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Tristan Hambleton (born 4 December 1988) is a British bass-baritone opera singer.

Early Life
Hambleton was born in London, the son of Hale Hambleton and Diana Mitchell. Hale played principal clarinet in the English National Opera and Diana was an Architect. When he was eight, he became a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral, London. He enjoyed a career as a treble soloist singing with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Les Arts Florissants and Boys Air Choir. During this time he recorded the Karl Jenkin's The Armed Man. He later joined The King's School, Canterbury where he was made Captain of School.

Hambleton read History of Art at Cambridge University and also sang as a choral scholar at St John's College, Cambridge. He then went on to study at Heidelberg University and the Royal Academy of Music.

Career
Hambleton has sung Handel with Marc Minkowski and Wagner with Sir Mark Elder. He created the role of Karl in Nothing by David Bruce for Glyndebourne and in 2018 he was Mozart Resident at Aix-en-Provence Festival.

He has sung with The Hallé, The London Mozart Players, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The English Chamber Orchestra, The Hanover Band, Le Banquet Céleste and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2019 he will sing Tom in Un Ballo in Maschera for Welsh National Opera under Carlo Rizzi and David Pountney and Isemeron in Indian Queen under Emmanuelle Haïm at Opera de Lille.