Video: The Pope's Own Musicians

April 1, 2008

The pope's personal choir and orchestra are giving public performances of works they typically only play for the pontiff himself.

Bassoons — The orchestra accompanies the pope on particularly important occasionsImage: picture-alliance/ ZB

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The pope's choir and orchestra go on tour

Monsignor Marco Frisina, head of the Diocese of Rome choir and orchestra nicknamed the "Pope's Own” is one of the more unconventional prelates within the Vatican. He has a personal website in three languages with a list of his CDs ranging from his 1986 Benedici Il Signore (Bless the Lord) to his latest release, Jesus Christ You are my Life, which was cut for Pope Benedict's visit to Bavaria last year. Now, for the first time in history, he will go on tour with the orchestra without the Holy Father. We report from the Palm Sunday Vatican mass when the choir sings before Pope Benedict XVI and from a concert in Glauchau near Chemnitz, one of the eleven cities of the tour that started March 30th.

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