all people to live by and with music. Clearly this is a demanding job. And the most important thing, perhaps our greatest fortune, I believe was to meet people who still collaborate with us, good people, great professionals, like our manager Michele Torpedine, who work 24 hours a day on this project from first day.
We too have had quite particular, turbulent periods, but with seriousness and dedication, we have always overcome everything. There are those who are luckier and those who are less fortunate in meeting people who really care about your project. We also kept in touch with other contestants, we don’t talk much, but we see that other guys continue to sing too. This is really the most important thing, cultivating your passion. We wish everyone to live with music.
Gianluca Ginoble: We succeeded because there are three of us, because maybe if they hadn’t put us together we would never have made it, or maybe the process towards success would have been much slower.
You have to thank Roberto Cenci who invented the trio (Roberto Cenci was the director of TI LASCIO UNA CANZONE, he had the idea of uniting Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca, who had presented themselves individually for the programme)
Piero Barone: It was he who put us together. He was the producer of TI LASCIO UNA CANZONE. We made the auditions individually with him in November 2008 and chose us. Then we reminded him of the three small tenors and joined us.
Gianluca Ginoble: Let’s say that Roberto Cenci is the one who took the three matches and Michele Torpedine lit them. So they were both important and it is right to thank all the people who precisely made us what we are today.
You took part in the soundtrack of the film Hidden Moon composed by Luis Bacalov with the song Hidden Moon, would you like to continue with cinema?
Gianluca Ginoble: A beautiful memory. We recorded the song in 2013 on the second album where there were many unreleased songs. In Mexico it was a great success, where among other things there is a very beautiful Spanish version. Having one of our songs in a successful Italian film, why not? There are many artists like Laura Pausini who have already won the Golden Globe or Davide Donatello. We are very ambitious and will work hard to make these things happen one day.
Piero Barone: Also because today Italian cinema is highly esteemed abroad and is producing great results.
Do you have any cinematographic preferences?
Gianluca Ginoble: Paola Cortellesi’s latest film is very interesting. I really like Christopher Nolan. I loved Oppenheimer very much but also Interstellar, in short all his films.
Piero Barone: There is always tomorrow. Beautiful! It reminded me a lot of Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful. I am a fan of Quentin Tarantino.
Ignazio Boschetto: I don’t go to the cinema often, I really like Italian cinema. I have a great passion for Edoardo Leo, who I like a lot as an actor. I like cult films like The Green Mile or The Truman Show, for me they are brilliant.
You sing in different languages, Italian aside, which was the easiest and which was the most difficult?
Piero Barone: Perhaps the one we did best is Spanish, we often sing it when we go on tour in South America or Spain. We always record the version of each recording project in Spanish. However, the one that has failed so far is French because during a concert we forgot the lyrics of a song.
Ignazio Barone: But it’s not that it turned out badly, it’s where we had a little more difficulty remembering the words of a French song. German was difficult for me. We recorded Silent Night in German. And for me that was the most difficult, especially for the pronunciation.
Gianluca Ginoble: I like singing in English more than in Italian.
Is it better to sing in Pompeii where you gave a concert in 2015 or in Kyoto?
Gianluca Ginoble: Sorry Italy, but definitely better in Kyoto. I would go and live in Japan. The culture is wonderful.
Ignazio Barone: I remain neutral.
Piero Barone: Pompeii for me! See this is the nice thing about being three.
This last interview was really very long, but I hope you enjoyed it, as I did.
I won’t go on too long, I just want to point out to you in the first video, dedicated to the Japanese public, our young men have a completely different look from what we saw for the communication of the Sanremo song. I want to say and underline that Il Volo will absolutely not lose its identity, but will adapt to the moment and the type of fans. They are multi-faceted chameleon singers, so they can allow this.
I’ll start immediately by telling you that the second ALL FOR ONE concert (actually it is the first concert in Verona in 2023, but broadcast on TV second) was repeated on the evening of January 5th.
Here is the announcement.
And let me tell you, it was another hit with the public.
Once again Il Volo (in rerun) had the highest ratings of the evening.
Once again Il Volo gained support from its fans.
I am very happy with this result, as already said I believe that Il Volo is much loved, more than one imagines, and I am personally very happy about it.
It’s a more than deserved success.
