American Tour has Ended :(

No more American Il Volo tour.... :( The boys now will perform in Detroit for the PBS special, and then they are off to Paris, France to perform November 3 at the Theatre Folies Bergere. So sad they won't be in America anymore. Hopefully, they will be back soon! <3

Over 3,500,000 Views!

'O Sole Mio music video over 3,500,000 views!!!! WOW! :)

Piero's Brand of Glasses

From the previous post, I found out that Piero buys his glasses from Luxottica. Unfortunately, I forgot to ask specifically which brand Piero buys, not just where he buys them. So, I am on a mission to find the exact pair (the red or black) of glasses Piero wears. After much research, I think this is the closet to the black ones I can find. So please leave in the comments which pair looks almost identical to Piero's...

Piero's Glasses

Luxottica 9033

OR

Luxottica 9035
(When you click on the link, be sure to click on the black pair of glasses underneath he picture)

Now, please look carefully. There IS a difference between the two pairs. Please look at the frames, sides, shape, everything! Tell me which pair you think looks the most like Piero's. Thanks! :)

Il Volo Adjusting to "Scary" Success (I am mentioned in this article!!!)

Kids today - what do they know about opera?

Thanks to Il Volo, the answer could possibly be "quite a bit" someday.

The Italian ensemble, a trio of teenage tenors, is one of the most surprising and fast-rising crossover acts of the year. In May, its debut album "Il Volo," (Italian for "The Flight") came out stateside, landing at No. 10 on the Billboard charts.

That month, the operatic pop group performed on the season finale of "American Idol," and this summer it made a cameo on the series finale of "Entourage." On its first North American tour, the trio already is playing venues as large as the Milwaukee Theatre just a month after its first full concert.

"It was a little bit scary," Il Volo's Piero Barone, 18, said of kicking off the tour. "But when we have a beautiful audience, everything is easy. But we have to study, study, study, always study."

The baby-faced boy band with the manly voices is collecting older fans, the sort of loyal PBS viewers who generally appreciate the Italian arts. (Il Volo will have a PBS special in March).

But in a surprising change for the genre, a young female following - the kind you'd expect for Justin Bieber and the JoBros - is expressing interest in the romantic heartthrobs with the velvety voices, even though Il Volo's single is a 100-year-old-plus opera staple, "O Sole Mio." (It is, admittedly, a knockout performance.)

When Tap Milwaukee took to Twitter to solicit questions for Barone, some of the smitten inquiries included, "Where do you get your stylish glasses?" and "Are you dating anyone?" from fan Madison Field. (The answers, Madison, are Italian eyewear company Luxottica and, "I don't have a girlfriend, but remember: Always single, never alone.")

"We thought our music was only for the people over 40 years old, . . . but our goal was to bring our music to the young generation, because they don't know this kind of music," Barone said. "If you know this kind of music, you fall in love with it."

Barone himself fell in love with it at age 3 when his blind grandfather, Pietro Ognibene, would play classic Italian albums for him.

In 2009 Barone, Ignazio Boschetto, 17, and Gianluca Ginoble, 16, auditioned for the Italian talent show "Ti Lascio Una Canzone." A producer suggested they join forces, and as a result, they formed Il Volo, won the show and, soon after, a record deal with Universal Music Group.

It's a meteoric rise for Barone, who just a few years ago was an anonymous teen in Sicily, the son of an auto mechanic, who loved singing but, like the others in Il Volo, had no formal training.

"I miss my family, I miss my sister, my brother," Barone said. "But I know what I am doing. I am building my future. It is what I always dreamed."

IF YOU GO

Who: Il Volo

What: Benefit for the Italian Community Center of Milwaukee

When: 7:30 p.m. Sunday

Where: Milwaukee Theatre, 500 W. Kilbourn Ave.

How much: $45 to $75 at the box office, (800) 745-3000 and ticketmaster.comticketmaster.com">. Tickets at those prices are buy one, get one free.

Source: JS Online

** OMG!!!!! I AM MADISON FIELD!!! I am mentioned in this article. Piero ANSWERED my questions!!! THANK YOU! :) Unfortunately, I know only where Piero buys his glasses, not what BRAND he wears. Darn it! I should've been more specific! 

Il Volo in Detroit (October 16)

Videos from Detroit!

Il Volo Solos in Boston

HQ Il Volo solos right here!

Piero Barone - Non Ti Scordar Di Me

Lyrics:
Partirono le rondini dal mio paese
freddo e senza sole
cercando primavere di viole
nidi d'amore e di felicita
La mia piccola rondine parti
senza lasciarmi un bacio
senza un addio parti

Non ti scordar di me
la vita mia legata e a te
Io t'amo sempre piu
nel sogno mio rimani tu
Non ti scordar di me
la vita mia legata e a te
C'e sempre un nido nel mio cor per te
Non ti scordar di me!

Non ti scordar di me
la vita mia legata e a te

C'e sempre un nido nel mio cor per te
Non ti scordar di me!

Translation:

"Don't Forget Me"

The swallows have left my land
cold and sunless,
searching for spring and violets,
nests of love and happiness.
My little swallow has left
without leaving me a kiss,
without a goodbye, she left.

Don’t forget me!
My life is bound to you!
I love you more and more,
you remain in my dreams.
Don’t forget me!
My life is bound to you!
There will always be a nest in my heart for you.
Don’t forget me!

