Clik here to view.
Glimmerglass Festival to present "Silent Night"
Michael HewittBarihunk and fitness guru Michael Hewitt will portray Lt Horstmayer in the Glimmerglass Festival's production of Kevin Puts' Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Silent Night. The cast also...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Joa Helgessen goes mad while suspended from hooks
Joa Helgessen as the Mad KingBarihunk Joa Helgessen just performed "Eight Songs for a Mad King - A Man Hanged" at the Halland Opera & Vocal Festival. The piece is based on Peter Maxwell Davies'...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watch Mariusz Kwiecien in complete Don Giovanni from London
Mariusz Kwiecien as Don Giovanni (Image: Royal Opera House)You can watch barihunks Mariusz Kwiecien and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo in a complete broadcast of Don Giovanni from the Royal Opera House in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Andrew Potter's shirtless Fafner at Pittsburgh Festival Opera
Andrew Potter as Fafner(Images: Pittsburgh Festival Opera)The Pittsburgh Opera Festival is kicked off their English language version of Wagner's Ring Cycle on July 13th with the sexy and shirtless...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Santa Fe Opera's "Doctor Atomic" is first John Adams opera at company
Ryan McKinny and Daniel Okulitch(Photo: Ken Howard, Santa Fe Opera, 2018)The Santa Fe Opera is presenting its first John Adams opera ever, which is surprising considering their historic dedication to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Alternating barihunks in La Favorite at Liceu
Mattia Olivieri as Alphhonse XI (Photo © Bofill)Barihunks Markus Werba and Mattia Olivieri are alternating the role of Alphonse XI in the original French language version of Donizetti's La Favorite at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Celebrating the premiere of Verdi's rarity "I masnadieri"
Roberta Mantegna and Artur Rucinski in I masnadieri in Rome(Photo: Yasuko Kageyama)Few composers wrote more great baritone and bass parts than Giuseppe Verdi. Many of his operas are named for low male...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watch Christopher Maltman in Met's updated Cosi fan tutte
Christopher Maltman as Don Alfonso(Marty Sohl/The Metropolitan Opera)Christopher Maltman will be featured in the upcoming broadcast of Mozart's Così fan tutte from the Metropolitan Opera as part of its...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Edwin Crossley-Mercer as arrogant king in Haydn's Orlando Paladino
Edwin Crossley-Mercer and Heiko Pinkowski (Photo: Wilfried Hösl)Barihunk Edwin Crossley-Mercer is singing the role of the boastful and arrogant King Rodomonte in Haydn’s most popular opera, Orlando...
View ArticleClik here to view.
R.I.P Glen Roven (1958-2018): Composer, Conductor, Arranger, Producer,...
Glen RovenThe Barihunks family lost one of its favorite people in the music industry this week, Glen Roven, a multi-talented composer, conductor, arranger, producer and two-time Emmy Award-winner. He...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kelly Markgraf and Sasha Cooke to reprise "As One"
Kelly Markgraf and Sasha Cooke (Photo: Brooklyn Academy of Music)The real-life married couple of mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and barihunk Kelly Markgraf have made Laura Kaminsky's opera "As One" a bit of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reader Submission: German bass-barihunk Georg Festl
Georg FestlGerman bass-barihunk Georg Festl, who is part of the ensemble at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, was suggested to us by one of our readers.This season he has performed the lead role in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pietro Di Bianco sings Mercadante rarity in Innsbruck
Pietro Di BiancoItalian barihunk Pietro Di Bianco will sing Osmida in Saverio Mercadante's rarely performed "Didone abbandonata" at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik.Encouraged by Rossini, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ENO presents its first-ever production of Britten's "Paul Bunyan"
Paul Bunyan by Rick Meyerowitz and Matthew Durkan(photo: Pablo Strong)The English National Opera (ENO) will mount their first-ever performance of Benjamin Britten’s Paul Bunyan at Wilton’s Music Hall...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watch Erwin Schrott as Offenbach's four villains from DNO
Erwin Schrott as 2 of 4 Offenbach villains(Images: Dutch National Opera)Conductor Carlo Rizzi and German director Tobias Kratzer have created a revised version of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sexy photos of Hadleigh Adams in Quartett; Opening today at West Edge Opera
Heather Buck and Hadleigh Adams(Photo: Cory Weaver)Bass-barihunk Hadleigh Adams is headling this year's West Edge Opera Summer Festival in Luca Francesconi’s Quartett, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marco Vassalli returns to U.S.to reprise acclaimed American debut program
Marco Vassalli's Barihunk photo shoot in FranceGerman barihunk Marco Vassalli will be back in the United States to reprise his stunning U.S. debut with Musica Marin two years ago. In 2016, he premiered...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Joshua Bloom to premiere solo opera for bass; Role debut at Bluebeard
Joshua Bloom (Photo: Kim Hardy)There aren't many solo works for bass, so we were thrilled when we learned that Joshua Bloom would be starring in the world premiere of Richard Ayres'The Garden at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
David Diston posts funny bio for upcoming Winterreise
David DistonWe've been meaning to post about Canadian David Diston for at least a year, but his bio for his upcoming bio for the 24-baritone Winterreise-fest was the best motivation to get this done....
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Brancy in German premiere of Lost Highway
John BrancyAmerican barihunk John Brancy will star as Pete Dayton in the German premiere of Olga Neuwirth and Nobel Prize-winner Elfriede Jelinek's Lost Highway at Oper Frankfurt featuring Ensemble...
View Article