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Daniel Carison only male vocalist in Great Romantics Competition
Daniel CarisonBaritone Daniel Carison is the only male vocalist to advance to the finals of the 4th Annual Great Romantics Competition. The other finalists include four pianists, an oboist, a violist...
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Barihunk strip tease in The Merry Widow (in Germany, of course!)
Laurence Meikle and Marco VassalliA reader is Germany pointed out that the current production of Lehar's Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) at the Theater Altenburg in Gera, Germany features two...
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James Newby in “To Russia With (Gay) Love” video
The barbershop quartet Short, Back & Sides and featured baritone James NewbyWe posted this on our Twitter feed yesterday, but we feel like it should be featured on the main site, as well. It's a...
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Reader submission: Joa Helgesson
Joa HelgessonJoa Helgesson, is our latest "reader submission" and he was submitted by a regular attendee at the Göteborgs Opera. He studied voice at the University College of Opera in Stockholm and...
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FIVE barihunks at the "Jeunes ambassadeurs lyriques"
Jonathan Estabrooks, Philip Kalmanovitch, Cairan Ryan, Andrey Andreychik, & Pierre RancourtThere were five -- yes, count 'em -- five barihunks at tonight's Benefit Gala Concert of the "Jeunes...
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Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia to make Marinsky debut
Anton Perminov and Vladimir Moroz Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, an opera that is featured regularly on this site due to its heavy reliance on baritones, is being premiered this week at the Mariinsky...
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Kyle Ketelsen's sexy and scene stealing turn as Méphistophélès
Kyle Ketelsen as MéphistophélèsWe recently reported on the performance of Gounod's Faust at the Zurich Operathat opened on November 3rd and runs through December 11th. The sexy cast cast is led by...
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Bevy of baritones in Met Auditions in New York
Pnini Grubner and the bass & baritones from the Met Opera Eastern RegionalIf you want to hear lots of great low male voices, you'll want to attend the upcoming Metropolitan Opera National Council...
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Kevin Thompson makes South American debut as Méphistophélès
Bass-Barihunk Kevin ThompsonIf there is an earthquake in Ecuador tonight, it's probably been caused by the booming bass of Kevin Thompson. He's making his role debut as Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust...
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Introducing Jared Schwartz
Jared SchwartzMeet American bass-barihunk, our latest "reader submission." The Eastman School of Music graduate will be performing "Songs of Travel" with accompanist Mary Dibbern on Saturday, Dec 7th...
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Re-Introducing Nathan Keoughan; Another reader submission
Canadian Barihunk Nathan KeoughanWe love it when our readers send us new barihunks to follow and post for your pleasure. The latest is Canadian Nathan Keoughan, who will be competing in the Canadian...
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Theo Hoffman to perform free recital at Alice Tully Hall
When we first posted about Theo Hoffman, he was preparing for his performance as Count Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze do Figaro at Julliard. We mentioned that he also had an upcoming recital, but we...
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Britten's 100th Birthday Continues in Vancouver; Introducing Aaron Durand
Aaron DurandThe 100th birthday celebration of Benjamin Britten continues with a production of one of his comic masterpieces in Canada. Aaron Durand, who last appeared on the Vancouver Opera stage as...
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Peter Bording goes from barber to dictator
Peter BordingThey're a couple of productions of Rossini's Barber of Seville going on around the world right now, most prominently in San Francisco and Turin. But the production in the Netherlands at De...
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Catch Erwin Schrott in a theater near you
Erwin Schrott as Jean Procida in Les vêpres siciliennesLast month we chose the performance of Verdi's Les vêpres siciliennes at Covent Garden as the production that we'd most like to see during the...
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Movie deals with man's obsession with Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and beautiful...
We always thought that no one could possibly like Mozart's Don Giovanni more than those of us involved with Barihunks. After all, the opera has given us more sexy photos than humanly imaginable, with...
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Another barihunk "exposed" at Nationale Reisopera's "Barber of Seville"; Meet...
We love when a post about a barihunk begets more barihunks, which is what happened when we ran a feature on Peter Bording's run as the title character in Rossini's Barber of Seville at the Nationale...
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Jud Arhur's naked Fafner in Australian Ring Cycle
Jud Arthur as a professional model and as FafnerDirector Neil Armfield's Der Ring des Nibelungen at Opera Australia was quite the buzz even before it opened. Now that the first cycle is wrapped up the...
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Hans Peter Jannsens stars in avant-garde exploration of Wagner
A promo for Tragedy of a Frienship & Hans Peter Jannsens as DraculaWhen we saw the promo and production photos from avant-garde artist Jan Fabre's Tragedy of a friendship at the Lille Opera, we...
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Watch Chris Herbert in Britten tribute
Chris Herbert & Timothy Long on the Martha Stewart weddings siteA few months ago we posted about the upcoming bicentenary tribute to British composer Benjamin Britten. The November 26th concert...
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