Gianluca Ginoble - Musica Proibita

Lyrics:
Ogni sera di sotto al mio balcone
Sento cantar una canzone d'amore
Più volte la ripete un bel garzone
E battere mi sento forte il core
E battere mi sento forte il core

Oh quanto è dolce quella melodia!
Oh com' è bella, quanto m' è gradita!
Ch'io la canti non vuol la mamma mia
Vorrei saper perché me l'ha proibita?

Ella non c'è ed io la vo' cantare
La frase che m'ha fatto palpitare
Vorrei baciare i toui capelli neri
Le labbra tue e gli occhi tuoi severi

Vorrei morir con te, angel di Dio
O bella innamorata tesoro mio
Qui sotto il vidi ieri a passeggiare
E lo sentiva al solito cantar

Stringimi, o cara, stringimi al tuo core
Fammi provar l'ebbrezza dell'amor


Translation: 
"Forbidden Music"
Underneath My Balcony Every Evening
I Hear A Lovesong,
Repeated Several Times
By A Handsome Young Man
And It Makes My Heart Beat Faster
O How Sweet Is That Melody!
O How Pretty, How I Love To Hear It!
My Mother Will Not Let Me Sing It,
I Don't Know Why She Would Forbid Me,
Now That She Is Out I Am Going To Sing
The Song That I Found So Exciting
I'd Like To Kiss Your Raven Hair,
Your Lips And Your Solemn Eyes;
I Would Want To Die With You,
O Heavenly Angel,
My Beautiful Beloved, Precious Jewel
Yesterday I Saw Him Walking By,
And Heard Him Sing As He Always Does
I'd Like To Kiss Your Raven Hair,
Your Lips And Your Solemn Eyes!
Clasp Me, Darling, Clasp Me To Your Heart,

Ignazio Boschetto - Ti Voglio Tanto Bene

Lyrics:
Dimmi che l'amor tuo non muore
è come il sole d'oro
non muore mai piú


Dimmi che non mi sai ingannare
il sogno mio d'amore
per sempre sei tu


Cara, ti voglio tanto bene
non ho nessuno al mondo
piú cara di te


T'amo, sei tu il mio grande amore
la vita del mio cuore
sei solo tu


Cara, ti voglio tanto bene
non ho nessuno al mondo
piú cara di te


T'amo, sei tu il mio grande amore
la vita del mio cuore
sei solo tu


Translation:
"I Love So Well"
Tell me that your love will never die
is like the golden sun
Never Dies Top

Tell me that I do not know fool you
My dream of love
you are forever

My dear, I love you so much
I have nobody in the world
more expensive than you

I love you, you are my love
the life of my heart
just you

My dear, I love you so much
I have nobody in the world
more expensive than you

I love you, you are my love
the life of my heart
just you

Il Volo in Boston (10/18)

Sorry for not posting this past week, it's been full of boring school stuff and homecoming fun. :)

So here are some not so excellent videos of Il Volo performing at the Orpheum Theater in Boston, Massachusetts (October 18, 2011)

And here are some videos from their Detroit concert...

Il Volo Live Concert to Be Filmed by Detroit Public TV

Il VOLO LIVE IN CONCERT TO BE FILMED BY DETROIT PUBLIC TELEVISION OCTOBER 27
AT DETROIT OPERA HOUSE

Show to Premiere on Detroit Public TV on December 7 at 8pm

National PBS airing to begin March 3, 2012

For Immediate Release - (New York, NY) - October 18, 2011 - Italian heartthrobs Il Volo, the three Teenage Tenors who are in the midst of a hugely successful 17-city Live Nation US concert tour, will be filming their live show at Detroit's famed Opera House on October 27th, it was announced today by Detroit Public Television.  The show will be produced by famed Grammy producer Ken Ehrlich and Il Volo’s managers, Michele Torpedine (who discovered Andrea Bocelli) and Steve Leber are executive producers.  The show will be part of their local pledge drive.  DPTV is a viewer supported PBS member station serving the nation's 11th largest television market in Southeast Michigan and over a thousand communities in Canada.  It is a leading national producer and distributor of PBS fundraising programs. 

“We are excited and proud to be producing this concert for national distribution with our partners at PBS and the Michigan Opera Theatre,” says Detroit Public TV’s President and General Manager, Rich Homberg.

Il Volo - Piero Barone 18, Ignazio Boschetto 17 and Gianluca Ginoble 16 have been receiving unanimous raves for their vocal talent and showmanship.  "If you've never heard them sing 'O Solo Mio' or other classics in their rep, then be prepared to be blown away," raved NY's Daily News.  "Il Volo wring every ounce of emotion from the classical-crossover material on their self-titled debut, then find just a bit more to extract," commented The Village Voice

Their self-titled Geffen Records debut produced by Grammy Award winning producer Humberto Gatica (Josh Groban, Michael Bublé) and Tony Renis landed at No. 10 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart upon its release and has sold over a half million copies globally.  Il Volo has appeared on several TV shows since their May release including American Idol, The Today Show, Ellen, Leno, The Talk as well as the final episode of HBO's Entourage.  Their astonishing vocal talent was first heard on the Italian hit TV show, "Ti Lascio Una Canzone (Leaving You A Song)."

Tickets are available for the October 27^th PBS taping and can be purchased at www.dptv.org ,www.michiganopera.org  or www.ticketmaster.com.

Remaining IL VOLO US shows include:

October 18        Boston, MA                  The Orpheum

October 21        Philadelphia, PA            Tower Theater

October 23        Milwaukee, WI               Milwaukee Theater

October 24        Washington, DC            DAR Constitution Hall