Looking back at this concert I could really see how much rain we got, but we all resisted all the way, two and a half hours under the incessant rain, but what a thrill.
For those who want to see the entire concert again, I propose it again below.
A short interview by Rai Radio 1 was also published, taken backstage at the New Year’s Eve concert, I propose it to you and translate it.
MAN= And we greet as we embrace:
WOMAN= Il Volo.
MAN = Il Volo which is in the backstage of the YEAR TO COME (the Crotone concert), hello guys, hello everyone how are you?
WOMAN= Hi guys.
G+I= Hello
P= Hi, good evening.
WOMAN=How are you guys?
IGNAZIO= We’re fine, the temperature is also very good, so we’re comfortable.
WOMAN= Right?
PIERO= I didn’t understand where you are?
MAN= We are behind you, practically….
WOMAN= If you turn around…. (They are behind a wall, Piero turns around and doesn’t see them)
PIERO= Why don’t we do the interview together?
MAN= Why should you walk 200 meters towards us, among people….
GIANLUCA= We would also be willing to fly to you….
WOMAN= Then we’ll be waiting for you…
MAN = While you are flying, at least with your mind, I would like to ask you: Hallelujah is an incredible song, written by Leonard Cohen, it is a little profane, a little mystical, it is a good test, it is a pop song, but also suitable for your strings.
IGNAZIO= Yes, in recent years we have been singing it a lot in our concerts because it is a moment that we dedicate to those who have not made it in these past years, which have been unforgettable years in positive and negative ways and we make every time to dedicate this song to those who have been more unlucky than us, to those who perhaps didn’t make it, to those who have suffered and continue to suffer, so it’s always a very delicate moment. It’s one of those songs that you can give whatever meaning you want, because it’s such an iconic melody, so beautiful that you can give whatever meaning you want.
MAN= It’s true and then the text is very vast….
IGNAZIO= Yes.
MAN= ….it is not simply a sacred song, it is also a slightly profane song, so it brings together many different things.
IGNAZIO= Born as a profane song.
MAN= Of course.
WOMAN = Born as a profane song. Ignazio, guys, since we are talking about feelings, thanks to this song, what is the feeling, one for each of you three, that you want to carry with you into 2024.
MAN= Everyone has their own!
IGNAZIO= I personally am amazed, because being amazed is always a great emotion, therefore always being amazed.
WOMAN= Ignazio the amazement. Gianluca?
GIANLUCA= I think…..you go first, I’ll think about it a little…
WOMAN= First Piero.
PIERO= I’m thinking that the most important thing that I believe will save the world will be irony but above all kindness and I will try to cultivate kindness on a daily basis.
MAN= These are all important feelings that lead Il Volo to Sanremo where I believe you arrive with a positive momentum, at least with Amadeus it is no longer a real competition, but a way of sharing, I don’t know how you can experience it even as a competitor.
GIANLUCA= Let’s say that all artists like us and all people, we are never the same, we are constantly evolving, so we change personally but also artistically. There are nuances that we discover every day, every year, and that is what we want to show, this small evolution that now makes us what we are today.
We won Sanremo when we were 20 years old, we returned to the Festival when we are 30, we are still the same, with consistency, but with a few more nuances that allow us to show a new side.
PIERO= Oh yes, maybe for those who don’t know, or don’t remember, in 2024 we will celebrate 15 years of career in a few months and I believe it is the duty of three singers to celebrate them in music, so it will be a 2024 full of music.
GIANLUCA= But it is passion, which moves everything and allows you to express what you really are, if you can live from your passion, live a happy life, a life that allows you to express what you really are and our passion for music it makes us feel alive and that’s what we will bring to the Sanremo festival.
MAN= So let’s keep “passion” as the word that unites you in this, as it unites all those who listen to music, with passion, and also with the idea that with music you can make the world a little better for those who Listen.
IGNAZIO= Absolutely, in fact, we think that the adjectives, the emotions for next year are precisely: Passion, Kindness and Emotion, especially with the year we have experienced it is very important to send these messages to young people, with everything that has happened this unfortunately this year (he is referring to the wars).
WOMAN= Happy New Year guys!
MAN = Happy Flight guys.
WOMAN= See you in 2024, long live the emotion!
I+P+G= Bye!
GIANLUCA= At the festival with MASTERPIECE!
