Three Baritones concert at Opera Orlando
Brian James Myer, Nathan Stark and Gabriel Preisser (L-R)(Photo: Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel)On August 28th, Opera Orlando's annual "Opera in the Park" will feature a "The Three Baritones" concert...
View ArticleMorgan Pearse wins Cesti Baroque Opera Competition
Morgan PearseBarihunk Morgan Pearse won the 7th Annual International Cesti Voice Competition for Baroque Opera in Innsbruck, Austria. The competition was named after Italian composer Pietro Antonio...
View ArticleIntroducing British Barihunk Dan Shelvey
Daniel Alfred ShelveyLiverpool native Dan Shelvey was nominated by a reader on Facebook to be in our "Barihunks in Bed" calendar and we couldn't agree more. He is currently studying opera course at the...
View ArticleMalachy Frame wins Northern Ireland Opera Voice Competition
Malachy Frame with is Festival of Voice awardBelfast-born barihunk Malachy Frame has won the Northern Ireland Opera’s Festival of Voice competition.Frame is completing a Masters at the Royal Academy of...
View ArticleAndrea Mastroni releases filmed version of Erlkönig
Andrea MastroniBass-barihunk Andrea Mastroni has released a filmed version of Franz Schubert's Erlkönig directed by Nicola Garzetti.Erlkönig, known as Erl-King or Elf-King in English, was written by...
View ArticleHadleigh Adams Takes on Three 20th Century Masters
Hadleigh AdamsBarihunk Hadleigh Adams is returning to Australia, where he was a Gertrude Johnson Scholar at The Opera Studio in 2009. He'll be singing Sam in Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti alongside...
View ArticleGianluca Margheri to make role debut as Mozart's Figaro
Gianluca MargheriÜber-barihunk Gianluca Margheri will be making his role debut as the title character in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro in St. Gallen. He opens on September 17, with additional...
View ArticleBarihunk Quartet in Schwarzenberg's Schubertiade
Michael Nagy and BenjaminAppl(Top row, l-r), Tarez Nazmi, Andrè Schuen (Bottom row l-r)This year's Schubertiade in Schwarzenberg, Austria features some of the leading barihunks in the world, including...
View ArticleIntroducing Québecois barihunk Dominique Côté
Dominique CôtéQuébec barihunk Dominique Côté is new to the site. We were intrigued by him when we learned that in addition to singing he runs in triathlons to stay in shape. In June 2017, he'll...
View ArticleNathan Gunn to kick of New York Pops season
Nathan Gunn (Photo: Joshua Spencer)The New York Pops will kick off its 34th season at Carnegie Hall on October 14th with Nathan Gunn in a celebration of music by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. He...
View ArticleEd Parks reprises Mercutio; Premieres as Steve Jobs
Ed ParksEd Parks, who sang a successful Mercutio in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at the Atlanta Opera last season, will reprise the role halfway across the globe later this month. He'll be joining tenor...
View ArticleBarihunk duo alternating Raimondo at Opera San José
Colin Ramsey (left) and Kian Freitas (right)Bass-barihunk Colin Ramsey, who has been featured regularly on this site, will relinquish the final performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera...
View ArticleIntroducing Barihunk Evan Bravo; Joining Santa Barbara Young Artist Program
Evan BravosBarihunk Evan Bravos was recommended to us by one of our Southern California readers, who pointed out that the Greek-American singer will be performing in two upcoming free concerts.Bravos...
View ArticleBenjamin Appl wins Gramophone Magazine's "Young Artist of the Year" award
Barihunk Benjamin Appl has won Gramophone Magazine's coveted "Young Artist of the Year" award. James Jolly of Gramophone wrote the following in his nomination for Appl's award:For the past few years,...
View ArticleKyle Ketelsen's featured on cover of OPERA
American bass-barihunk Kyle Ketelsen is the cover boy on the October 2016 edition of OPERA magazine.The article points out that Ketelsen has sung all four low-voiced roles in Mozart's Don Giovanni, but...
View ArticleAlessio Arduini returns to Royal Opera House; Così fan tutte will be broadcast
Alessio ArduiniItalian barihunk Alessio Arduini, who made his made his Royal Opera debut in 2013 as Schaunard in Puccini's La bohème, will return to the company from September 22-October 20 as...
View ArticleGünther Groissböck to make his role debut as Wotan at Bayreuth
Günther Groissböck Günther Groissböck, who debuted at Bayreuth in 2011 as Landgrave Hermann in Wagner's Tannhäuser and sang Fasolt in their 2013 Das Rheingold, is coming back for three major roles in...
View ArticleRafael FIngerlos tours with Nederlandse Reisoper
Rafael Fingerlos as Harlekin(photo by Marco Borggreve)Austrian barihunk Rafael Fingerlos is touring as Harlekin with the Nederlandse Reisoper in their production of Richard Strauss’Ariadne auf Naxos....
View ArticleBarihunk sextet in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" touring Italy
Dario Shikhmiri, Rocco Cavalluzzi, Federico Benetti and Paolo Ingrasciotta(l-r)Our heads almost exploded when we saw the cast list for Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Teatro Amilcare...
View ArticleJoseph Lattanzi in live stream of The Copper Queen
Joseph LattanziThe Arizona Opera will be live streaming today's sold out performance of composer Clint Borzoni's The Copper Queen, which won the company's Arizona Sparks competition for new works in a...
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