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Hey, New Yorkers: Win two tickets to Met Donizetti screenings at BAM
We're giving away 10 sets of tickets to our New York City-area readers. The winner will send us either A) A singer that we haven't featured on the site that is worthy of Barihunk status, or B) A top...
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Barihunks in critically-acclaimed La fanciulla del West
Peter Brathwaite (far left) and Nick Garrett (right) with Susannah GlanvilleBack in March we posted about the production of Puccini's La fanciulla del West at Opera Holland Park featuring two barihunks...
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"Hey, S--T--E--L--L--A ! ! !...A Streetcar runs through Kentucky"
Wes Mason(photo: Michael Cinquino)Kentucky is playing a major role in the two upcoming performances of André Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire. We realized the popularity of the piece when we posted...
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Barihunks in La Fenice's "Rake's Progress"
Michael LeibengutThe upcoming performances of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at Teatro La Fenice will feature barihunks Alex Esposito as Nick Shadow and Michael Leibundgut as Father Truelove. The...
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Martin Achrainer awarded first "Richard Tauber Medal"
Martin Achrainer receiving the first Richard Tauber AwardThe Friends of the Linz State Theatre has awarded the first "Richard Tauber Medal" to barihunk Martin Achrainer. Achrainer has been a regular...
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Soloman Howard in televised Marian Anderson tribute
Marian Anderson & Soloman HowardBass-barihunk Soloman Howardwill join soprano Alyson Cambridge in a televised tribute to the trail-breaking singer Marian Anderson tonight on Centric (a BET...
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Schrott seeks tenor soul via Twitter
Erwin Schrott tweets to Charles CastronovoThere are few opera singers who we enjoy more on social media than Erwin Schrott. His posts on Facebook, Twitter and his blog are a great way to follow his...
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Reader Submission: Yu Di
Yu DiOur latest reader submission comes from Paris, where Chinese barihunk Yu Di is competing in the Paris Opera Awards.Born in 1981 in Zi Gong, China, he received his diploma from the Academy of Music...
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Ola Eliasson to reprise sexy Don Giovanni
Ola Eliasson as Don GiovanniOla Eliasson will reprise his sexy and critically-acclaimed performance in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Kungliga Operan (Royal Opera House) in Stockhölm,...
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Met cancels Live in HD transmission of Death of Klinghoffer
Paulo Szot and Ryan Speedo GreenAfter an outpouring of concern that its plans to transmit John Adams’s opera The Death of Klinghoffer might be used to fan global anti-Semitism, the Metropolitan Opera...
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Henning von Schulman takes 2nd Place at Stenhammar Competition
Henning von SchulmanBaritones continued their streak of taking top prizes at international vocal competition, as Henning von Schulman, Alexander Sukhanov and Kyubong Lee took three of the seven prizes...
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Reader Submission: Andrew Wannigman
Our latest Reader Submission is Andrew Wannigman, who is performing Maximilian in Skylark Opera's production of Bernstein's Candide. There are two performances left on June 20th and 22nd and tickets...
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Bevy of Barihunks at Wolf Trap's summer festival
Norman Garrett(left), Michael Adams(center) and Harry Greenleaf (right)Now in it's 43rd year, the Wolf Trap Filene Young Artist program has featured some of the greatest singers in opera while in the...
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"This American Life" produces opera double-bill
Carin & Rod Gilfry (left)and Adrian Rosas(far right)NPR's popular show "This American Life," featuring Ira Glass, has put together one of their most ambitious projects ever, a production of two...
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Soloman Howard to headline gala
Soloman HowardBarihunk Soloman Howard, who we recently featured in a post about the Marian Anderson tribute, will be the featured artist at the "Phantom of the Opera" Gala of the Coalition for African...
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Barihunks in free broadcast of William Tell
Goran Jurić (left)and Günther Groissböck(right)The Bavarian State Opera continues its popular free live streaming of opera this Saturday, June 28th at 6 PM CET/Noon EST/9 AM PST with their new...
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Giorgio Caoduro making role debut as Rigoletto
Giorgio Caoduro and Emma MatthewsIt's been a rough couple of weeks for Opera Australia with the entire music world focused on the Tamar Iveri scandal. Hopefully, that episode is in the dustbin of...
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Richard Rittelmanm mixes sexy and scary as Punch
Richard Rittelmann(left photo © Armin Bardel)as Punch and out of makeup(right) Barihunk Richard Rittelmann just took on the role of Punch opposite the Judy of Manuela Leonhartsberger in Harrison...
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Dead Man Walking opens in Des Moines; More productions ahead
David Adam Moore in Dead Man WalkingDavid Adam Moore in Dead Man WalkingJake Heggie's masterpiece, Dead Man Walking, has quickly entered the standard repertory since its San Francisco premiere in 2000....
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Barihunks team up for open air concert
Dmitri Hvorostovsky: One of the inspirations for BarihunksBarihunk Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who was one of the original inspirations for creating this site seven years ago, seems to just get sexier with...
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