Giuseppe Verdi: Documentary with Thomas Hampson | Incl. La Traviata, Nabucco, Il Trovatore, Macbeth

"Fly, Thought, On Golden Wings: Verdi's life told by Thomas Hampson": In this documentary, acclaimed baritone Thomas Hampson guides us through Giuseppe Verdi's life - by performing some of his famous arias from La Traviata, Il Trovatore or Macbeth, and visiting Milan, Venice and Paris.

00:00 Introduction to Giuseppe Verdi's life
Performances:
10:54 Verdi - I Due Foscari, "O veccio cor..." (Thomas Hampson)
17:07 Verdi - Macbeth, "Pietà, rispetto, amore" (Thomas Hampson)
30:45 Verdi - Il Trovatore, "Tout est desert...Son regard" (Thomas Hampson)
49:11 Verdi - La Traviata, "Die provenza il mar" (Thomas Hampson)

Performers:
Thomas Hampson - vocal
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Richard Armstrong - conductor

Other music:
Verdi - La Traviata, Overture (The Royal Opera House Orchestra, George Solti)
Gioachino Rossini - The Barber of Seville (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)
Verdi - La Traviata, Prelude 3 Act (The Royal Opera House Orchestra, George Solti)
Verdi - Nabucco, Overture (Berlin Phalharmonic, Claudio Abbado)
Verdi - I Vespri Siciliani, Overture (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)
Verdi -La Forza del destino, Overture (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)
Verdi - Aida, Triumphal March (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado, Rundfunkchor Berlin)
Verdi - Messa da Requiem (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado, Swedish Radio Choir)
Verdi - Nabucco, Hebrew Slaves Chorus (Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado)

About the film

Giuseppe Verdi, Italy’s most admired and best-known composer, creator of repertoire masterpieces such as Nabucco, Aida and the world-famous Requiem Mass (sometimes referred to as "Verdi’s most beautiful opera") died in Milan, Italy, on the 27th of January 1901.
On the occasion of the centennial of his death, EuroArts produced a documentary (written by Peter Beringer and directed by Felix Breisach) about his life and music. The program is hosted by Thomas Hampson, eloquent and world-famous baritone. The footage was shot on locations in Italy (e.g. Milan, Venice) and France (Paris).

Title: Fly, Thought, On Golden Wings: Verdi's life told by Thomas Hampson

Director: Felix Breisach

2001, EuroArts, NHK, ORF

[milverineh]

This is one of the better documentaries on Verdi and Hampson makes a good narrator. 🦅

[emitch]

Bravo! The sounds of Verdi...only to experience...no words to describe...just VA!...hear the great Verdi...🌹

[aidavocal]

Thank you for this beautiful documentary. I was named after his opera Aida (and I’m not Italian), so Verdi has always been close to my heart. And in high school I performed Va Pensiero with my school chorus. Many years ago. Beautiful memories.

[anpaglia]

Bravo, Maestro Hampson ! Very well produced and thank you for your excellent rendition of Verdi arias. Also, your masterclasses are outstanding as well. Thank you.

[marcellepesek]

What a beautiful production! Everything about this documentary is excellent! Thank you so much for this very educational and entertaining biography of maestro Verdi's life. His legacy cannot be overestimated, he left us a vast treasure of magnificent music! I hope many more people will get to hear and love it, too! "Va, pensiero", this majestic chorus with such painful yearning for the fatherland, speaks to every heart that has ever earned for its faraway home. Bravo, Signore Verdi! Thank you for your splendid operas.
Thank you, Mr. Hampson for this excellent film. I really admire your performances of the most poignant arias, with the majestic architecture of Italy being the best setting for Verdi's immortal music.

[mingu]

thanks a lot Maestro to present this outstanding documentary.

[hannahofbauer]

What a beautiful podcast, one can enter the world of my hero Giuseppe Verdi, the best Maestro in opera, thank you so much for this wonderful documentary Thomas Hampson

[rachelmaress]

Thank you so much for this spectacular biography

[peterpeterlin]

What a presentation of European civilization.

[Rosangela]

Welcome!! Fascinating documentary. Thomas Hampson magnificent always. Thank you and congratulations for sharing this adorable performance. 😊🌹

[michaelrollo]

Verdi is my favorite composer I wish I could write half as much beautiful music even if it were symphonies the music man writes God writes

[marjaashamalla]

A very fine documentary, and your singing was a special musical joy, as always, Mr. Hampson. Thenks for both!

[KWT]

Giuseppe Verdi was born #otd in 1813 🌹🌹🌹

[malvinderkaur]

absolutely, these legacies of true art talent is always going to remain.... tucce plebian minds have no awareness or even know what creating true everlasting legacies means...

[QuicknStraight]

Hampson has a great voice. I saw him singing Wolfram, in Tannhauser, some years ago, and he was excellent.

[melaniamonicacraciun]

Here is the best topic for a Hollywood movie worthy an Oscar award but more than an Oscar winning prize, getting seven billion dollars profits like Avatar fantasy should be much better, try to guess how much l would love to donate such an important figure an artistic TV network like yours, time to move on guys. During the Covid pandemic only phones were a successful business, let us know as fans, your phone dealers how much do they spend for such investments, for such movie productions, let's create jobs giving young artists the chance to work on important projects, not that much a Verdi's kind of biographic movie but ...someone who did not like him much, the dark side of a story is always more intrigui exciting creepy and nobody could ever skip it. A stalker, a loser, a guy filled of envy, a death threat behind a big genius composer is always a great fun to see things from the other side, think about it guys. Music unites us so well, we become partners in business if we like it or not, let's make some money then, let's make these golden mine worthy, think about it Ok?

[spade]

Hampton is superb in Mahler but not really suitable for Italian operas

[xxsarumanxx]

Thomas Hampson shouldn't be singing Verdi. There, I said it

[charliekim]

Was Verdi lucky? Compare lives (and, more unfairly, deaths) of Mozart, Schubert, and even Beethoven, to Verdi's (or Wagner's, for that matter.) Life is unfair.

[josephdiluzio]

Sorry to be discordant but I strongly disagree about Thomas Hampson's voice: it's absence of baritone Timbre, lack of true Italian legato, all exacerbated by a weak upper register can be clearly heard in his rendition of
" O Vecchio Cor."