Thomas Hampson (baritone)

Walter Thomas Hampson ( born June 28, 1955 in Elkhart, Indiana) is an American baritone.

Life and artistic work

Hampson grew up in Spokane ( Washington). He was a student of Marietta Coyle, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Martial Singher and Horst Günter, he sings operas, operettas, musicals, oratorios and songs. His repertoire includes the title and main roles of Mozart's operas ( Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte ), Verdi ( Don Carlo, La Traviata, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra ) and Tchaikovsky ( Eugene Onegin ), as well as from the works of Gluck ( Iphigenia in Tauris ), Wagner ( Parsifal ), Massenet, Strauss ( Arabella ), Busoni, Szymanowski and Lehàr ( The Merry Widow ). Positive criticism was Thomas Hampson particularly as an interpreter of the great tradition of art song ( Schubert, Schumann, Wolf), as well as lesser-known works of the Song history (Barber, Berlioz, Copland, Ives, Meyerbeer ) and the orchestral and piano songs of Gustav Mahler.

In the fall of 2003, he called the Hampsong Foundation in the research projects, symposia, master classes and lecture recitals supported and organized. He has received various international awards; he is an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music, and many awards include the Chevalier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

In 1987 he made ​​his debut at the Vienna State Opera and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. At the Salzburg Festival he performed since 1988. In addition to concerts and numerous recitals he sang leading roles in the following operas: " Doktor Faust " ( Busoni ), " King Roger " ( Szymanowski ), " Don Carlos " (Verdi), "Iphigenie en Tauride " ( Gluck ), " Don Giovanni " (Mozart), " La Traviata" (Verdi).

2012 Hampson sang at the Zurich Opera, the role of Iago in Verdi's Otello and the title role in Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, and the New York Met Verdi's Macbeth.

Hampson, a daughter from his first marriage, lives since 1986 (with interruptions ), with Austrian Andrea Herber stone together, 2014 in New York and Vienna. The two are married to each other. His son is the Italian bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni.

Discography ( a selection)

Awards

  • Golden Medal of the City of Salzburg
  • 2013 Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Heidelberg
  • 2013 International Mendelssohn Prize in Leipzig
Elkhart (Indiana) Spokane, Washington Mathis der Maler (opera) Macbeth (opera) James Levine Michel Plasson Michel Corboz Charles Mackerras Graham Johnson (musician) Geoffrey Parsons (pianist) Kent Nagano Kurt Masur Samuel Ramey Daniel Barenboim Theaterlexikon der Schweiz Integrated Authority File
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