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Sasha Cooke and Kelly Markgraf reprise transgender opera As One
Sasha Cooke and Kelly Markgraf rehearsing As OneThe real life husband and wife team of Kelly Markgraf and Sasha Cooke will reprise their roles of "Hannah before" and "Hannah after" in Laura Kaminsky's...
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Mathias Hausmann in controversial Tannhäuser in Leipzig
Mathias Hausmann in TannhäuserMathias Hausmann will be featured as Wolfram in Oper Leipzig's Tannhäuser, which opens on March 17 and runs through May 27. The remainder of the cast includes Elisabet...
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Erwin Schrott sings Scarpia tonight for only second time
Erwin Schrott as Scarpia in BerlinBass-barihunk Erwin Schrott waited until February of last year before he felt comfortable enough to debut the role of the evil police chief Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca....
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Christopher Bolduc in Czech premiere of 4-act Billy Budd
Christopher Bolduc as Billy Budd in PragueBlond barihunk Christopher Bolduc, who likes like he was born to sing the role of the handsome young sailor Billy Budd, will perform the role in the Czech...
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Philippe Sly to perform Schubert songs with guitar
Philippe Sly as Zebul (left)Canadian barihunk Phillipe Sly will kick off the second half of Tucson Guitar Society's International Artist Concert Series on February 3rd. He'll be joined by his frequent...
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Quirijn de Lang in updated and abridged Hamlet
Quirijn de Lang as HamletOPERA2DAY in Den Haag in the Netherlands will present barihunk Quirijn de Lang as the title character in Ambroise Thomas'Hamlet. The innovative company has reduced the 3 1/2...
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Watch Nicolas Courjal's role debut live as four villains in Tales of Hoffmann
Nicolas Courjal as the Four Villains(photos by Alain Hanel)On January 22nd, the internet opera site Mezzo.tv will feature bass-barihunk Nicolas Courjal making his role debut as the four villains-...
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Seth Carico to debut title role in Dead Man Walking
Seth CaricoAdd Seth Carico to the impressive list of barihunks who have sung Joseph de Rocher in Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking. The Berlin-based, Tennessee native will take on the role in five...
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Andrew Garland featured in world premiere of Holocaust opera
Andrew GarlandAmerican barihunk Andrew Garland will sing Abe in the world premiere of Gerald Cohen and Deborah Brevoort's opera Steal a Pencil for Me with Opera Colorado, which opens on January 25th...
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Paul La Rosa in tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires
Paul La Rosa rehearsing Maria de Buenos Aires in San DiegoBarihunk Paul La Rosa will taking on the role of El Payador (the gaucho minstrel) in Astor Piazzolla's tango infused opera Maria de Buenos...
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Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart!
What could we possibly say about Mozart that either hasn't been said or you don't know already? Born on January 27, 1756, he was a child prodigy, who wrote his first symphony when he was eight years...
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Uprorious "The Pearls of Cleopatra" returns to Berlin
Dominik Köninger and Dagmar ManzelDirector Barrie Kosky's hilarious and highly entertaing The Pearls of Cleopatra(Die Perlen der Cleopatra) by Oscar Straus is back at the Komische Oper in Berlin. The...
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BariToned part of Valentine's Day double-header
BariTonedBariToned, the popular trio of big, brawny, beautiful men, which includes Joe Hager, Edward Miskie and Caleb Albert, will be part of a double-header, post-Valentine's Day concert at The Green...
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Mike Nyby to sing first Scarpia with Opera Ithaca
Mike NybyCanadian Mike Nyby will be making his role debut as the evil police chief Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca with Opera Ithaca. Nyby will be replacing fellow barihunk Zachary James, who had to...
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Barihunk Alex Esposito featured in two Rossini anniversaries
Alex EspositoItalian barihunk Alex Esposito will be featured in two Rossini anniversaries within 30 days of each other.The first will be a (slightly premature) celebration of the 150th anniversary of...
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Baritones dominate first ever Glyndebourne Opera Cup
Clockwise top left: Dmytro Kalmuchyn, Cody Quattlebaum, Denis Milo and Hubert ZapiórBaritones landed seven of the 24 slots for the inaugural Glyndebourne Opera Cup on March 22. The field will be...
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Happy Birthday, John Adams!
Composer John AdamsJohn Adams is one of the best known and most often performed of America's composers. Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on February 15, 1947. During his youth, growing up in...
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Three barihunks to join forces at Carnegie Hall
Jarrett Ott, Tobias Greenhalgh and Steven LaBrie. Three of the greatest young singers and hottest barihunks singing today will be performing in the "Three Baritones" concert together at Carnegie Hall...
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Bass-Barihunk Ildar Abdrazakov in Semiramide broadcasts
Ildar Abdrazakov and Ryan Speedo Green in SemiramideBass-BarihunkIldar Abdrazakov will be performing King Assur in Rossini’s Semiramide, which is presented being presented at the Met for the first...
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Barihunks Lawson Anderson and Benjamin Taylor win George London top honors
Benjamin Taylor and Lawson AndersonBarihunks Lawson Anderson and Benjamin Taylor shared top honors at the 2018 George London Foundation Awards Competition for young American and Canadian opera singers....
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