Honolulu TV station features "Barihunks" blog and trio of singers

Darren Stokes discussing Barihunks on KITV television

KITV television in Honolulu, Hawaii featured Barihunks on their news yesterday. The feature not only highlighted our ten years in the opera blogosphere, but was a promotion for Hawaii Opera Theatre's current production of Bizet's Carmen, which features three barihunks. We recently ran a post about the production. You can watch the entire segment HERE.

Carmen will feature Darren Stokes singing the role of Escamillo, joined by fellow barihunks Matthew Treviño as Zuniga and Brian James Myer as El Dancaïro. Stokes discusses the need to hit the gym to keep in shape for the physicality of the role, while Treviño talks about spikes to his website when he's featured on the site, and Myer talks about the need for singers to be promoted.

The cast for Carmen also includes Kate Aldrich in the title role, Kip Wilborn as Don José and the stunning Talise Trevigne as Micaëla. There are remaining performances on October 15 and 17, and tickets are available online.  

Derek Chester and Marco Vassalli from the 2018 Barihunks Calendar

Our 2018 Barihunks Calendar, which includes 20 of opera's sexiest men is now available for purchase HERE. In response to reader demand, we've also added a Barihunks Photo Book this year, which includes additional photos that don't appear in the calendar. You can purchase that HERE. The New Year is approaching faster than you think!

Matthew Treviño returns to U.S. for La bohème

Matthew Treviño

Matthew Treviño will make his debut this weekend with the Florentine Opera in Milwaukee as Colline in Puccini's La bohème. The role is becoming a bit of a calling card for the Texas native, as he's performed it with Opera Carolina, Lyric Opera of Kansas City and the Fresno Grand Opera.

Treviño recently wrapped up a successful stint with the English National Opera where he performed  Hobson in Britten's Peter Grimes and Sparafucile in Verdi's Rigoletto.  

Performances of La bohème are on Friday, May 9 at 7:30 PM and Sunday, May 11 at 2:30 PM. Tickets are available online. 

Matt Treviño sporting James Dean look as Leporello

Matt Treviño with Melody Moore, Elie Dehn and Christopher Magiera (clockwise)

After reading our post yesterday about "Barihunks on the air," an alert reader from Boulder, Colorado informed us that the current rum of Don Giovanni from Opera Colorado was being broadcast on Colorado Public Radio. Bummed out that we missed it, we were hoping that a link to the broadcast was still up, but we were sadly disappointed. (Are you folks at CPR reading this? Hint. Hint).

The production features our favorite cigar chomping barihunk Matt Treviño as Leporello and Christopher Magiera as Don Giovanni. The production is being updated to mid-century America with Matt Treviño looking very James Dean-esque. This is Treviño's third role in Don Giovanni, pulling off a rare trifecta. He previously sang the title role with Opera Naples and the Commendatore at the Fort Worth Opera.

If you're in the Rocky Mountain area, you can still catch it live on April 2, 5 and 7. Tickets are available online.

Matt Treviño

Upcoming performances for Treviño include the Ethel Smyth Mass in D with the Cecelia Chorus of New York at Carnegie Hall on April 14, 2013, Beethoven's 9th Symphony at his alma mater Baylor University on April 20th and Sparafucile/Monterone in Verdi's Rigoletto at the Lyric Opera Baltimore on May 17th and 19th.

Matt Trevino touring Ireland in Orfeo

Plutone (Matt Trevino) letting (Orfeo) Oliver Mercer sneak a peak at Euridice?

Opera Theatre Compnay, Ireland's premiere touring opera company, is opening Monteverdi's "Orfeo" tonight in Waterford at the Theatre Royal with and additional performance on Sunday. The production will then travel to Galway, Carlow, Limerick, Tallaght, Navan, Dublin, Bray, Mayo and wrapping up in Wexford on June 30th. Visit their website for additional information.

American barihunk Matt Trevino is singing Plutone/Caronte opposite the hunkentenor of Oliver Mercer.