An interview with Il Volo was also announced and will be published by Sorrisi e Canzoni TV, which will follow all the Sanremo singers step by step.
Here are Piero, Ignazio and Gianluca arriving for the interview and Piero jokingly greets by saying that he didn’t miss the people from Sorrisi e Canzoni.😁
Photo shoot for Sorrisi e Canzoni TV.
Meanwhile, the cover of the weekly Sorrisi e Canzoni TV has been released with all the singers who will be competing in Sanremo.
I warned you that competing in Sanremo meant being subjected to very strong media exposure, there will be many journalistic and television interviews, and we really like this.
While waiting for the interview in the weekly SORRISI E CANZONI TV, which will be released on January 30th, here is a nice video interview done at Il Volo on the day of the first rehearsal of the song with the orchestra.
The question that was asked to Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero was: “How did the rehearsals for the song go?”
And here are their answers!
IGNAZIO= The rehearsals went terribly!! 😁
GIANLUCA= Let’s start well. (that means Ignazio is joking)
IGNAZIO= No, no, the rehearsals went very well, there was a crazy chemistry with the musicians, we already knew some of them, some were new….
PIERO= We know most of them…
IGNAZIO= Yes and we had a lot of fun, it’s nice to be able to sing the song that you’ve been working on for a year and a half, so it’s very nice to get here today.
GIANLUCA= Let’s say that we must never be guilty of presumption, in the sense that, when an artist stays in the studio for a year and a half, he obviously needs confirmation for the work done and therefore, seeing the positive reaction of the orchestra was for us a great achievement, there was also applause, so for us it was something wonderful and in fact we want to thank the musicians for their support, as Piero said, we know many of them….
PIERO= I haven’t spoken yet.
GIANLUCA= …..we have known many of them since we started our career and therefore it will be very exciting to be able to sing it on the stage of the Ariston ( It’s the Sanremo theatre) again.
PIERO= We’ve been working on this project for a year, it will be an entire album of unreleased songs. 2024 is an important year for us because we will celebrate our 15 years of career and this is also the main reason that we are returning to the Ariston stage, we thank Amadeus for giving us this opportunity because, as singers, the best way to celebrating your milestone in these 15 years means doing it with lots of music, with new music. After Sanremo, a big tour will follow, it will be a year of music, it will be a challenging year, but we are very, very satisfied.
IGNAZIO= No, the song was not created for Sanremo, the song was born out of the need to create our own repertoire, after GRANDE AMORE, after MUSICA CHE RESTA, we were planning to make an album of unreleased songs this year and in the end, between the various songs that are on the album came out CAPOLAVORO and when Amadeus invited us we said:
”This is the song for Sanremo”.
GIANLUCA= This is our third time in Sanremo, the victory in 2015 and then third, if I’m not mistaken, in 2019.
Let’s say that we want to show personal and artistic growth, not a new face, but obviously we are not the same people as when we were teenagers, so this personal change is transmitted, it also has repercussions in the artistic part, because we cannot be the same, somehow we must renew ourselves and there must be an evolution in both professional and personal life.
PIERO= Regardless of the world of music, I believe that each of us has an evolution, a personal growth, in any field, in any sector, so in addition to celebrating 15 professional years, there is also a personal growth and we care now to sing and send this message.
We often hear ourselves told that we are used to the Ariston stage, but it is completely different, we never get used to it, the Ariston is a particular stage, different from any other stage, we were born on that stage and still today we have to get used to it, and I hope this never changes because it is precisely that emotion, that adrenaline that never makes you stop seeing the world with different eyes.
Sanremo is only a month away and already the preparations and rehearsals are in full swing and amplifying the expectations for this event.
There will be a lot to read, to see, to listen to, prepare yourself for a full immersion in an atmosphere of music, gossip, beauty and often even controversy.
It’s Sanremo and here, we say: “Because Sanremo is Sanremo”!! 🥰
On Christmas Day, “Helene Fischer Show” was broadcast on ZDF TV in Germany, the program recorded about a month ago and in which Il Volo also participated with the song “A CHI MI DICE”.
Beautiful and elegant as always and their voices, what can I say, fantastic and well blended with Helene’s voice.
The RAI 1 news talked about the new Il Volo EP, a really pleasant article, here it is.
