Il Volo (Italian for “The Flight”) is an Italian operatic pop trio, consisting of Gianluca Ginoble, and tenors Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto. They describe their music as “popera”. Having won the Sanremo Music Festival 2015, they represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 in Vienna, Austria with the song “Grande Amore”. They reached third place, but achieved first-place in the televoting. In 2019, they took part in the 69th Sanremo Festival with the song “Musica che resta”. The piece, written and composed by Gianna Nannini, Emilio Munda, Piero Romitelli, Pasquale Mammaro and Antonello Carozza, ranking in third place. On February 22, 2019, Il Volo released their fifth studio album, Musica, worldwide. Later that year on November 8, they released their compilation album, Il Volo: The Best of 10 Years, to celebrate their tenth anniversary of their career. The group has also embarked on a world tour, which kicked off in May 2019 in Japan, continued in Latin America beginning on October 3, and arrived in North America the next year on January 28, 2020. On June 5, 2021, they held a concert in the Arena of Verona in honor of the Italian composer Ennio Morricone. In November 2021, they released a tribute album dedicated to Maestro Morricone titled Il Volo Sings Morricone.