You can watch an entire performance of the famous Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production of Orfeo under the baton of Nickolaus Harnoncourt from Zurich below.

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Matt Trevino Wins Critics Award

Matt Trevino: Barihunk

American barihunk Matt Trevino has won the Austin Critics’ Table Award for his performance in Michael Nyman's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" at the Austin Lyric Opera.



In its 16th year, the Austin Critics’ Table is an informal group of arts critics from the American-Statesman and the Austin Chronicle that annually recognizes outstanding achievement in the arts. This year’s awards recognize events between May 1, 2010 and April 30, 2011.

Trevino is next scheduled to sing at the Nashville Opera in Verdi's "La Traviata" in October.

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Barihunk Matt Trevino

Barihunk Matthew Trevino singing "Ich Grolle Nicht" in Michael Nyman's opera "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat."

Matt Trevino

Trevino will next appear in "The Pirates of Penzance" with the Fresno Grand Opera on January 28 & 30. In what has become our pet peeve, the opera company does not list the cast on their website. We find this incredibly disrespectful to artists, as well as poor marketing and customer service.

He next appears on the opposite coast with the Pensacola Opera where he will portray Timur in Puccini's "Turandot" on March 11 & 13. He then heads north to the Syracuse Opera where he will perform Nourabad in the Pearl Fishers. Both opera companies list complete cast and production information.

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Emerging Barihunk Gabriel Preisser

Gabriel Preisser as a modern day Don Giovanni

Here are two videos of the emerging barihunk Gabriel Preisser, who is new to the site. The 26-year-old singer is currently at the Kentucky Opera singing Yamadori in Madama Butterfly and Figaro in the “Barber of Seville.” He then travels further south to the Pensacola Opera where he will be one of their studio artists. He is slated to sing John Brook in Mark Adamo’s “Little Women” and the Mandarin in Puccini’s “Turandot.” As an added bonus to Barihunks fans, one of our favorite singers, Matt Trevino, will be performing Timur. [Look to your right!]



This video is from Daron Hagen's “Broken Pieces,” his New York Stories trilogy. Gabriel Preisser is joined by soprano Andrea Shokery and pianist Lisa Hasson. The production is part of the Composer Workshop program, a collaboration with Kentucky Opera, the University of Louisville School of Music and the Academy of Music at St. Francis in the Fields.



Here is Gabriel Preisser as Riccardo in Bellini's I Puritani Act II Finale duet with Daniel Richardson as Giorgio.

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Matthew Treviño's Sexy Sparafucile

There are some roles that we suspect will never make it onto Barihunks, like Falstaff. It's just hard to imagine anyone making that particular role sexy. We have our abundance of Escamillos, Zurgas, Billy Budds and Don Giovannis, so we're always looking for the unusual. We were toying with posting Simon Keenlyside's Rigoletto at Welsh National Opera, but we realized that even with one of our favorite barihunks, it was a stretch.

However, we did find this clip of Matthew Treviño as Sparafucile from the same opera. We were blown away by how searingly sexy he is as the evil assasin in this clip from Act 3. The performance appears to be from a recent production at the San Antonio Opera. We're fairly certain that he's the first Sparafucile to appear on this site.

Treviño now heads to Austin Lyric Opera to perform in Michael Nyman's chamber opera "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat."

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Barihunk Gathering In Ft. Worth

Since the Ft. Worth summer opera festival has the greatest collection of barihunks around this season, it seemed appropriate to brave the 100-degree heat and hand out the first official BARIHUNK t-shirts.  The top photo is Ft. Worth's Don Giovanni, Michael Todd Simpson and Wes Mason, who plays Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls. The middle photo is John Boehr, Matt Trevino, Chris Bolduc, Seth Mease Carico, Wes Mason and Michael Todd Simpson. The bottom photo is Wes Mason, Michael Todd Simpson, Matt Trevino, Seth Mease Carico, John Boehr and Chris Bolduc.

It's already been suggested that the next batch be muscle shirts. Thoughts? 

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