Merry Christmas with the voices of Il Volo, the trio interprets 4 great traditional classics. (video starts)
A new album dedicated to the holidays is the gift that, 10 years after the release of BUON NATALE THE CHRISTMAS ALBUM, Il Volo puts under the tree.
From the most famous Italian trio of singers in the world and who is preparing to perform in Sanremo for the third time in a few weeks, 4XMAS, the most famous Christmas songs in the world in a dedicated album.
Warm voices that envelop and warm the atmosphere with four timeless hits including the cover of HAPPY CHRISTMAS – WAR IS OVER by John Lennon, inevitably revisited with the addition of bel canto.
Food, wine, gifts, decorations, but also notes, because music cannot be missing at Christmas, and who knows whether the trio’s new melodies will soon become part of those “Christmas jingles” that struggle to get out of our heads and remind us with festive sounds, the happiest moments.
On the same day, our three lovely young men posted photos of themselves in the sweetness of Christmas.
MariaGrazia Barone, published this beautiful photo with the two brothers Francesco and Piero.
Ercole Ginoble published this sweet photo that portrays Ercole himself and his sons Gianluca and Ernesto around their grandfather Ernesto.
….and also a nice gathering at the Ginoble house with the whole family.
And finally, Michelle Bertolini published this beautiful photo portraying Ignazio in love embracing the beautiful Michelle. What a splendor this couple of lovers. ❤️
and if you are wondering if there was a declaration of love with ring…..
YES IT HAPPENED❤️❤️
Ignazio officially declared himself to Michelle with the delivery of the ring!!!………
And this is the response Michelle posted:
SI Y MIL VECES SIIII AMORE MIO!!! Quiero pasar mi vida junto a ti.. TI AMO TANTO
YES A THOUSAND TIMES YES MY LOVE!!! I want to spend my life together with you.. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH❤️
The newspapers immediately seized on the news, which in a flash went around the world wide web via fan pages. 😍
Orange flowers at the Il Volo house, with the marriage proposal from Ignazio Boschetto to his partner Michelle Bertolini. The images posted by the two boys on Instagram really suggest the big step. The photos of the rings… They look really unmistakable!
Ignazio has been a regular couple for some time with the Italian-Venezuelan model who was elected Miss Venezuela in 2013 and spends her few free moments in South America.
In recent days on social media the two have posted some Instagram stories in which Michelle’s outfit stood out, truly breathtaking and amazing.
Michelle Marie Bertolini Araque, of clear Italian origins, was born in Caracas on 15 June 1994 and is 1.80 cm tall.
His family originates from Trieste, on his father Enrico Bertolini’s side. The mother Jackeline Araque is, however, Venezuelan. At the same time as her career as a model and entrepreneur, Michelle was also a professional tennis player, so much so that she entered the WTA circuit in 2010. A bad injury during a match on the circuit caused her to end her professional career prematurely.
There are no details on the probable wedding between Ignazio and Michelle, it seems certain that the musician is now completely focused on his next participation in the Sanremo Festival. Il Volo, in fact, will return to the Ariston 5 years after the third place in Musica which remains with the song entitled Capolavoro.
So, still lots of sweet news during these holidays and I could not update you right away, even if the news of the official engagement will certainly have already reached you!!
Surely after reading all this, your heart will be filled with so much happiness for our Ignazio who seems to have found his soul mate. 😍😍
There is still one event in which Il Volo will participate as a guest among the many singers, the end-of-year concert hosted by Amadeus which will be held outdoors, in the beautiful Piazza Pitagora in Crotone, Calabria and which will be broadcast live by RAI1 on December 31st from 9.00 pm (Italian time)
So a 2024 truly bursting with news and events awaits us, but for now let’s prepare to leave this 2023, so our best wishes reach you!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024!
with the hope that it will be a year of peace, and that your families will not lack health and happiness.
Lots of news these days, but let’s get straight to the most recent news.
During the television broadcast on Rai 1, all the singers admitted to Sanremo were invited to say the title of the song they will present at the festival.
The broadcast was live from the Sanremo Casino, where the Sanremo Festival was born.
The arrival of Il Volo at the Sanremo Casino.
Here is the title of the song that Il Volo will present in Sanremo and here is the moment in which they gave this news.
