Tenor and entrepreneur Micheal Castaldo

(WTNH) -- Micheal Castaldo is an Italian-born tenor playing to audiences all over the world.

Castaldo is also an entrepreneur. He rebuilt his family's abandoned home in Calabria into a rental villa, developed an olive oil cooperative in New York City, has an events planning business that does Tuscan-style weddings on the East Coast and experimenting with a new fragrance.

His passion was, and is music, but when debt came to call that brought about all the other businesses.

"The music business is a very difficult business. There are a lot of mavericks," Castaldo said. "Not everyone, you know, has the -- what's the word I want to use -- a conscious. And so there's a lot of trials and tribulations to get from point A to point B. So I had a series of concerts and tours that did not make money and I found myself in an incredible amount of debt."

Castaldo was 40 at the time. So what happens when the passion is there, with a great operatic voice, but it's not working?

"What happens is you try to figure out what else you can be passionate about, just to distract you, to like live life, to feel and then try to have some success there and then incorporate that back into what you failed originally at. That's the way I look at it."

You can listen to Michael's music and find out more about him by going to michealcastaldo.com