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PROTOTYPE Festival to present Breaking the Waves
John Moore in Opera Philadelphia's Breaking the WavesThe PROTOTYPE Festival, along with Beth Morrison Projects will present Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek's Breaking the Waves on January 6, 7, and 9 at...
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Two barihunks making role debuts as Hamlet
Edward Nelson (left) and Régis Mengus(right)Barihunks Régis Mengus and Edward Nelson will be making their role debuts as Hamlet on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean in 2017.Mengus will perform the...
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Chris Herbert to reprise WINTERIZE at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Chris HerbertBarihunk Christopher Dylan Herbert will reprise his unique performance of his participatory version of Franz Schubert’s 1828 song cycle Winterreise dubbed Winterize at the Brooklyn Botanic...
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Michael Kelly and Shea Owens in NY premiere of Prince of Players
Michael Barihunks Michael Kelly and Shea Owens will alternate the role of the androgynous Kynaston in the New York debut of Carlisle Floyd's Prince of Players at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College....
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Michael Todd Simpson replaces Eric Owens in ‘L’Amour de Loin’ at Met
Michael Todd SimpsonBarihunk Michael Todd Simpson stepped in as Jaufré Rudel for Eric Owens on Christmas Eve in Kaija Saariaho’scritically acclaimed L’Amour de Loin at The Met. Eric Owens returns to...
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Simon Keenlyside rings in the New Year with Broadway musicals
Simon Keenlyside as Macbeth and HamletBritish barihunk Simon Keenlyside will spend New Year's Eve at the Royal Opera House Muscat in Oman performing music from classic Broadway musicals. the concert...
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(Properly) Introducing Bass-Barihunk Marko Mimica
Marko Mimica(photos by Simon Pauly & Foto Piccinni)Our post about Simon Keenlyside's New Year's Eve concert at the Royal Opera House of Muscat prompted a reader to remind us that we've never...
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Barihunk David Castillo fuses music and food in Seven Deadly Sins
Barihunk David Castillo and his Chefs(photo by Matthew & Becky Noel)Barihunk David Castillo is taking a night off from singing to become the Creative Director for "The Seven Deadly Sins" at the St....
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BARIHUNKS BEST OF 2016
Thank you again to our readers, who keep this site alive and thriving. Your purchases of our calendars and tee shirts goes to supporting young artists and opera projects. BEST NEW OPERA (tie): Missy...
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Dominik Köninger's riveting Orpheus viewable online
Dominik KöningerWe've been following German barihunk Dominik Köninger at the Komische Opera ever since he joined their esnsemble after winning the 2011 Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song...
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CAST CHANGE: Riccardo Fassi replaces Robert Gleadow as Don Giovanni
Riccardo FassiBarihunk Riccardo Fassi will replace Robert Gleadow in the upcoming performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Theater Basel. This will complete a role trifecta for the singer, as he...
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Barihunks Andrew Garland and Craig Irvin in Bolcom world premiere
Craig Irvin and Andrew GarlandMinnesota Opera is presenting the world premiere of William Bolcom's Dinner at Eight as part of their New Works Initiative. The initiative was launched in 2008 with a goal...
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Schmopera interviews Barihunks
Anthony Reed, Malte Roesner and Marco VassalliJenna Douglas, founder of the site Schmopera, which takes an insider look at the industry and its artists, interviewed Jack Michaels from our Barihunks...
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Introducing Welsh bass-barihunk (and harpist) John Ieuan Jones
John Ieuan Jones(photos by Sarah Foubert)John Ieuan Jones, who hails Rhos-on-Sea in North Wales, is new to our site and was suggested by a colleague at the Royal Northern College of Music, where the...
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Barihunks Calendar presented to Eva-Maria Westbroek on Dutch TV
Eva-Marie Westbroek & Karin Strobos (left); Tenor Frank van Aken and Thomas OliemansThe 2017 Barihunks in Bed calendar made quite a splash on Dutch TV's Podium Witteman broadcast, which presents...
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Mark Diamond to perform Borzoni world premiere
Mark DiamondAmerican barihunk Mark Diamond will join Musica Marin for the world premiere of Clint Borzoni's new arrangement of the aria, "Two Nooses" from his opera "When Adonis Calls” for baritone,...
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John Viscardi to star in Elvis Costello's The Juliet Letters
John ViscardiAmerican barihunk John Viscardi, who recently won the Tosti International Vocal Competition, will star in Elvis Costello’s The Juliet Letters as part of Lyric Opera of Kansas City’s...
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America's hottest barihunks to sing in "Counter-Inaugural Concert"
David Adam Moore, Kyle Ketelsen, Nathan Gunn, Sidney Outlaw, Andrew Garland & Michael Kelly (clockwise)Those of you who follow Barihunks know that we steer clear of politics and stick to opera....
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Reader submission: Bass-barihunk Christopher Besch
Christopher BeschA reader alerted us to bass-barihunk Christopher Besch, who will be appearing as Nourabad in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) with Opera in the Heights from February...
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Watch Johan Reuter as The Flying Dutchman
Johan Reuter as the Flying Dutchman and buffing up at the gymYou can currently watch barihunk (bear-a-hunk) Johan Reuter in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman from the Finnish National Opera on the...
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