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Dominic Barberi to represent U.K. at Cardiff Competition
Dominic Barberi28-year-old, German-born, Scottish bass-barihunk Dominic Barberi, who just wrapped up a run as Baron Douphol in Verdi's La traviata at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden opposite Ailyn...
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John Chest simultaneously singing two English language operas in Germany
John Chest as Billy Budd in BerlinAmerican barihunk John Chest, who just finished a successful run as Count Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Philadelphia, is back in his home base of...
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Barihunks performing in quincentenary of Reformation
Marco Vassalli(left)and Malte Roesner(right)Germany will have musical celebrations of Martin Luther's Reformation, which occurred 600 years ago this year. One of our favorites will have its world...
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Simon Keenlyside to kick off Opéra de Paris recital series
Simon KeenlysideSimon Keenlyside will kick of the 2017/2018 Opéra de Paris recital series this year along with acompanist Malcolm Martineau. The British barihunk will perform music by Sibelius,...
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Barihunk Jérôme Varnier makes role debut as Méphistophélès
Jérôme VarnierBarihunk Jérôme Varnier made his role debut as Méphistophélès tonight in Gounod's Faust at Opéra Grand Avignon. There will be one additional performance on June 11th.The cast in this new...
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Barihunk trio in NY premiere of operatic Angels in America
Wayne Tigges, Aaron Blake, Andrew Garland and Michael Weyandt(l-r)The new New York City Opera closes its season with the New York Premiere of Péter Eötvös's Angels in America, distilling the two-night,...
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Barihunk quartet and hunkentenor featured in Grange Park's Carmen
A quartet of barihunks are appearing in the Grange Park Festival's production of Carmen, which is currently running through July 8th. Two of them, Grigory Soloviov and Toby Girling, have appeared on...
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Hunky trio to reprise Three Way at Brooklyn Academy of Music
Wes Mason(photo: Jason Lee Denton)Barihunks Wes Mason, Matt Treviño and hunkentenor Samuel Levine will reprise their performances of Robert Paterson's new opera Three Way with the American Opera...
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Bryn Terfel replaces Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Tanglewood
Dmitri HvorostovskyThe Tanglewood Festival press office sent out the following notice today:"Bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel will replace baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's...
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Paull-Anthony Keightley named finalist at Australian Singing Competition
Paull-Anthony KeightleyBarihunk Paull-Anthony Keightley has been named one of five finalists at the 2017 IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition. He'll be joined by Damian Arnold, Daniel Carison,...
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Barihunks founder interviewed on German blog
Zachary Gordin on the cover of Queer.deThe founder of Barihunks was interviewed by Kevin Clarke for the gay German blog Queer.de. You can read the entire interview in German HERE or read the English...
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Barihunk Zachary Gordin in Festival Opera double-bill
Zachary Gordin sporting his Barihunk tee shirt at the gymBarihunk calendar model Zachary Gordin is replacing fellow barihunk Hadleigh Adams in the Festival Opera's double-bill on Leoncavallo's...
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Atilla and Mefistofele to get San Francisco airings; Some Sam Ramey history
Samuel Ramey and Ildar AbdrazakovLovers of low voices in the San Francisco Bay Are area in for a real treat this summer, as their local PBS station KQED has announced that both Verdi's Attila and...
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Remembering Cardiff's 1989 epic "Battle of the Baritones"
Dmitri Hvorostovsky at Cardiff in 1989As we wrap up the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, we're recalling the most famous show down of all, which was the 1989 "Battle of the Baritones"...
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Introducing barihunk Roman Ruckhofer
Roman Ruckhofer in Silbersee (left)22-year-old Austrian barihunk Roman Ruckhofer was suggested to us after he performed in Kurt Weill's Silbersee at the Theater im Palais at the University of Music and...
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Barihunks rotating Don Giovanni in Munich
Mathias Hausmann (left) and Günter Papendell (right)Barihunks Günter Papendell and Mathias Hausmann are rotating the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Gärtnerplatztheater in Munich, Germany...
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Malte Roesner to perform lost Soler and Süßmayr songs
Dashe Cellars in Oakland and German bass Malte RoesnerMalte Roesner, who is making his U.S. stage debut with West Edge Opera in Vicente Martín y Soler's The Chastity Tree (see our post), will also be...
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Craig Verm heads cast of barihunks as "Billy Budd" in Des Moines
Craig Verm as Billy Budd (photo courtesy of Des Moines Metro Opera)American barihunk Craig Verm is returning to the role of Billy Budd at the Des Moines Metro Opera on July 1, 9, 11 and 14. Verm has...
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Quirijn de Lang featured in one-act operas with Opera North
Wallis Giunta and Quirijn de Lang in Trouble in TahitiThe U.K.'s Opera North is presenting a new series dubbed "Little Greats," which are six operas that run about an hour each and are presented as a...
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky cancels all Vienna performances
Dmitri Hvorostovsky(Photo: Pavel Antonov)According to the Associated Press, the Vienna State Opera says Siberian barihunk Dmitri Hvorostovsky has canceled all performances for the coming season due to...
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