Thomas Hampson
Walter Thomas 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 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, and was named a "living Legend" by the Librarian James Billington. Hampson's diverse and expansive discography has earned him an Edison Award for Lifetime Achievement, four Edison Awards, four Echo prizes, numerous VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, Gramophone Awards, and Grand Prix du Disque, as well as six Grammy Award nominations, and one Grammy Award. Vienna Acoustics, an Austrian music company, named one of their speakers "The Hampson Edition." Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf once said of her student, "[Thomas Hampson is] the best singer in Europe right now."
Genre: opera, classical-performance, classical-baritone
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Top Tracks
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral": "O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!" (Ode to Joy)
- Mahler: 3 Lieder: No. 2, Winterlied
- Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act 2: "Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre" - "Toréador en garde !" (Escamillo, Carmen, Frasquita, Mercédès, Moralès, Zuñiga, Chœur)
- The Music Of The Night - The Phantom Of The Opera
- Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 2: "Voi signor, che giusto siete"
- Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 4: "Gente, gente, all'armi"
- Bring Him Home
- Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 3: "Riconosci in questo amplesso"
- If Ever I Would Leave You (Camelot)
- Gigi (Gigi)
- Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Act 1: "La ran la le ra ... Largo al factotum della città" (Figaro)
- Porter: Kiss Me, Kate, Act I: Wunderbar
- Menken: Beauty and The Beast: "If I Can't Love Her" (The Beast)
- Berlin: Annie Get Your Gun, Act I: They Say It's Wonderful
- Porter: Kiss Me, Kate, Act 2: "Where Is The Life That Late I Led? (Petruchio)
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Act I: Largo al factotum
- Bizet: Carmen, WD 31, Act 2: "La belle, un mot" (Escamillo, Carmen, Zuñiga)
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Act I: La ran le lerea ... Largo al factotum (Figaro)
- Les pêcheurs de perles, WD 13, Act I: Au fond du temple saint (Nadir, Zurga)
- The Barber of Seville, Act I: Cavatina, La ran le lerea ... Largo al factotum (Figaro)
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