C A P O L A V O R O
AMADEUS= The next competing singers are other winners, they represent a 15-year history, a history of music, of friendship, of success all over the world.
After the victory in 2015 and third place in 2019, it is a great pleasure to announce Il Volo’s return to competition at the Sanremo Festival (applause)
G+P+I= Hello, hello everyone.
PIERO = (to Amadeus) You’re in great shape.
AMADEUS= Just don’t eat! You know, the energy!
IGNAZIO= Like dismantling the kitchen and assembling the gym!
AMADEUS= Good, more or less!
GIANLUCA= Fiore, (Fiorello, TV presenter), steals your job!
AMADEUS= I must say that the fact that someone says: “They won Sanremo….” but how many things have happened for you, we’re talking about a worldwide success, which continues to be worldwide, therefore also a notable commitment, because you really travel the world.
GIANLUCA= Yes, I truly believe that the secret, and it is a message that we also want to send to those who have followed us over all these years, is to always remain cohesive, cultivate friendships, even if we have not chosen each other, learn to know each other, not to clash the sensitivity of the other, I think this is really important, because being cohesive makes us stronger. Individuality is important, cultivating it, but I believe being a cohesive group is the key that has allowed us to reach 15 years of career.
AMADEUS= Absolutely. We talked about the victory at the Sanremo Festival, who doesn’t remember that 2015 with Grande Amore. (the video of the victory starts).
This is one of those songs that the public has taken over (it means that everyone knows it)
PIERO= But our expression makes you understand the emotion and adrenaline that the Ariston stage gives you, because many of you will know that we met on the Ariston stage, in the television program 15 years ago. It’s not the first time, in some way we were baptized on that stage, but every time it’s a new emotion, even though it’s the umpteenth time.
IGNAZIO= If I can spoil one thing, I’ll see you in 5 years because every 5 years we come to celebrate the anniversary, in 2019 10 years, this year 15 years, we’ll see each other again for the 20th.
AMADEUS= It’s true! I’m happy that it coincides with 2024 (it will be Amadeus’ last presence in Sanremo as host), which is why I extended it by one year.
And what do you bring to Sanremo?
GIANLUCA= Wait, let’s say it together?
AMADEUS= As you wish: one two three….
I+P+G= CAPOLAVORO (Masterpiece)
How exciting, and how beautiful they are, as you will have noticed they are also dressed in an elegant but informal way, in fact Amadeus’ wife, Giovanna, does not miss the opportunity to point this out in a nice way. 😁
GIANLUCA= How are you?
GIOVANNA= I’ve never seen you in a tank top…
PIERO= I’m not in a tank top.
GIOVANNA= Yes, you are in a tank top (and shows Piero’s tank top and then Ignazio’s), look, Il Volo in a tank top, a little transgressive! 😁
In fact, you will notice that the new image of Il Volo is certainly different from what we are used to seeing. They are followed by a designer (the most fashionable currently in Italy) Nick Cerioni, who is famous for giving a different imprint and has relaunched the image of several Italian singers.
Nick Cerioni himself published these words on his page:
“A project that I have always cared about, not only for the immense artistic luster that these three guys give to Italy but because they are three unique people.
I worked with Il Volo on the creative direction of the visual part of their new project and together we created a world (or rather a universe) that speaks of this new beginning.
The videos and photos are by the best of the good (yes, I’m biased) Leandro Emede (Nick’s husband)✨”
Here are some shots from Leandro Emede.
And I think this will be the cover of the new single:
For this evening, Il Volo wore Armani suits, as VANITY FAIR tells us.
Il Volo in Giorgio Armani
Black in three look variations, which demonstrate the desire to bring the three different personalities of the trio onto the stage. Ignazio Boschetto’s outfit is the most linear, Piero Barone wears a tuxedo with a t-shirt instead of a shirt while Gianluca Ginoble sports a softer outfit with an open shirt.
Other shots of the evening.
Greetings to Caterina Balivo (the one who presents another Rai program)
And in this video Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio tell us that this video is on Sanremo RAI’s Instagram and they ask us to let them know if we like the title of the new song and Gianluca specifies that it is not self-referential.
Many newspapers and broadcasts talked about the evening and this is just the evening in which the titles of the songs were discovered. As you can understand, there is a lot of visibility that revolves around the Festival and this is certainly what Il Volo was looking for when launching a new work.
