Born in London, Tristan Hambleton read Art History at St John’s College Cambridge University and Heidelberg Universität, and studied singing and Opera at the Royal Academy of Music London.
This season Tristan plays the role of Father Truelove in The Rake’s Progress with Barbara Hannigan, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir in a tour of Sweden and Germany, Captain Ross in Anthropocene for Salzburger Landestheater, creates the role of Le Daron in La Victoire de Karima world premier by Edwin Baudo for the Orchestre de Paris, Paris Philharmonie and the Paris Olympics and as Bass Soloist in Israel in Egypt with Peter Whelan and the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists at Versailles, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie, Palau de la Música Catalana & Salzbuger Festspiel.
Recent engagements include Envy and High Priest in The Indian Queen at Operá de Lille, Théâtre de Caen, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d'Astree, Marchese d’Obigny in La Traviata for Opéra de Bordeaux, Madman/Witness 3 in Lessons in Love and Violence with George Benjamin and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a tour of Germany, and King Priam in Les Troyens with the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique at the Berlin Philharmonie and the BBC Proms.
In new productions Tristan has created Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera with Sir David Pountney and Carlo Rizzi for Welsh National Opera, Karl in the world premiere of David Bruce’s Nothing for Glyndebourne, Marullo in Rigoletto and Angelotti in Tosca for Oliver Mears’ productions at Nevill Holt Opera and Hermann Ortel in the Hallé’s concert performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Sir Mark Elder.
Concert engagements include Mozart’s Requiem with the Hallé, Haydn Theresienmesse and Elgar The Apostles with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, St Matthew Passion with the Academy of Ancient Music, Messiah and St John’s Passion with the Hanover Band, Handel’s Solomon with the London Mozart Players, Purcell Verse Anthems and with Le Banquet Céleste and Locke’s Pysche with Ensemble Correspondances at the Cologne Philharmonie.
As a recitalist Tristan has performed Schwanengesang for Oxford Lieder and Schubert’s settings of female poetry, he has toured Sweden with Schubert’s Winterreise, Purcell’s Orpeheus Brittanicus at Operá de Lille and has appeared as a guest recitalist at Blackwater Valley, Yorke Trust and Musique Cordiale.
Tristan’s concert repertoire includes all of Bach’s Passions, Mass settings, numerous Cantatas and Magnificat, Haydn’s entire Mass settings, The Creation, Die Jahreszeiten and Salve Regina, Mozart’s entire mass settings, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Messe Solennelle, Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, Handel’s Messiah, Samson, Solomon, Theodora and Esther, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Missa Solemnis, and Mass in C, Purcell The Fairy Queen, Elgar The Apostles and Walton Belshazzar’s Feast.
On the operatic stage Tristan’s repertoire includes the title role in Le Nozze di Figaro, Colline in La Boheme, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, Re di Scozia in Ariodante, Claudio in Agrippina, Somnus in Semele, Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea, Alidoro in Cenerentola, Escamillo in Carmen, Balthazar in La Favorite and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.