Oct 31, 2025
Best-known for the lead role in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award-winning musical The Phantom of the Opera, Franc D’Ambrosio played the famed masked man more than 2,100 times, holding the title of "The World’s Longest-Running Phantom" for more than a decade.
As the opera-singing Anthony Corleone, son of Al Pacino and Diane Keaton’s characters in the seven- time Academy Award-nominated film Godfather III, Franc performed the theme song "Speak Softly Love" for both the film and Original Motion Picture soundtrack. A revised version of the movie debuted in theaters in December 2021 with a new title: Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone.
D’Ambrosio lived and studied with famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti in the summer of 1991, later founding the Lorenzo Malfatti Vocal Academy in Lucca, Italy, for students of opera and musical theatre. He has recorded three CDs based on his critically acclaimed one-man shows celebrating the best of Broadway’s most iconic musicals, and tours internationally performing concerts and conducting his iconic Master Classes. D’Ambrosio is also a frequent guest artist with major orchestras and symphonies worldwide.
His outstanding work in Broadway musicals, opera, film and television, coupled with extensive philanthropic contributions, earned him the Cannes Film Festival’s "Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2018. In February 2020, D’Ambrosio was knighted by the President of Italy with the title "Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia", the highest honor the Italian government can bestow on a foreigner.
In March 2020, D’Ambrosio began rehearsals for the World Premiere of ORFEUS: A House Music Opera! at the legendary Young Vic Theatre in London. The production was halted in March 2020 due to Covid-19 and will resume on a later date. He is currently touring with "The Four Phantoms In Concert"; the group released their first CD in 2022, recorded live at the iconic 54 Below night club in New York City. "The Four Phantoms in Concert" will record a PBS Television Special in Oshkosh, WI in late March and is set to air this summer.
In reaction to the refugee crisis in Ukraine, D’Ambrosio and Olympic figure skating champion Brian Boitano began hosting a series of benefit concerts in 2023 across the U.S. to raise funds for the Western Dominican Friars, who provide food, shelter, medical and psychological care to refugees streaming into Poland from Ukraine. To date he and Boitano have led the charge to raise over $1 million.
In July 2022, D’Ambrosio was personally invited by the legendary Andrea Bocelli to perform in two private concerts at his private estate in Forte di Marmi, Italy, accompanied on piano by Bocelli’s longtime composer and vocal coach, Maestro Carlo Bernini. Until meeting Bocelli at the first concert, D’Ambrosio was unaware that his performance in Godfather III inspired the iconic tenor to record his own version of the Academy Award-winning theme song "Speak Softly Love".
In October 2023, the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy invited D’Ambrosio to perform for its National Celebration of Reading Gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The event featured a presentation by First Lady Jill Biden along with several award-winning authors; Jonathan Capehart from MSNBC served as the evening’s emcee.
D’Ambrosio’s abstract acrylic paintings are displayed in San Francisco’s ArtHaus Gallery and in the permanent collection at Museo ItaloAmericano, as well as some of the most iconic homes in the Bay Area, New York City, Pebble Beach and throughout Europe.
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