This winter, Thomas Hampson joins the Swiss Orchestra and Music Director Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer for a three-city Swiss tour celebrating the vocal and symphonic masterworks of Gustav Mahler alongside rare Romantic orchestral gems. Internationally revered as one of the preeminent Mahler interpreters of...
Black Song: A Manifesto for Music and Justice centers acts of musical creation and performance that emerge from Black experiences, affirm Black humanity, and connect to Black communities. Written for scholars, performers, and music fans, the book shows that learning about Black Song and its creation is...
This November, Thomas Hampson returns to Washington National Opera to sing the title role of John Adams’s landmark opera Nixon in China, presented in a major new staging at DAR Constitution Hall. The engagement marks a continuation of Hampson’s acclaimed interpretation of Richard Nixon, following...
Thomas Hampson joins the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as the baritone soloist in William Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast for their subscription series and annual Symphony Ball. The performances mark a celebrated return for the baritone, who last appeared with the CSO in January 2019 for a program of...
Thomas Hampson performs Robert Owens’s song cycle Fields of Wonder as part of the Liedstadt Festival in Hamburg on October 3. Hampson has long championed the works of African American composers, notably curating the 2021 festival “Song of America: A Celebration of Black Music” at the...
Thomas Hampson performs an evening of Mahler with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko as part of the Gstaad Menuhin Festival on August 28. Hampson previously collaborated with Petrenko and the orchestra on performances featuring orchestral lieder and American repertoire....