It is absolutely forbidden to listen to the song before the Sanremo evening, under penalty of disqualification. Furthermore, as I have already told you, all the singers competing cannot appear on any television network other than RAI, the regulations are very restrictive on this.
And in this video, Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero jokingly communicate on the web the title of the song they will sing in Sanremo in 2024.
Instead, in this other video, Gianluca, Ignazio and Piero communicate that they have a Whatsapp channel and say to subscribe to their channel to be updated on the news. To sign up just open this link.
Robbie Williams, of whom Gianluca is a fan, was also invited to perform at the same private event and in fact there are several videos in which Gianluca and also Piero can be seen listening to Robbie sing, with Gianluca’s evident enthusiasm.
……and what you don’t expect is that Robbie, while he is singing Angels (the song that Gianluca sang with the soprano in the Arena), invites Gianluca to sing and gives him the microphone.
Gianluca was very excited and wrote on his page: “Last night was crazy with @robbiewilliams 🔥 and now who sleeps anymore.”
Shortly before the Monte Carlo event, the staff announced that Il Volo would return to concert at the Verona Arena in May, on 9-11-12.
There was an immediate rush for tickets, because advance sales began the same day as the announcement.
I already have my ticket and even if I didn’t manage to get the best seats, I will be in row no. 5 side, I can’t wait and I will definitely meet lots of friends.
Who of you will be there?
Meanwhile, my beautiful Christmas EP has also arrived. What a beautiful gift!!
On 15 December in Bologna the Donatello Restaurant (where Il Volo often goes) celebrated 120 years of activity and among the various guests at dinner there were also Piero Barone and Michele Torpedine.
At a certain point in the evening a beautiful duet was born between Piero and a soprano to the tune of the song “Non ti scordar di me.”
But let’s take a look at the new sweet engaged couple, here are some beautiful photos of them together in Milan, Ignazio and Michelle, but how beautiful they are!! ❤️❤️
For now there is nothing else, but soon it will be Christmas and therefore I take this opportunity to wish you my personal wishes for a beautiful Christmas, which will bring joy, health, happiness and above all in this moment, PEACE. ❤️
Best wishes to all of you!!
Daniela 😍❤️
Best wishes for a peaceful Christmas from all the Flight Crew staff:
Jana, Kelly, Daniela, Pat and Susan
🎄 MERRY CHRISTMAS! 🎄
And to celebrate Christmas we propose again the beautiful concert recorded in Jerusalem a year ago, when there was no war yet.
A nice interview with Piero, Gianluca and Ignazio was done by Paolo di Stefano for IL CORRIERE DELLA SERA.
This newspaper dedicated an entire paper page to the interview and it is truly an event because in reality this newspaper has never talked about Il Volo.
Il Volo: “They tell us that we are the children everyone would like to have. But success without initial training risked ruining us.”
The guys from the Il Volo group, Ignazio Boschetto, Piero Barone and Gianluca Ginoble: “Before, only the grandmothers followed us. We tell our peers not to be afraid to cry.”
Who is Il Volo?
Collective singular: trio, trinity, triple alliance. “We don’t even know who we are,” says Gianluca Ginoble, the baritone of the group known throughout the world as an interpreter of Italian “lyrical pop”. Excellent premise from which to start, indeed indispensable given that Il Volo, after almost fifteen years of triumphs, has reached a turning point, a turn from the sky of “bel canto” to something new. And yet if today, almost thirty-year-olds, they still don’t know who they are, they know very well where they come from. Gianluca from Roseto degli Abruzzi, Piero Barone from Naro, province of Agrigento, Ignazio Boschetto, born in Bologna, is also Sicilian, son of the city of Marsala. We are between the deep South and the deep Center. The Deep North is missing, but it does the same. The meeting takes place in Milan with Gianluca and Piero, while Ignazio is connected in shorts from Caracas, where his partner lives. It’s a chat full of surprises. The first is the impressive list of novels read by Gianluca, including those by Faulkner. Then he quotes Murakami’s The Art of Running, when Piero remembers having participated in the New York marathon.
