Interviews

  • Opera News | November 3, 2007

    America's finest: Thomas Hampson returns to San Francisco

    by DAVID J. BAKER

    Thomas Hampson, whose European opera career has outpaced engagements in his native country, is now appearing with more frequency in U.S. opera houses. This month, San Francisco Opera welcomes the baritone's first stateside Macbeth; later this season, he’ll sing Germont at Lyric Opera of Chicago and Don Carlo in the Met's Ernani.... read more

  • San Jose Mercury News | October 12, 2007

    Mahler 'has overwhelmed my life,' singer says

    by RICHARD SCHEININ

    Thomas Hampson was raised in Spokane and loves American song, everything from Stephen Foster to Charles Ives to Cole Porter to Emmylou Harris. But since the late 1980s he has lived in Vienna and, as most everyone who has followed his career knows, has an especially deep affinity for the music of Gustav Mahler... read more

  • Mercury News

    Mercury News | May 6, 2007

    Hampson is a vocal advocate of art songs, Mahler

    by RICHARD SCHEININ

    Vienna-based baritone, whose outreach includes web site, sings in S.F. this week.
    It's not enough that Thomas Hampson is one of the greatest living baritones, a leading recitalist and opera stage performer. He also is a scholar, co-editor of a critical edition of Mahler songs, and a Web innovator; his site at www.hampsong.com is a miles-deep repository of information on the "art of song," as he puts it... read more

  • Gramophone

    Gramophone | August 2006

    Soundbites | Diary

    Thomas Hampson - the leading American baritone gets folksy on his iPod with Bruce Springsteen ... read more

  • Playbillarts

    PlaybillArts | January 22, 2007

    Features: The Conversation: Thomas Hampson

    by MATT DOBKIN

    The star of the Met's upcoming Simon Boccanegra is one of opera's most tech-savvy singers. The baritone talks to the Met's Matt Dobkin about multimedia and why finding clips of himself on YouTube can be "horrifying." ... read more

  • Sonntagszeitung

    Sonntagszeitung | September 18, 2006

    "Planet der Affen als Oper? Bin dabei!"

    von KAI LUEHRS-KAISER

    Star-Bariton Thomas Hampson singt in Zürich «Faust» und findet, Klugheit nütze ihm dabei wenig... weiter lesen

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  • Thomas Hampson - "Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen" by Gustav Mahler; Wolfram Rieger, piano
    This is from the "Voices of our Time" special featuring several Mahler Lieder selections.

  • Théâtre du Châtelet production of Strauss' Arabella. "Zdenkerl, du bist die Bessere von uns Zweien" from Act III. Cast: Karita Mattila (Arabella), Thomas Hampson (Mandryka), Barbara Bonney (Zdenka)... Christoph von Dohnányi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra.