VIANOČNÝ KONCERT THOMASA HAMPSONA ✨🎄

✨🎄 THOMAS HAMPSON'S CHRISTMAS CHARITY CONCERT 🎄 ✨

One of the world's greatest opera personalities is coming to Bratislava - Thomas Hampson, the legendary American baritone. He is the recipient of numerous international awards and nominations for the GRAMMY Awards. He performed on the most prestigious opera stages in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Wiener Staatsoper and La Scala in Milan.

The proceeds from the concert will be used for the restoration of the historic church of the Order of Malta in the Bratislava Castle - a place where volunteers and members of the order, who help hundreds of people daily in Slovakia, meet for a long time. This church is not only a cultural monument from 1738, but also the quiet heart of the community, from which many charitable activities grow. Its restoration will allow it to continue to be a base for serving people in need.

This unique evening will take place in the mystical atmosphere of St. Martin, one of the most iconic churches in Bratislava 📅 16/12/2025 at 19:30.

In addition to Thomas Hampson, his musical friends - tenor Giulio Putrino and pianist Elitsa Desseva - will also perform. Together they will bring a program composed of beautiful arias and Christmas songs that will create an unforgettable festive atmosphere.

👉 Tickets:
W. A. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro – "Hai già vinta la causa" – Thomas Hampson
G. Bizet: Carmen – "La fleur que tu m'avais jetée" – Giulio Putrino
G. Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles – "Au fond du temple saint" – duet
J. Massenet: Hérodiade – "Vision Fugitive" – Thomas Hampson
G. Verdi: Luisa Miller – "O fede negar potessi, Quando le sere al placido" – Giulio Putrino
G. Verdi: Don Carlo – "Dio, che nell'alma infondere" – duet
G. Verdi: Don Carlo – "Per me giunto… io morrò" – Thomas Hampson
P. I. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin – "Kuda, kuda" – Giulio Putrino

Piano interlude – Elitsa Desseva

Panis angelicus – duet
A. Adam: O Holy Night – Giulio Putrino
I wonder as I wander – Thomas Hampson
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Giulio Putrino
The Christmas Song – duet

Encores ad libitum


THOMAS HAMPSON

For many years, the American baritone Thomas Hampson has been considered one of the most innovative musicians of our time. He has received countless international awards for his unique artistic personality and cultural leadership. His opera repertoire includes more than 80 roles and his discography consists of more than 170 albums, while he won and was nominated for several GRAMMY, Edison Award and Grand Prix du Disque awards. Thomas Hampson has performed on the most prestigious opera stages in the world, including the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Wiener Staatsoper, La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House in London and the Opéra National de Paris.

This season, Hampson sings the title role in Adams' opera Nixon in China at the Opéra de Paris under the baton of Kent Nagano. He will return to this role during the season in concert performances of selections from the opera with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Andris Nelsons at Boston Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Tanglewood Festival. The year 2025 will end with a star-studded Christmas Night Opera Gala in Carnegie Hall with conductor Francesco Lanzillot.

After last year's extremely successful tour in venues such as Het Concertgebouw, Konzert Theater Coesfeld and Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Hampson is returning to Europe this year for the second tour of Schubert's Winterreise in collaboration with accordionist Ksenija Sidorová, with concerts at Verbier Festival, Bergen Festival, London's Kings Place and Tonhalle Zürich. He also continues to collaborate with pianist Wolfram Rieger with a program of Mahler songs on tour in China - at the Shenzhen Belt Road Festival, Macau Festival and Changsha Concerto Hall; together they will present Winterreise at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. Later in the season, Hampson will appear at the Aspen Music Festival with an all-American program.

He is an honorary professor of philosophy at the University of 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 Wiener Staatsoper and the award of Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic, as well as an honorary artist of the Guangzhou Opera House. In 2017, together with Wolfram Rieger, he received the Hugo-Wolf-Medaille. He is the co-founder and artistic director of the Lied Academy Heidelberg and in 2003 founded the Hampsong Foundation, through which he promotes intercultural dialogue and understanding through the art of song. His international master classes are a permanent online resource on Medici.tv, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Hampsong Foundation's livestream channel. In addition, he acts as an advisor to the Opera for Peace initiative. More: www.thomashampson.com

ORDER OF MALTA:

The Sovereign Order of Malta is one of the oldest institutions of Western and Christian civilization and as a lay religious order of the Catholic Church has existed since 1113. Today, as a subject of international law, the Sovereign Order of Malta maintains diplomatic relations with more than 100 states and the European Union and has the status of a permanent observer at the UN. The Order of Malta is neutral, impartial and apolitical.

The Order of Malta is active in 120 countries around the world, where it cares for the needy through health, social and humanitarian work. The wide range of social projects of the Order ensures constant daily support for the forgotten and marginalized members of our society. In addition to its charitable activities in the developed countries of the Western world, the Order is particularly dedicated to helping people who are in the middle of armed conflicts and natural disasters, providing them with health care, helping refugees and carrying out the distribution of medicines and basic survival aids. Throughout the world, the Order of Malta is committed to protecting human dignity and helping those in need, regardless of race or creed. In Slovakia, the Order of Malta carries out its activities through the Embassy of the Order of Malta in the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Association of the Order of Malta, under which Maltese Aid Slovakia also belongs as its executive organization. The main task of Maltese Aid Slovakia is to act according to the motto of the Order of Malta, i.e. to serve the suffering and defend the faith.

Service to the suffering manifests itself mainly in the field of social care and health services, regardless of the religion, race or other affiliation of the person in need. In Slovakia, Maltese Aid has several projects aimed at caring for dependent elderly people (e.g. the project of daily delivery of hot lunches to more than 140 households), socialization and education of the Roma community (e.g. community center in Topolčany), or helping homeless people (regular distribution of warm clothes and material from collections in several Slovak cities). Maltese Aid Slovakia was also one of the first organizations providing aid to people fleeing the war in Ukraine directly at the Vyšné Nemecké border crossing. The management of all official institutions and organizations of the Order of Malta in Slovakia perform their work on the basis of honorary functions. More: www.orderofmalta.sk