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Happy Birthday, Lee Hoiby!!!
Composer Lee Hoiby and Barihunk Benjamin CurtisLee Hoiby was born in Madison, Wisconsin on February 17, 1926 and died on March 28, 2011. He was one of America's most prominent composers of works for...
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Question & Answer with Theo Hoffman
Theo Hoffman1. Most singers dream of moving to New York to study and have careers, but you grew up in Manhattan. Tell us a little about your upbringing. What music did you listen to growing up. As...
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Matt Worth to star in premiere of The Manchurian Candidate
Matt Worth to star in The Manchurian CandidateMatt Worth, who is currently performing Starbuck in Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick with the Washington National Opera, will star in the world premiere of Kevin...
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Three Barihunks to perform in "Vavrek and Vrebalov"
Jonathan Estabrooks, Sidney Outlaw and Zachary JamesBarihunks seem to be showing up in bunches these days and we're loving it. Our recent post about the Seattle Opera's The Consul actually featured...
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Seattle Opera's "Four Barihunks" Model Tee Shirts
Sarah Larsen with Michael Todd Simpson, Steven LaBrie, Joseph Lattanzi, and Colin Ramsey (Photo by Elise Bakketun) We recently posted about the barihunk foursome performing in Menotti's The Consul at...
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Introducing Pietro di Bianco: Leporello in Paris
Pietro Di BiancoWe're not sure how Italian bass-barihunk Pietro di Bianco escaped our eagle eyes or slipped by our readers in Europe, but we're thrilled to add him to our site. With his runway model...
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Hanno Müller-Brachmann's West Coast Debut & Only US Performance in 2014
Hanno Müller-Brachmann in Cosi fan tutte in BerlinAmerican fans of the amazing gifted German barihunk Hanno Müller-Brachmann will have one chance to see him in 2014, when he makes his West Coast debut...
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Craig Verm in Gotham Opera double-bill at Metropolitan Museum
Craig Verm in Il combattimento (Photo by Richard Termine) and from the Barihunks calendar
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Question & Answer with Rodney Earl Clarke
Rodney Earl ClarkeTELL US ABOUT YOUR UPBRINGING IN ENGLAND AND YOUR EARLY MUSIC INFLUENCES.Being the middle child of five children with three brothers and one sister, I very quickly got used to being...
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Reader Submission: Alfonso Mujica
Alfonso MujicaA reader submitted Uruguayan barihunk Alfonso Mujica to the site after finding a video of him singing Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen on YouTube. We knew that there had to be...
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Reader Submission: Saïd Pressley
Saïd PressleyA reader spotted New Yorker Saïd Pressley as one of the semi-finalists in the 26th annual Dallas Opera Guild Vocal Competition and remembered him as the very attractive winner of the Amato...
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Nicolas Courjal to appear in French rarity Herculaneum
Nicolas CourjalFrench bass-barihunk Nicolas Courjal will appear in Félicien David's operatic rarity Herculaneum on Saturday, March 8th with the Brussels Philharmonic. Courjal will sing the roles of...
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Simon Keenlyside: Opera Now coverboy
British barihunk Simon Keenlyside is like that bottle of fine wine that just keeps getting better with age. He has been seamlessly transitioning from a formidable Mozart singer into a world-class...
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Renamed Dutch National Opera features sexy ads, sexy singers
Dutch National OperaWe'd be lying if we didn't admit that the bare butt in the ad for the Dutch National Opera (formerly De Nederlandse Opera) caught our attention. Curiosity got the best of us and we...
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Reader Submission: Martijn Cornet
Martijn CornetDutch barihunk Martijn Cornet will be performing the Count in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Aalto Theatre in Essen, Germany opening on March 16th. He was suggested by a reader after...
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Barihunk miners in Holland Park "La fanciulla del West"
Peter BrathwaiteDespite having 10 baritone or bass roles, Puccini's La fanciulla del West has made relatively few appearances on Barihunks. Perhaps it's because Puccini operas like La bohème are...
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Lucky Vixen chased by shirtless Lauri Vasar
Lauri Vasar in Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen (Photo: Monika Rittershaus)Whenever we post about Estonian barihunk Lauri Vasar he seems to be either shirtless or pantless. We've featured him as...
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Dan Kempson in Milwaukee's Hydrogen Jukebox
Dan Kempson in Hydrogen JukeboxOn Friday March 14th, the Skylight Music Theater in Milwaukee will present Hydrogen Jukebox, Philip Glass' opera set to the poetry of counter-culture poet Allen Ginsberg....
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Craig Verm to sing "CIVIL warS" at Minimalist Jukebox
Craig VermBarihunk Craig Verm will be appearing in Philip Glass'CIVIL warS at the Minimalist Jukebox series in Los Angeles, which was inspired by Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs and commissioned...
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READER SUBMISSION: Brett Carter
Brett Carter in Rape of Lucretia (left) and L'heure espagnole (right)Our latest Reader Submission is Australian Barihunk Brett Carter who is currently starring as Mercurio in Cavalli's Calisto at the...
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