ROSE E. BAMPTON - BMHOF CLASS OF 2023
LEGACY INDUCTEE

A versatile opera singer who spent her childhood in Buffalo and went on to sing lead roles asboth a soprano and mezzo-soprano on the Metropolitan Opera stage. 

Bampton was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1907. After growing up in Buffalo, she studied voice at Drake University in Iowa, and first performed professionally in Faust at the Chautauqua Operain 1929. She also sang in the Philadelphia Grand Opera and with the Philadelphia Orchestra,while studying further at the Curtis Institute there. 

Bampton made her Met debut in La Gioconda in 1932, after she had been singing professionally for only three years. Rose also made notable appearances in San Francisco, Chicago, and Buenos Aires. She performed sporadically after 1950, focusing on a second career as a college voice instructor in New York City and elsewhere. Bampton died in 2007 at age 99.