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Introducing British Barihunk David Jones
Barihunk David JonesBritish barihunk David Jones in new to us and came to our attention via Twitter. He will be performing "Unknowing" at Leys Recital Hall at Cambridge on October 17th with Teatime...
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Brent Michael Smith part of Michigan Opera Theatre's first training program
Brent Michael SmithBass-barihunk Brent Michael Smith will be part of the inaugural group of singers at the newly formed Michigan Opera Theatre Studio. He'll be singing Colline in Puccini's La bohème at...
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Tobias Greenhalgh performing staged of Schubert's Winterreise
American barihunk Tobias Greenhalgh, who joined the ensemble the Young Ensembleof theTheater an der Wien last year, will be performing in the premiere of a newly staged version of Schubert's...
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Donovan Singletary's sexy and devilish Mefistofele
Donovan SingletaryBarihunk Donovan Singletary is opening up in Boito's Mefistofele tonight with the Knoxville Opera, which will mark the first professional performance of the opera in Tennessee. There...
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Benjamin Appl on tour with arias and songs
Benjamin ApplGerman barihunk Benjamin Appl will be on tour from November 15-23 accompanied by pianist Gary Matthewman. The tour will take him to Abbeystrewry Church in Skibbereen, Station House Theatre...
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Patrick Egersborg to kick off Oslo Opera Festival
Patrick EgersborgPatrick Egersborg, who appears twice in our new Barihunks Calendar, will be kicking off the Oslo Opera Festival 10 year anniversary celebration on October 10th. He'll be joined by...
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Barihunk trio in Paris Opera's Barber of Seville
Alessio ArduiniLast month we posted about the Opéra national de Paris' barihunk quartet in Mozart's Don Giovanni, which featured Artur Ruciñski in the title role, Alessio Arduini as Leporello, Fernando...
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Matthew Morris in World Premiere Songs; Part of Barihunk Quartet in Don Giovanni
Matthew MorrisMatthew Morris will be joining the Brooklyn New Music Collective for for an evening of song cycles, most of them performed for the first time ever. The concert will feature world...
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Bradley Travis wins Leonard Ingrams Foundation Award
Bradley Travis as Mozart's Figaro (right) at the Royal College of MusicBritish bass-barihunk Bradley Travis is one of two winners of the 8th Annual Leonard Ingrams Foundation Award, along with soprano...
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David McFerrin in Philip Glass rarity in Boston
David McFerrinBarihunk David McFerrin will play The Officer in Boston Lyric Opera's performance of Philip Glass’ In the Penal Colony at the Cyclorama at Boston Center for the Arts from November 11-15,...
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Live Stream of Dead Man Walking from Indiana University
Eric Smedsrud and Angela Yoon (left) in The Last Savage at IU; Reuben Walker (right) in Dead Man WallkingThe Indiana University Opera Theater opened Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking last night in a...
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Luca Pisaroni & Mariusz Kwiecien to appear together in benefit concert
Luca Pisaroni & Mariusz KwiecienTwo of the most acclaimed barihunks in opera will be headlining a benefit concert for Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS on Saturday, February 27, 2016...
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Keith Phares' sexy Zurga in Seattle
Keith Phares in Seattle Opera’s Pearl Fishers(Photos © Elise Bakketun)Barihunk Keith Phares is alternating the role of Zurga with Brett Polegato in the Seattle Opera's current production of Bizet's The...
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Mirco Palazzi singing Assur in Marseilles and Bordeaux
Mirco PalazziItalian barihunk Mirco Palazzi is reprising the role of Assur in Rossini's Semiramide with Opéra de Marseille through October 27th with Jessica Pratt in the title role. He'll take up the...
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Vladimir Putin bestows Order of Alexander Nevsky on Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Dmitri HvorostovskyRussian President Vladimir Putin has bestowed the Order of Alexander Nevsky on über-barihunk Dmitri Hvorostovsky. The award is given for exceptional artistry over a period of 20...
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Jim Wright to sing new ghost story opera
Jim Wright with Dmitri Hvorostovsky (left); in rehearsal for Alice Ryley(right)Sherrill Milnes' VOICE Programs is presenting the one-act opera Alice Ryley based on the famous Savannah, Georgia ghost of...
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Barihunk duo in Sarasota Opera's La bohème
Craig Irvin & Colin RamseyCraig Irvin and Colin Ramsey will portray Marcello and Colline respectively in Sarasota Opera's upcoming run of Puccini's La bohème. The production will run from October...
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Updated Cosi's in Florence and Wiesbaden (and shirtless men!)
Omar Montanari, Juan Francisco Gatell and Simone Alberghini Così fan tutte at Opera di FirenzeWe introduced Italian barihunk Omar Montanari back in 2011. He specializes in comic roles, such as Dandini...
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Matthew Worth to star in Southeast premiere of Soldier Songs
David Adam Moore in Soldier SongsMatthew Worth will take on David T. Little's Soldier Songs in a new production at the Atlanta Opera, which has previously been performed by fellow barihunks David Adam...
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Anatoli Sivko wins Neue Stimmen competition
Anatoli SivkoWe haven't posted about bass-barihunk Anatoli Sivko since the BARITONE BLACKOUT at the OPERALIA competition in Los Angeles in 2014.For those of you who have forgotten, that's when 11 of...
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