FULL The Incredible Power of Words, Musical Craft, and Freedom Interview Verbier 2025 THOMAS HAMPSON

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Incredible Power of Words, Musical Craft, and Freedom  
• Composer: N/A  
• Libretto: N/A  
• Venue & Opera Company: Verbier, Switzerland  
• Recorded: July 2025
• Type: Other
• Singers: Thomas Hampson
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Information about the Recording

• Published by: Living the Creative Life  
• Date Published: 2026  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, itsubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  American baritone Thomas Hampson joins host Zsolt Bognár on location at Verbier Festival for a conversation about music, stage, song, and what it means to be an American in today’s volatile climate. He shares advice for singers, discusses the power of words, and pays tribute to his late friend Jerry Hadley.

  Thomas Hampson has appeared world-wide in major opera houses and concert halls and made over 170 musical recordings. His operatic repertoire spans a range of more than 80 roles, including the title roles in Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Rossini’s Guillaume Tell and Il barbiere di Siviglia, Thomas’ Hamlet, and Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. As a recitalist Hampson has won worldwide recognition for his thoughtfully researched and creatively constructed programs that explore the rich repertoire of song in a wide range of styles, languages, and periods. Hampson’s diverse and expansive discography has earned him an Edison Award for Lifetime Achievement, four Edison Awards, four Echo prizes, numerous VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, Gramophone Awards, and Grand Prix du Disque, as well as six Grammy Award nominations, and one Grammy Award

  Chapters
  0:00 Intro Quote and Verbier Festival
  1:00 Schubert Winterreise
  1:54 Finding Joy on Stage
  2:36 Music: Letter to Mrs. Bixby
  4:07 Re-centering Yourself: Function and Content
  7:10 Knowing Your Audience’s Reactions
  9:27 Words Are a Metaphor of the Imagination
  10:50 Not Being Defeated By a Role
  16:21 Remembering Jerry Hadley (1952-2007)
  19:22 A Love of American Song
  22:18 What Is American Culture and Diversity
  23:08 Singing at The White House in 1996
  24:46 I’m a Deeply Concerned American
  27:10 Closing Credits

  Filmed in Verbier Switzerland in July 2025
  Video: Katalog-film.de

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