", The baritone's tendency to speak his mind has occasionally raised a few eyebrows in the music business. In March, he made his role dbut as Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca at the Zrich Opera. He had begun appearing professionally with the Spokane Symphony and other Washington-based organizations. What's bad about that is that singing is not just a job, it's my passion, and I feel badly that I can't share that with my family.". In January 1994, Hampson made his debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, singing Mahler and Copland, and conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Hadley suggests that Hampson's driven personality might reflect a need to prove that "a kid who grew up like everyone else" can succeed at the highest echelons of the elitist classical-music business. She is affiliated with University Hospital - University of Michigan. In August he made another debut in Busoni's Doktor Faust. Thomas Hampson with his wife Andrea Herberstein HOME POPULAR POSTS DANCE MUSIC & OPERA PHOTOGRAPHY QUESTIONS & ANSWERS DANCERS SINGERS MY PHOTOS CONTACT Thomas Hampson with his wife Andrea Herberstein 6 May 2017 by Gramilano Leave a Comment Thomas Hampson with his wife Andrea Herberstein Subscribe Login {} [+] 0 Comments SUBSCRIBE CATEGORIES FOLLOW The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong. That year, he also launched his website, www.thomashampson.com. [8], An audition tour in Europe in the early 1980s brought him a contract with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Dsseldorf, as well as the opportunity to study with Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, whom he had met at the Merola program. The same year, he released a Cole Porter tribute album on EMI/Angel. [30] In February he teamed up with Jerry Hadley, Cheryl Studer, and Craig Rutenberg to perform I Hear America Singing at the Barbican Centre in London. "When you're hired for a title role," the 35-year-old singer says later, "you feel you should ride in on your white horse, change your spurs and" -- here, he switches to his best John Wayne imitation -- "do what you were brought in to do. Shortly after, he made his Metropolitan Opera debut on October 9, 1986 as the Count in Le nozze di Figaro. Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. Hampson began 1998 with the world premiere of Richard Danielpour's Elegies in Jacksonville, Florida and later reprised the role at Carnegie Hall. With typical thoroughness he has also read the section of Homer's "Odyssey" covered in the libretto. Here was Don Giovanni in the spirit as well as the flesh. Find Thomas Hampson stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. Andrea. Opera singer Thomas Hampson and his wife Andrea Herberstein, Alexa
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