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With training including Juilliard School and Westminster Choir College, tenor Frank Patrick Hampton has worked extenstively on the opera and concert stages, as a choral conductor, and as a church organist. 

dr. Hampton debuted with the Des Moines Metro Opera in Ariadne auf Naxos (Truffaldino), and in the apprentice program in La Boheme (Colline) and Don Carlo (Fillipo).   Other roles include Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas) and Danciero (Carmen) with Concert Opera Philadelphia, New Jersey Opera Theater, the New Jersey Concert Opera, and Opera Works, Los Angeles.  He made his Academy of Music debut with the Savoy Company in the Gondoliers (Guiseppe).  He has sung as soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra, Ocean City Pops and the Bay-Atlantic Symphony.  Mr. Hampton holds three degrees in Civil Engineering including his Ph.D, has extensively published his work worldwide, and holds an appointment as assistant professor of civil engineering at Villanova University.   

 

My Mission Statement

To educate audiences with a wide range of classical musical repertoire;  


A thrilling musical experience.
— Access to Arts Inc.

Career Highlights

  • Soloist
  • Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Philadelphia Singers
  • Des Moines Metro Opera
  • Opera Works, Los Angeles
  • Ocean City Pops
  • Spoleto Festival, Italy (chorus)
  • Opera Philadelphia (chorus)