Let’s face it. Except for Athanael in Thais, Rigoletto, Macbeth, King Dodon in The Golden Cockerel and Eugene Onegin and a few others, baritone roles are mostly utility roles for the opera-the soprano’s father or the stereotypical villain. When you see that soprano and tenor get three curtain calls and sometimes a bouquet and lots of press interviews, it can bother you a lot if you are a mezzo or baritone. What you must bear in mind is the utility singers are the backbone of the opera like the chorus and conductor. Everyone needs to pull their weight if they want the performance to be a success. There are no insignificant roles-just showy and less showy parts. It is all about PERSPECTIVE.
So what? There are also singers with a good voice, who have a problem processing information. I am not saying Hampson has. Be grateful you obviously have a great memory. Not everyone is as perfect as you are.
What makes you say that? How is your voice and your memory? Can you do better than he? Never compare with others. Each person is an individual who has a talent for something and is less good at something else, like for instance memorizing....
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Superb as usually - I can listen without a pause - so exciting - as the explanation and of course the rendition of the music /singing - thank you !
Wow, that’s it “larger than ourselves”, let go of ego and make the art “possess” us, wholly given over to it.
Bravo Mr Thomas Hampson !!
Just wonderful. Reduced me to tears. More please!
i'm watching a late night CUNY TV programme and this gentleman Thomas Hampson is singing and he really got my attention. WOW.
Exactly…Thank you !! 😊
Lovely. Thank you. We're excited to have him on our stage soon!
Nagyon jó volt hallani és látni tanítását , irányítását !!
Just met him today in Vienna… together with his wife and little dog 🤓 a complete unpretentious man
😀
Great video!
Am I hearing his accent correctly? It's almost like hearing Sean Connery here. By the sound of his lisp.
Let’s face it. Except for Athanael in Thais, Rigoletto, Macbeth, King Dodon in The Golden Cockerel and Eugene Onegin and a few others, baritone roles are mostly utility roles for the opera-the soprano’s father or the stereotypical villain. When you see that soprano and tenor get three curtain calls and sometimes a bouquet and lots of press interviews, it can bother you a lot if you are a mezzo or baritone. What you must bear in mind is the utility singers are the backbone of the opera like the chorus and conductor. Everyone needs to pull their weight if they want the performance to be a success. There are no insignificant roles-just showy and less showy parts. It is all about PERSPECTIVE.
Not loudly, not weak, It's really good interpretations.
Hampson cares about non-existent storytellers and Der Wanderer.
Please listen also to Fisher Dieskau
Fisher Dieskau was without peer. But this guy is damn good, too!
So great artist and human being
🙏🧡
Wish one could hear the whole recital by Hampson
Magyarázata Schubertről és zenéjéről a német nyelvről magasröptű
Superb.
👍
Oh my god! is he singing with score??? terrible!!
it is reading from the page! not more!
and still manages to slip in some text errors.....
So what?
There are also singers with a good voice, who have a problem processing information. I am not saying Hampson has. Be grateful you obviously have a great memory. Not everyone is as perfect as you are.
Thank you! But he is singing the most famous Songs, 100 times sung in a concert! Its not art to sing it with score!
Undeveloped tenor.
What makes you say that?
How is your voice and your memory?
Can you do better than he?
Never compare with others. Each person is an individual who has a talent for something and is less good at something else, like for instance memorizing....