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Thomas Walter Hampson (born June 28, 1955) is an American lyric baritone, a classical singer who has appeared world-wide in major opera houses and concert halls and made over 170 musical recordings.
Hampson's operatic repertoire spans a range of more than 80 roles, including the title roles in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Rossini's Guillaume Tell and Il barbiere di Siviglia, Thomas' Hamlet, and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. The center of his Verdi repertoire remains Posa in Don Carlo, Germont in La traviata, the title roles in Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra, and more recently also Amfortas in Wagner's Parsifal and Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca.
As a recitalist Hampson has won worldwide recognition for his thoughtfully researched and creatively constructed programs that explore the rich repertoire of song in a wide range of styles, languages, and periods. He is one of the most important interpreters of German Romantic song – especially known for his interpretations of the music of Gustav Mahler – and, with his "Song of America" project collaboration with the Library of Congress, has become known as the "ambassador" of American song.
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The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...
The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfo...
Verdi wrote this five act opera with a French Libretto for the Paris opera. Premiere 1867. Then there are three...
In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, Tanglewood—the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchest...
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to Go...
"Irresistible" (Opera News) rising-star mezzo Elina Garanca triumphs as Rossini's Cinderella in this delightful...
This hard-edged postmodern production of Giuseppe Verdi's haunting masterpiece brings the story of Shakespeare'...
Keeping with a long-standing tradition, Renee Fleming kicks off the new season at the Met with scenes from Verd...
Don Giovanni's list of romantic conquests reaches into the hundreds. But his reputation as a lothario puts him...
Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others,...
Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is...
Renée Fleming has matured into one of the finest sopranos around at the moment, a true star with a sparkling pe...
In February 1972, the American president Richard Nixon went to China to meet Mao Zedong. In the context of the...
The classic musical by Bernstein, Comden and Green is performed live in concert in Berlin, starring Audra McDon...
La Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a favorite of generat...
This DVD of a live 2005 performance from the Zürich Opera under the musical direction of Franz Welser-Möst has...
Rufus Wainwright's original opera finds Emperor Hadrian devastated after his lover Antinous drowns in the Nile...
2014 marks a year of celebration recognizing the 150th birthday year of the German late-Romantic orchestral, op...
One of the lesser known works by Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra is regarded by most opera lovers as one of hi...
“What is this life—and this death?” Gustav Mahler famously asked when composing his second symphony. Does consc...
Luc Bondy's 1996 production of Don Carlos was staged, recorded and filmed at the Chatelet in Paris. These seven...
A concert performance of Leonard Bernstein's "On the Town" performed at the Barbican Centre in London in 1993,...
This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whol...
Faust - a lonely scholar, despairing of life, who has so far failed to discover its highest meaning - is given...
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnati...
The great storyteller Hoffmann is losing himself to drink. His rival in love, Councillor Lindorf, claims that H...
Acclaimed American baritone Thomas Hampson performs a variety of 19th-century songs based on Romantic-era poetr...
New tenor star Vittorio Grigolo takes on the title role in Offenbach’s fantastical opera, giving a tour-de-forc...
Documentary that explores how philosophy, mythology and music combine in Mahler's Third Symphony to create an a...
Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany, August 2004. Kent Nagano, conductor. Nikolaus Lehnhof...
Live from the Zurich Opera House, 2009.