Friar Alessandro Brustenghi talks to Classic FM's Anne-Marie Minhall in a revealing interview about his youth and his journey towards music The headline-grabbing story of the monk who signed a ...

Friar Alessandro from Italy will be singing in Baltimore at the Basilica Friday. His concert will be for Baltimore City school children. Hundreds of Baltimore City school children will be at the ...

Alessandro Brustenghi grew up in Assisi, Italy, in a family of agnostics. Dinner-table conversation has a distinct lack of God-talk. One day, he experienced something very powerful and began to ...

A Franciscan Friar, Alessandro Brustenghi, from the original friary founded by Saint Francis of Assisi: the Porziuncola in Assisi, has signed a global record deal. Alessandro is the first Friar in the ...

Today, Decca Records/Universal Music releases Voice From Assisi, the recording debut from Franciscan Friar, Alessandro Brustenghi. Friar Alessandro is the first Friar in the history to land a major ...

“Listening to his debut recording is a highly satisfying experience,” writes theartsdesk’s classical CD reviewer Graham Rickson. “Hedges’ arrangements are invariably discreet and sensitive, and ...

One of Kerry's finest sacred spaces welcomed celebrated Italian tenor, Friar Alessandro on Sunday, April 17, as he treated his massive audience in St Mary's Cathedral to a stellar performance of some ...

The 36-year old Italian tenor and Franciscan friar is participating in the annual 9 February concert held in St Paul's collegiate church in Rabat. The concert organised by the Paulus Foundation, is ...

A singing friar? Maybe stranger things have happened in the bizarre universe of so-called "crossover" recordings – but not many that have made me feel quite so uncomfortable. Decca's latest signing is ...

A friar's personal take on some favourites from the choral canon. Album of the Week, 8 October 2012. "Music matters to me because it's a direct line to God." Listening to Friar Alessandro speaking ...

The 34-year-old from Assisi was spotted by Decca's Mike Hedges, who was travelling through Italy hunting around for a new tenor. Brustenghi is not a conservatorium-trained singer. At the age of 19, he ...