Pearl Fishers Contest

Few operas have provided this site with more material than George Bizet's "Pearl Fishers." Some of our hottest barihunks have appeared in shirtless photos from this French gem, including Nathan Gunn, David Adam Moore and Lucas Meacham.

We know that these guys look good as Zurga, but we want to know who you like best vocally. We've given you six clips with famous barihunks as Zurga to choose from. Use the poll in the right column to vote.


Simon Keenlyside & Matthew Polenzani

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Dmitri Hvorostovsky & Paul Groves

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Thomas Hampson & Marcelo Alvarez

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Ludovic Tézier & Ramon Vargas

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Nathan Gunn & William Burden

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Mariusz Kwiecien & Matthew Polenzani

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Press Covers Liam Bonner's Met Debut

[Photo from HGO Studio]


Barihunk Liam Bonner featured in his hometown newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Read the article HERE.

Here is Liam Bonner singing Yeletsky's aria from Tchaikovsky's "Pique Dame."



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Luca Dall'Amico: A shirtless Mustafa

One doesn't think of Mustafa in Rossini's "L'Italiana in algeri" as a barihunk role. It's usually sung by a bariChunk well into his career and more known for his character acting than his abs and pecs. But when Italian barihunk Luca Dall'Amico is cast in the role one can't blame the director for asking him to sing the role shirtless. The only complication might be that Isabella might decide to stay with Mustafa rather than boarding the ship back home.

And who would blame her?

32-year old Luca Dall’Amico was born in Vicenza, Italy and made his operatic début in 2003 at the Verona Arena. His career has been primarily centered in Spain in Italy. He can next be seen on March 10 in Verona perfoming in Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette."

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Barihunks Showing Some Skin

At Barihunks we celebrate the beautiful men who grace our operatic stages. There is nothing sexier than Erwin Schrott or Mariusz Kwiecien ripping his shirt off in "Don Giovanni." Or who can blame Carmen for dumping Don Jose when Kyle Ketelsen struts out on the state as Escamillo. There are few things on the stage hotter than Matthew Worth in "Rape of Lucretia," Simon Keenlyside or Nathan Gunn in Billy Budd, or Daniel Okulitch baring everything in "The Fly." So we decided to showcase a bunch of the hottest barihunks around in one post.

One thing that we've noticed about our readers is that they like to see a little skin once in awhile. So here are some of the dreamiest barihunks showing off their goods onstage and offstage.

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TOM CORBEIL IN Haydn’s "L’isola disabitata AND LAURENT ALVARO IN "The Fly"

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TOM FORDE, SIMON KEENLYSIDE & MICHAEL RICE

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JONATHAN KIMPLE & PAUL LAROSA

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CALE OLSON ON THE L/R & JOHN CHEST (CENTER)

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ANDREW GARLAND & ANDREA CONCETTI

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Norwegian Barihunk Audun Iversen

Norwegian baritone Audun Iversen began singing at the age of 22. In July 2007 Audun Iversen was a finalist in the “Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition” in Vienna. He won the “Queen Sonja International Singing Competition” in Oslo in August 2007, in addition to being the first singer to win the newly founded “Ingrid Bjoner Scholarship”.

His next performance will be in Britten's War Requiem with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Later this year he will perform the title role in Eugene Onegin at Opéra de Lille in France and the Count in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

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John David Boehr Works His Weapon

John David Boehr shows off some barihunk arms in this photo and works his weapon in this video of the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt from Gounod's "Romeo et Juliette."

A native of Waco, TX, Boehr has performed with Austin Lyric Opera, Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Palm Beach Opera and at Tanglewood. In 2009, he sang Figaro at the Minnesota Opera in the "Barber of Seville" and performed in Reinhard Keiser's "The Fortunes of King Croesus." He will be performing Chabrier's "L'étoile" at Austin Lyric Opera through February 7th and will perform with New York City Opera in the future.

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Nathan Gunn's "Billy Budd" Wins Grammy

At tonight's Grammy Awards Nathan Gunn's recording of Britten's "Billy Budd" won for "Best Opera Recording." Gunn performs the opera with the London Symphony conducted by Daniel Harding. The recording also features Neal Davies, Jonathan Lemalu, Matthew Rose and Gidon Saks.

Barihunks would like to congratulate Nathan Gunn, who is consistently one of the most popular singers on this site.

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