In a very funny interview with Corriere della Sera, Thomas Hampson, who just rawked Bolzano Festival Bozen with a Richard Strauss-Mahler program, gives a shoutout to Leonard Bernstein and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, "who taught me to love music completely, without boundaries", and explains that he loves Kurt Weill and Cole Porter as much as he loves Wagner and Mozart and that,
"with the only exception of Gilbert & Sullivan, I'm open to everything, rap included".