Il Volo, the Italian operatic pop trio and winners of this year’s Sanremo Music Festival, hope they will fall in love when they visit Malta next month.

Young tenors Piero Barone, 22, and Ignazio Boschetto, 21, and baritone Gianluca Ginoble, 20, spoke to the media via a live link from their recording studio in Italy yesterday saying they hoped to see four generations of people at the Malta concert on August 29.

“At our concerts we have people from five years old to 100,” said the singers, who top the international classical crossover market. “Our kind of music is ageless,” they said in fluent English.

Asked if they had a Grande Amore, with reference to their Eurovision hit song, they quipped: “Maybe we will fall in love with some fans when in Malta.” The three were discovered by Andrea Bocelli’s manager, Michele Torpedine, in 2009 when the teenagers sang on the popular Italian television show Ti lascio una canzone.

When they joined forces as Il Volo, they landed a worldwide recording deal with the prestigious American label, Universal Music Group.

Over the last five years, they have become hugely popular in the US and in Spain as well as in their homeland.

Fabrizio Crimi, director of Crimi events, the organisers of the concert, described the trio as “full of energy”. “In Italy, all their concerts are immediately sold out and it looks like it is going to be like that in Malta too,” he said.

The concert will be held at MFCC, Ta’ Qali and tickets can be bought via ticketline.com.mt.