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Dmitri Hvorostovsky cancels Enescu Festival recital
Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Iago at the Vienna State Opera in 2013Barihunk Dmitri Hvorostovsky has pulled out of his September 22 recital at the Georges Enesco Festival "due to medical problems." The...
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Google honors baritone Eduard Khil with doodle
Eduard Khil and his Google doodleGoogle paid Russian baritone Eduard Khil the ultimate honor with creating a doodle for him on September 4th, which would have been his birthday. Khil was born in 1934...
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Battle of the Baritones at Wigmore/Kohn Competition?
John Brancy, Josh Quinn and Julien van MellaertsThree of the most talented young baritones in opera have made it to the final round of the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition,...
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Baritones Sweep Wigmore/Kohn Song Competition
The "Battle of the Baritones" at the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International Song Competition ended up with baritones taking all three of the top prizes. It repeats the baritone trifecta of the last...
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Iowa Public Television to broadcast "Billy Budd" with Craig Verm
Craig Verm as Billy Budd(photos: Des Moines Metro Opera)On September 29th, Iowa Public Television will broadcast the world premiere of the newly orchestrated version of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd....
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Q&A with Barihunk and Fitness Instructor Zacharias Niedzwiecki
Zacharias NiedzwieckiChicago-based barihunk Zacharias Niedzwiecki is new to our site and came to our attention earlier this year when he performed in Purcell's The Fairy Queen at Long Beach Opera. He...
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Anthony Reed takes his act to San Francisco nightclub
Bass-barihunk Anthony Reed(Photo: Andrew Bogard)The San Francisco Opera continues its popular Opera Pop-Up series with bass-barihunk Anthony Reed and director Aria Umezawa, who are teaming up for...
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Crossing with Rod Gilfry makes NY debut at BAM
Rod Gilfry as Walt Whitman in CrossingMatthew Aucoin's opera Crossing is making its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from October 3-8. The ageless barihunk Rod Gilfry returns in the...
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Richard Rittelmann & Julie Adams team up for "Stop Bullying" fundraiser
Richard Rittelmann & Julie AdamsBarihunk Richard Rittelmann and rising soprano star Julie Adams are teaming up for a campaign fundraiser to "Stop Bullying in Schools" sponsored by the Golden Gate...
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Buon Compleanno, Ettore Bastianini
Ettore BastianiniIt is no secret that one of our favorite barihunks of all-time is Ettore Bastianini. We feature him whenever we have an excuse, but what's better than his birthday. Like the German...
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Michael Adams to make Utah Opera debut as Marcello
Baritone Michael AdamsAmerican barihunk Michael Adams will be making his debut with the Utah Opera as Marcello in Puccini's La bohème, a role he debuted in 2016 at the Grand Théâtre de Genève. He was...
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Edward Nelson featured in San Francisco Symphony's Oktoberfest
Barihunk Edward Nelson looking sexy onstage and offstageBarihunk Edward Nelson is heading up an all-star cast of singers for an Oktoberfest celebration at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall on...
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Barihunks calendar and photo book now on sale!
Coverboy Jason Duika Barihunks has released its 2018 calendar, which includes nineteen of opera's hottest singers, hailing from seven countries. Baritones and basses include Alexander Elliot, Brad...
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Jarrett Porter and Brent Michael Smith featured in Hercules vs Vampires
Jarrett Porter and Brent Michael Smith (taken at Glimmerglass for Barihunks)The Arizona Opera will present the campy mixed media event Hercules vs Vampires this month in time for Halloween. The...
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Trio of Barihunks returns for BariToned (one night only!)
Joe Hager, Edward Miskie and Brian KrinskyBarihunks' 2017 Calendar model Edward Miskie is back with his show "BariToned: I Hate Men," which sold out back in May. The show features three 6'4" tall...
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John Chest to kick off Oratorio Society of New York's new season
John Chest(left, as Guglielmo with the Merola Opera)Barihunk John Chest, who represented the United States at this year's BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, will join soprano Susanna Phillips...
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Barihunk trio in Hawaii Opera Theatre's "Carmen"
Darren Stokes, Brian James Myer and Matt TreviñoDarren Stokes will be singing the role of Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen at the Hawaii Opera Theatre, joined by fellow barihunks Matthew Treviño as Zuniga...
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Wayne Tigges singing title role in The Flying Dutchman in Atlanta
Wayne Tigges as the DutchmanWayne Tigges, who just scored a huge triumph as Ray Cohn in New York City Opera's production of Péter Eötvös's Angels in America, will be taking on a completely different...
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First UK performance of Rameau's Dardanus features barihunk trio
Timothy Nelson, Grant Doyle and Frederick LongThe English Touring Opera will present the first U.K. performance of the 1744 version of Rameau's Dardanus. Considered one of the composer's best operas,...
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Thomas Meglioranza to perform Schubert's Winterreise
Reiko Uchida and Thomas Meglioranza (photo: Christopher Greenleaf)American barihunk Thomas Meglioranza will join pianist Reiko Uchida for a performance of Schubert's Winterreise on Sunday, October 7th...
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