Back in May, we posted about barihunk Michael Nagy would perform the title role in Swiss composer Andrea
Lorenzo Scartazzini new opera about Edward II at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The production opens on February and we have some photos from the rehearsals, which are going on now.
The opera will have five
performances between February 19-March 9,
hunkentenor Ladislav Elgr singing the role of his alleged lover Piers de
Gaveston and barihunk Jarrett Ott as the Angel.
The libretto by Thomas Jonigk focuses entirely on the role of the
outsider Edward II and looks at society’s attitude towards homosexuals
both then and now. Whether the close bond between Edward and Gaveston in
the early 14th
century was sexual in nature remains a contested issue, but among art
circles Edward II has long been an icon of the gay movement. Gaveston
was decapitated for being gay and King Edward II was executed in 1327 by
having a red hot roasting spit shoved into his anus.
The subject matter inspired Christopher Marlowe’s bloody 1593 play about
the self-assertive strivings of the hapless English king, the 1923 version
by Bertolt Brecht of the same name and Derek Jarman’s 1992 famous film
adaptation “Edward II.”
Scartazzini most recent operatic work was The Sandman, which premiered in 2012 at the Theater Basel with Christof Loy directing. Tickets for Edward II are on sale now online.
Yesterday we featured barihunks out in the English countryside, so it's only appropriate that we head up into the Colorado Rockies today. In beautiful Crested Butte, Colorado a trio of barihunks is also taking up Mozart. At the Crested Butte Music Festival, Philip Cutlip (Papageno), Keith Miller (Sarastro) and Marcell Bakonyi (Speaker) are performing the Magic Flute at the famed ski resort.
Keith Miller & Philip Cutlip
We've featured Cutlip and Miller extensively on this site in the past, but Bokonyi is a new singer for us.Bakonyiwas born in 1980 in Győr, Hungary. He
studied voice at the Leo-Weiner Conservatory of Music in Budapest, and
later at the Hochschule für Musik, Stuttgart with Professor Julia
Hamari where he also attended classes in Lieder singing.
Since 2009 he has been a member of the ensemble of the Landestheater
Salzburg where he sang the roles of Bartolo and Figaro in Le Nozze di
Figaro, as well as Kaspar in Der Freischütz, Angelotti in Tosca and
Bacco in Arianna, Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore and Leporello in Don Giovanni.
Crested Butte is best known for their international film festival, skiing and as the birthplace of mountain biking. The Music Festival presents diverse array of music, dance and opera. This year's lineup includes Broadway tunes, bluegrass, jazz, sacred, chamber, symphonic and operatic fare. There is also a young artist training program headed by tenor Marcello Giordano. The Magic Flute will run from July 25-29. Visit their website for additional information.
In a sign that barihunks are being viewed as sex symbols more widely, Keith Miller was asked to model for this Suburu ad and we think he looks pretty hot.
