Thomas Hampson

Thomas Hampson Baritone

Biography

Thomas Hampson is active in opera, concert, recital, musicology, research, and pedagogy. His operatic repertoire includes more than 80 roles, and his discography comprises over 170 albums, many of which have been awarded Grammy Awards, Edison Awards, and major recording prizes.

In 2017, he received the Hugo Wolf Medal jointly with pianist Wolfram Rieger. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Heidelberg Lied Academy, an honorary professor at the Faculty of Philosophy in Heidelberg, and an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

In addition to several honorary doctorates, he holds the title of Kammersänger of the Vienna State Opera and is a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic. During the 2025–2026 season, he performs excerpts from Nixon in China at Boston’s Symphony Hall and New York’s Carnegie Hall under the direction of Andris Nelsons, and appears in recital with Ksenija Sidorova at the Tonhalle in Zurich.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Eugene Onegin (title role), 1998; William Tell (title role), 2003; Parsifal (Amfortas), 2001; Le Roi Arthus (title role), 2015; The Merry Widow (Count Danilo), 2017; Nixon in China (Richard Nixon), 2023.

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Immerse in the Paris Opera universe

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