PIERO: We have a past that unites us in many things: for example, the encounter with music for me and Gianluca occurred thanks to our grandparents. For me the music was that of Mario Del Monaco and Claudio Villa. Nobody introduced me to rock. My maternal grandfather drove the truck carrying wheat between one mill and another, but at the age of 45 he lost his sight and spent the rest of his days in an armchair: in total darkness he saved himself with music, today I have his own voice. He felt the need to help me grow and so I did what he couldn’t do, I studied piano, I sang in the town choir….
IGNAZIO:(he laughs): The most beautiful voice in the world…
PIERO: All three of us got to know music like this, in a natural way, without knowing it, without a conservatory.
How do you explain it?
GIANLUCA: It would have to be studied in a psychology faculty. At 14-15 years old, after being discovered on TV, we spent three months in the USA, we were catapulted not into a new world, but into an absurd world, sacrificing adolescence, friends, family.
PIERO: Commitment and talent. But without commitment, talent vanishes, it’s not enough.
GIANLUCA: We live in a world where we want immediate results with minimal effort. Our lives changed so suddenly, without any training, that we didn’t even notice. Then comes commitment and ambition.
How do you grow up with such early success?
GIANLUCA: We spent more time with each other than with our families. We trained each other, it’s as if we were wearing a mask on stage: but the danger is to keep the mask on even when we’re not singing, because we rarely get to be together to have fun. Only now, as we have matured, has our relationship grown in intimacy and discussion.
IGNAZIO: Success is difficult to manage, even with families. Not everything is beautiful, especially if you start young. We are lucky not to have noticed it. Then, sometimes you stop and say: what happened? We are crazy, me first. I think we are lucky in many countries and I say: at this point why should I limit my life and my experiences?
GIANLUCA: We live from our passion and this overcomes tiredness and stress.
PIERO: The fun is still there, and remains the priority. I don’t think I’m famous and inner balance is a constant work for which I also have to thank the people around me: my brother and sister were sacrificed by the attention my parents dedicated to me. For this reason, today what I do on an economic level is also for them.
What do your parents do?
GIANLUCA: My father distributed medicines to pharmacies in Central Italy, but he left this work to follow me. Mum worked in the factory at Perla.
IGNAZIO: My parents moved from Marsala to Bologna, where my mother started working as a cook in a restaurant, then she worked in a pizzeria for a lot of years. When we returned to Sicily, she opened her own pizzeria. Dad was a bricklayer and wood craftsman. He died in 2021.
Three boys who start singing “Nessun dorma” and “Torna a Surriento”. It seems like anachronistic madness.
PIERO: They often tell us: you are the children everyone would like. Perhaps the message arrived in the most natural form.
GIANLUCA: To be nostalgic has been our luck with the adult public, but over time it can be a condemnation. In fact we are working on unreleased songs to move forward over the next twenty years… We are no longer Il Volo from the beginning, when we all sang the same way. We can do many things: Piero is the lyrical soul of the trio, Ignazio can do everything, he can sing opera but also Steve Wonder, Queen, he is genius and reckless, he has the most elastic voice, he is eclectic. Piero, on the other hand, is the lyrical soul.
PIERO: From 2009 to 2015 in Italy only mothers and grandmothers knew us, then with the new song and with the victory in Sanremo everything changed, we also brought young people closer. I would never have listened to someone my age singing O’ Sole Mio. Abroad we have found people who go crazy for bel canto. Non-Italians abroad: there are none in Japan, they are Japanese who love Italy.
IGNAZIO: We managed to keep the tradition alive. Now it’s time to work on new music, always maintaining that bit of tradition.
GIANLUCA: I have never listened to Del Monaco, I preferred De André or Gaber to virtuosity, who teach me to doubt, to be an empty container and to look at the world.
What does the world seem like to you?
PIERO:Instinctively they say: these people from Volo are always around, they are rich, famous… But we don’t live outside the world, we know that today more than ever we need discipline, responsibility and determination. What unfortunately many of our peers lack. The men then…
GIANLUCA:Males tend to hide their emotions, low self-esteem leads to anger and violence because they don’t manage their emotions and fragility, they don’t ask for help at the right time.
IGNAZIO: It’s as if fragility were a defect for man. The male cannot cry… More and more, to move me, all I need is a film or a nice evening with friends or with my girlfriend.
PIERO:I hear many things said, but for me the discussion must be reversed. It is not the woman who must defend herself from the man, it is the man who must change.
