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Brian James Myer to sing Mercutio with Hawaii Opera Theatre
Brian James MyerBarihunk Brian James Myer will take on the role of Mercutio in the Hawaii Opera Theatre's new production of Gounod's Romeo & Juliet. Soprano Amanda Woodbury, who sang the role at...
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Rufus Wainwright's "Hadrian" to premiere with adult warning
Thomas Hampson and David Leigh(costume sketch courtesy of Canadian Opera)Rufus Wainwright's second opera, "Hadrian," will open on October 13th at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. The opera is...
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David Adam Moore stars in West Coast premiere of Soldier Songs
David Adam MooreBarihunk David Adam Moore will reprise the role of the Soldier in David T. Little's "Soldier Songs," which he created at the 2008 premiere at Le Poisson Rouge in New York. The Ford...
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Brandon Cedel in Verdi rarity Il corsaro in Franfurt
Brandon CedelBrandon Cedel will sing the bass role of Giovanni in Oper Frankfurt's concert performances of Verdi's Il corsaro. He'll be joined by an all-star cast that includes Dorothea Röschmann as...
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Mathias Hausmann in provocative Dantons Tod
Mathias Hausmann (center)Photo: Staatstheater am GärtnerplatzThe Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz is presenting Gottfried von Einem's Dantons Tod with barihunk Mathias Hausmann as Georges Danton along...
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Jesse Blumberg featured in Polish Independence Day concert in NY
Jesse BlumbergThe Oratorio Society of New York will celebrate Polish Independence with a November 11th concert featuring barihunk Jesse Blumberg, soprano Susanna Phillips and Polish mezzo-soprano Ewa...
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Steven LaBrie making Tulsa Opera debut as Figaro
Steven LaBrie as Figaro(courtesy Opera Hong Kong)Barihunk Steven LaBrie will make his Tulsa Opera debut as the title character in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” which opens the company’s 2018-2019...
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Ernesto Petti to sing Lord Enrico Ashton in Basel
Ernesto Petti(Photos courtesy of singer and Theater Basel)Italian barihunk Ernesto Petti will take on the role of Lord Enrico Ashton at the Theater Basel beginning on October 19th. The staging will be...
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Iurii Samoilov makes US debut in Detroit
Iurii Samoilov(Photo by Maria Shkoda)Iurii Samoilov made his long overdue American debut on October 13th singing the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit. The...
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Luis Alejandro Orozco stars in Santa Barbara Opera's 25th Anniversary season...
Luis Alejandro Orozco(Photos: C. Stanley & Tim Trumble)Mexican-American barihunk Luis Alejandro Orozco will sing the role of Marcello in Puccini's La bohème, which will launch the 25th anniversary...
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Remembering Dmitri Hvorostovsky on his birthday
Dmitri HvorostovskyDmitri Hvorostovsky, who was broadly viewed as one of the greatest opera baritones of our times, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the summer of 2015 and died at the age of 55 on...
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Davoné Tines to star in new Terence Blanchard opera
Davoné TinesDavóne Tines will star in the world premiere of five-time Grammy winner Terence Blanchard and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” at the Opera Theater of St. Louis this...
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Duncan Rock takes on Don Giovanni Down Under before heading to The Met
Duncan Rock rehearsing with Opera QueenslandBritish/Australian barihunk Duncan Rock will make his principal role debut with Opera Queensland in the title role of Mozar'ts Don Giovanni, which runs...
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Jérôme Varnier and Edwin Crossley-Mercer in updated William Tell
Edwin Crossley-Mercer(Photo: Herwig Prammer)Rossini's opera Guillaume Tell (William Tell) has regrettably become best known for its overture, parts of which became the Lone Ranger theme, but it is also...
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Robert Sims joins Oakland Symphony for Ghost Ship memorial concert
Robert Sims (photo: Christian Steiner)Barihunk Robert Sims will perform the Brahms German Requiem with the Oakland Symphony on November 16th. He will be joined by soprano Patricia Westley under the...
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Gary Griffiths makes Oper Frankfurt debut in double bill of one-act operas
Gary Griffiths (photo from Oedipus Rex, Barbara Aumüller -left)Welsh barihunk Gary Griffiths is making his Oper Frankfurt debut in a double bill of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex,...
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Barihunk duo in Montrèal's Das Rheingold
Ryan McKinny and Soloman HowardOpèra de Montrèal's upcoming performance of Wagner's Das Rheingold will feature the barihunk duo of Ryan McKinny as Wotan and Solomon Howard as Fafner. The cast also...
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Watch Alex Esposito as Assur in Semiramide
Alex Esposito as Assur(Image courtesy of Culturebox)Alex Esposito, who is probably the preeminent interpreter of Assur from Rossini Semiramide in the world today, reprised his successful portrayal at...
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Christian Van Horn only ninth bass to get devilish at The Met
Christian van Horn as Mefistofele(courtesy of the Metroploitan Opera)On November 8, 2018, Christian Van Horn will become just the ninth bass to sing the title role in Boito's Mefistofele at the...
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Barihunk switch for Brahms Requiem
Samuel HasselhornBarihunk Samuel Hasselhorn will be replacing fellow barihunk James Newby for the Brahms Requiem with Marin Alsop and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment this weekend.The first...
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