Okulitch at Museum of Sex

By PlaybillArts Staff
October 26, 2009

In anticipation of its forthcoming production of the Mozart classic, New York City Opera will host an Oct. 27 event exploring the legend behind Don Giovanni. The 7 PM presentation will be held at the Museum of Sex in Manhattan.


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New York City Opera's own Don Juan (bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch) in its new production of Don Giovanni, director Christopher Alden, and Esther Perel, a prominent sexologist, join us for an intimate, provocative exchange on the Don Juan legend, including a live excerpt from Don Giovanni, and film and audio clips and slides.

The evening will explore history versus myth, the Don's changing image, how Mozart's Don Juan relates to the composer's own lusty sexuality, City Opera's new interpretation, and Don Juan in the 21st century.

PARTICIPANTS:

Christopher Alden, director
Daniel Okulitch, bass-baritone
Esther Perel, couple therapist, author of Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
Liora Maurer, pianist
Moderator: Cori Ellison, City Opera Dramaturg

Tickets are $10. The Museum of Sex is located at 233 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Call 212-689-6337 x115 or visit www.museumofsex.com

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Can You Tell Them Apart?

The Arizona Republic newspaper recently ran this paragraph in a review of Cosi fan Tutti at Arizona Opera:

The girls and boys are pretty much interchangeable - can you tell the difference between Guglielmo (David Adam Moore) and Ferrando (Gordon Gietz)? Didn't think so.

I'm not sure that it matters if one can tell them apart. They're both pretty hot and we happily welcome tenor Gordon Gietz to the site.

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The Hot Pole

What more can we say about Mariusz Kwiecien's special gift? After all, it's one of the reasons we call him the Hot Pole.

Kwiecien is heading to his homeland to sing Lord Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Opera Krakowska beginning in November.

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Zachary Gordin in "A Night of Barihunks"

Zachary Gordin is new to our site and he's part of what we're calling "A Night of Barihunks" at the Oakland East Bay Symphony on November 13th. The former countertenor will be joining barihunks Brian Leerhuber and Joshua Bloom in a night of operatic scenes (including tenors and sopranos, as well).

Bloom and Leerhuber have both appeared on this site before. Leerhuber was featured for his amazing chest and Gordin gives him some serious competition in that category. These are two guys who need to be featured in the shirtless barihunk roles that provide this site with content (i.e. - Pearl Fishers, Rape of Lucretia, Don Giovanni and Billy Budd).

Gordin has recently performed with the Oakland East Bay Symphony in a concert performance of “Otello." In August, he appeared as Wagner in “Faust” with the Festival Opera in Walnut Creek. If you miss him in "A Night of Barihunks," you can see him portray Enrico in “Lucia di Lammermoor” with North Bay Opera in March 2010.

We hope to see a lot more of Gordin in the future.

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See David Krohn for FREE (but with his shirt on)

For those of you in the New York area, you can go see barihunk David Krohn for free at his Julliard recital concert. It will take place on November 17 in Julliard's Paul Hall at 8 PM.

He'll be performing Handel's "Dalla Guerra Amorosa", Schubert's "3 Gesänge des Harfners" and Ravel's "Histoires Naturelles."

Krohn has been featured on Barihunks three times before and he's building quite a following as he launches his career.

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Markus Werba sings Don Giovanni's "Finch'han dal vino"

A video of Markus Werba's recent performance of Don Giovanni in Japan has finally emerged for your viewing pleasure. He is every bit as sexy as we were told.

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The sexiest Tarquinius?

We have always maintained that Matthew Worth is the sexiest Tarquinius in the world today, but Christopher Maltman offers up quite a challenge in this performance from the Aldeburgh Festival. He also sings this music as beautifully as we've heard. Here's a clip from what may be the most glorious five minutes of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.








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Random Barihunks: Forde, Prato & Turner

Here are three of our favorite barihunks, two Americans and an Italian.

The top photo is Tom Forde, who will be singing Mozart's title character in Figaro at the Tacoma Opera in February. He's a gifted young singer with a wonderful stage presence and we predict great things for him.

The center photo is Italian barihunk Vittorio Prato who will be singing Massimo in Handel's Ezio next month at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. We think he's one of the hottest singers in Europe right now and really wish that someone in the U.S. would engage him.

Finally, there's Randal Turner who is a favorite on this site and the winner of our "Hottest Don Giovanni" competition in a landslide. He's singing Konrad Nachtigall in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Turner is another barihunk who we'd like to see singing more in the United States.

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Happy Birthday, Dmitri Hvorostovsky!

The "Siberian Hunky" celebrates his 47th birthday on October 16th. In our eyes he just gets sexier every year.

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Our Latest Baby Barihunk was Paul Armin Edelmann

No one managed to guess that our latest baby picture was of Austrian barihunk Paul Armin Edelmann. The popular guesses seemed to be Rod Gilfry and Teddy Tahu Rhodes.

Edelmann may be the only singer that we know of who has made Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus sexy. After this video, perhaps we should add it to our list of barihunk roles. He also manages to sing this aria as beautifully as we've heard since Herman Prey three decades ago.



Fans of this site will be pleased to know that Edelmann has an actual barihunk role on his agenda. He's scheduled to sing Papageno in both Beijing and at the St. Margarethen Opera Music Festival.

EDELMANN AS PAPAGENO


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Simon Keenlyside as Cover Boy

Fans of Simon Keenlyside should rush out to buy the latest copy of BBC Music, which features Simon Keenlyside. Inside the magazine is a wonderful feature on the popular barihunk. There is also an interesting article on what they deem the ten greatest baritone roles.

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Name the Baby Barihunk

Not too many of you were fooled by the last Baby Barihunk, so let's see if you can identify this major talent. Submit your guess by clicking on the "comments" link below.

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Wilhelm Schwinghammer: Latin Lover? Vibrating Hammer?

[Photo from the Hamburger Abendblatt]

Bass-Barihunk Wilhelm Schwinghammer was recently featured in the Hamburger Abendblatt. The first line of the article roughly translates, "With his thick black hair and dark eyes under thick brows, he could easily be mistaken for a Latin Lover." The article goes on to explain that the singer is actually Bavarian. He's also been featured on this site before in a post called "Hamburger Hunks." The hunky German studied at the Musikgymnasium der Regensburger Domspatzen before heading to the University of the Arts in Berlin. He has refined his craft in smaller roles at the Hamburg Staastsoper.

Schwinghammer recently gave a riveting performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. You can briefly hear him in this YouTube clip from Johann Gottlieb Naumann's "Aci e Galatea." Word out of Germany is that he is an extremely gifted Handel performer.

Just for laughs, Barihunks placed "Schwinghammer" in the Google Translator and it came out "Vibrating Hammer." With a name like that he might be mistaken for more than a Latin Lover.

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