GIANLUCA: Before working on education we must work on education and sensitivity, but often the first to need it are parents. And who educates adults?
And here is the beautiful paper page of the newspaper.
After this article came out, Fiorello (a well-known Italia entertainer of whom Il Volo has already been a guest in the past) also mentioned Il Volo in his new broadcast, where we hope to soon see Ignazio, Gianluca and Piero also invited.
FIORELLO = Now let’s talk about our friends, IL VOLO, look how beautiful they are! (then he reads the title) . “They tell us that we are the children that everyone would like to have, but success without training has risked ruining us.”
Who wouldn’t want to have three children like this, think of three children like this, you have them at home in the morning at dawn (and he sings a piece of Nessun Dorma) ….at dawn I will win…..and they wake you up like this. 😂
They are beautiful, cute, because they already sang like that, I don’t know if you remember them when they were at Clerici (at TLUC), they were really crazy and tonight there is THE VOICE KIDS (new program hosted by Antonella Clerici where singing children participate).
But if you have read the beautiful interview above well, you will surely have read that Ignazio was connected from Caracas where his partner lives……so this makes the news official: Ignazio is in love again and his new love is called Michelle!!
“Il Volo: Gianluca Ginoble and Piero Barone respond to Corriere della Sera, while Ignazio Boschetto connects remotely from Caracas.”
Gianluca Ginoble and Piero Barone of the musical trio Il Volo participated in an interview with Il Corriere della Sera in Milan, facing the journalist’s questions. However, the third member, Ignazio Boschetto, is physically absent and connected remotely, being in Caracas. The newspaper revealed further details about Boschetto’s private life, revealing the presence of his new partner, Michelle Bertolini, former Miss Venezuela International 2013, who lives in Venezuela.
The gossip that had been circulating in the previous weeks turned out to be true, confirming that the 29-year-old singer has a new flame, with whom he is deeply in love. Ignazio Boschetto visited his girlfriend in Venezuela, thus confirming his relationship with Michelle Bertolini.
Before this relationship, Boschetto was linked to the Brazilian dancer Ana Paula Guedes, but the two would have ended their story in the autumn of 2022. After a period of singleness, Ignazio found love again alongside Michelle Bertolini.
Michelle Bertolini is a well-known figure in Venezuela, born on June 15, 1994. She has had a multifaceted career, having been a professional tennis player, model and beauty queen. After a knee injury that forced her to leave competition in 2012, she has become an established presence in fashion. In 2013 she was elected Miss Venezuela International, representing her country at Miss International 2014.
Currently, Michelle is active in the restaurant industry, having founded Kiko Sake Sushi, and is dedicated to producing wines with her family through Vinos Bertolini. Ignazio Boschetto seems to be deeply involved in the relationship with the 29-year-old, demonstrating his interest and affection for the Venezuelan public figure.
What can I say, the beautiful Michelle is a true “career woman”.
She lives in Caracas but is often in Italy to follow the wine sales.
It seems that the conditions are all there for a “Great Love”, we will see over time, for now we are happy for the two of them! ❤️❤️
Meanwhile, in recent days, Il Volo flew to Germany to participate in Helen Fischer’s show.
The show will naturally be broadcast during the Christmas holidays.
But here is a short video of the participation.
But now here we are at the most important news, which…deep down we’ve all been waiting for…..it’s official:
IL VOLO WILL BE COMPETING IN SANREMO!!!!
Here is the moment on the RAI 1 news when presenter AMADEUS announced the competitors of Sanremo 2024.
And here is the moment in which Ignazio, Piero and Gianluca, flying back from Germany, got the news live.
GIANLUCA= Here we are, here we are….
PIERO= Gentlemen, we’re going to Sanremo!!!
GIANLUCA= Let’s go!
PIERO= Hi guys, see you in Sanremo!
IGNAZIO= Ciao!
What can I say, even if we were waiting for the news we are all amazed.
They always said that they would participate as contestants only if they found the “right” song.
So trust in our three young men and support in everything, also because in the interview they themselves spoke about changes, about turning points, without departing too much from their style.
Surely, given their past with Sanremo and with the Italian press which has always turned the public against them, the three of them will need all our support and all our love. 💗
Let’s sharpen our nails, volovers and get ready to vote for them!
Daniela 🤗
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