Born in London, bass- baritone Tristan Hambleton studied at St John’s College – Cambridge University, Heidelberg Universität and the Royal Academy of Music, London. He has performed with leading orchestras including the Hallé, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Britten Sinfonia and Le Concert d’Astrée and in venues including Wigmore Hall, Auditorium de Bordeaux, The Bridgewater Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall and the Concertgebouw Amsterdam. He has worked for companies such as Glyndebourne Opera, Welsh National Opera, The Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Opéra de Lille.
Tristan has appeared as Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera in a new production by Sir David Pountney and Carlo Rizzi for Welsh National Opera, created the role of Karl in the world premiere of David Bruce’s Nothing for Glyndebourne and sung Marullo in Rigoletto and Angelotti in Tosca for Oliver Mears’ productions at Nevill Holt Opera as well as Hermann Ortel in the Hallé’s concert performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Sir Mark Elder.
Recent and future engagements include Messiah with Marc Minkowski in Bordeaux and Île de Ré, Envy and High Priest in The Indian Queen at Opéra de Lille with Emmanuel Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée, Pilatus in Bach’s St John’s Passion with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, a recital of Orpheus Brittanicus at Opéra de Lille, Purcell Odes and Welcome Songs with Le Banquet Celeste at Opéra de Rennes, a Swedish tour of Schubert’s Winterreise, Schubert’s Schwanengesang for Oxford Lieder, Quince in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Nevill Holt Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence Mozart Residency, Rossini’s Péchés de Vieillesse at Auditorio de Tenerife, Marchese d’Obigny in La Traviata for Opéra de Bordeaux and Madman/Witness 3 in Lessons in Love and Violence with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
Repertoire
Mozart
Madamina, il catalogo è questo – Don Giovanni (6’)
Non più andrai – Le Nozze di Figaro (4’)
Rossini
La calunnia – Il Barbiere di Siviglia (5’)
Bellini
Vi ravviso – La sonnambula (3’)
Donizetti
Cedi cedi o più sciagure – Lucia di Lammermoor (4’)
Massenet
Épouse quelque brave fille – Manon (2’)
Wolf
3 Michelangelo songs:
– Wohl denkt ich oft (2’)
– Alles endet, was entstehet (5’)
– Fühlt meine Seele (5’)
– An die Geliebte (3’)
– Gebet (3’)
Brahms
Auf dem Kirchhofe (3’)
Feldeinsamkeit (3’)
Lerchengesang (3’)
Verzagen (3’)
Schubert
Op. 21:
– Auf der Donau (3’)
– Der Schiffer (2’)
– Wie Ulfru fischt (2’)
– Der Zwerg (5’30)
– Auf der Bruck (3’30)
– Gondelfahrer (2’)
– Am Flusse (1’30)
– Herbst (3’30)
– Das gestörte Glück (2’)
– Fischerweise (3’30)
– Im Frühling (5’)
– Schwanengesang (including)
– Kriegers Ahnung (5’)
– Ständchen (4’)
– Aufenthalt (4’)
– Der Atlas (2’30)
– Fischermädchen (2’30)
– Taubenpost (4’)
Tchaikovsky
None but the lonely heart (3’)
Schumann
– Tragödie (1’30)
– Geständnis (1’30)
– Frühlingsfahrt (3’)
– Mein Wagen rollet langsam (3’30)
Ives
There’s nae lark (2’)