As the weather becomes cooler, it's the perfect time to listen to Schubert's 'Winterreise'. My longtime Liedpartner Wolfram Rieger and I return to this great work at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on 1 Nov

🎟️: www.festspielhaus.de/veranstaltungen/die-winterreise/?date=2025-11-01-1800

Happy #WorldOperaDay! Thinking about this day reminded me of the first time I was bitten by the "opera bug". I hope everyone spends today enjoying at least a little bit opera, and reflecting on how lucky we all are to have been bitten by opera bugs 🙏

🎥: OPERA America, 2013

Macau! Wolfram Rieger and I enjoyed performing Mahler for you yesterday evening! Today, we went out and did some more sight-seeing and had a great time 👍

Next stop: Copenhagen 🇩🇰 for Schoenberg with Fabio Luisi and the DR Symfoniorkestret

Spending some time in Shenzhen, which is only an hour-long ferry ride across the Pearl River Delta from Macau! It's wonderful to be here, despite the high temperatures, and I'm truly looking forward to our Mahler recital later this week!

🎟️: www.icm.gov.mo/en/news/deta...

🎂 Happy Birthday to Giuseppe Verdi! From 'Simon Boccanegra' to 'Don Carlos' to 'Falstaff', his genius left us a treasure trove of high drama, great art, and damned good music.

To honor Verdi, here is a clip of "Pieta rispetto amore" from the final act of 'Macbeth' (Opernhaus Zürich, 2001).

It's hard to believe this coming Saturday we will begin our SIXTH edition of the Internationale Opernwerkstatt Waiblingen.

If you would like to watch some of our master classes, you can view a selection live on YouTube on 16 & 17 September at this link 🔗 youtube.com/@internationaleopernwerksta3554

Christoph von Dohnányi was one of the most intense, disciplined, creative musicians I ever met. A wonderful colleague a profound musician he will be missed greatly. Rest in peace Maestro- You have left us better than you found us.

Thomas Hampson

🎬: Hugo Wolf w/ NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, 2009

In only a week’s time we will welcome 12 young artists from all over the world to Waiblingen for our sixth annual Internationale Opernwerkstatt Waiblingen. Melanie and I cannot wait to meet and work with everyone!

🎟️: www.internationale-opernwerkstatt-waiblingen.de/de/Events-Tickets

Pure joy rang through Sāo Paulo last week in 'Freedom Unbound': A collaboration between the Orchester Wiener Akademie, Hamburger Kammerballett, and the Tucca Musica Festival. Thank you to Edvin Revazov for your brilliant choreography, and to Ilia Korol for her equally brilliant musical direction 🇧🇷🎶

Last week I had the most lovely time in Verbier: Singing and seeing gorgeous music, spending time with family and old friends, and enjoying the beautiful mountains 🏔️ Thank you, 🇨🇭, for a wonderful time!

Munich! Join us tomorrow night for 'Così fan tutte' at the Bayerische Staatsoper. We have a great cast and a moving production by Benedict Andrews. I love this city and this company dearly and it’s an honor to be back ⭐️

Find tickets here: www.staatsoper.de/en/productio...