Xavier Rivera in free San Francisco concert

Xavier Rivera: Pearl Fishers selfie

You can hear 2015 Barihunk calendar model Xavier Rivera for free on Friday, February 13th at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He'll be performing the Zurga-Laïla duet from Bizet's The Pearl Fishers. The concert starts at 7:30 PM. 

The program will also include other artists in arias and duets from Humperdink's Hansel and Gretel,
Rachel Portman's The Little Prince. Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and Massenet's Manon.

The Puerto Rican native recently appeared in San Juan in Puccini's La bohème and has performed in Mozart's Requiem with the Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Coronation Mass in the San Francisco Master Chorale in San Josè and Castro Valley, California. 

Zachary Gordin to kick off Olympic Music Festival

Barihunk Zachary Gordin

Popular barihunk calendar model Zachary Gordin will be performing this weekend at the bucolic Olympic Music Festival, located on a turn-of-the-century dairy farm located on 55 acres of tranquil farmland on Washington state's beautiful Olympic Peninsula.

The singer, who is based in the San Francisco Bay area and performs regularly with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, will be performing Robert Schumann’s “Dichterliebe,” Franz Liszt’s “Liebestraume” and the “Chansons Grises” by Reynaldo Hahn. His program is entitled “Songs and Dances of Love," but from the emails that we receive about the bodybuilding singer, he may want to rename it “Songs and Dances of Lust."

 Zachary Gordin sings "Estuans interius" from Carl Orff's Carmina Burana

After Gordin kicks off the festival, concerts will continue every Saturday and Sunday at 2 PM now through September 1st. The concerts take place on hay-bale seating inside a barn with picnicking encouraged on the lawn outside.

Advance tickets to the Olympic Music Festival are $30 for adults for barn seating; $28 for seniors 62 and older and $18 for youth age 7 to 17. At the gate on concert day, those prices go up $3. For lawn seating, there are no advance sales; tickets at the gate are $20 for adults, $14 for youth and free for children 6 and younger.
 
Visit the Olympic Music Festival online for additional program information. 

Zachary Gordin: Orff, Orff. Woof, Woof.

Zachary Gordin rehearsing with Festival Opera

We've seen opera singers show up in all kinds of garb for rehearsals from turbans to yoga outfits, but few make quite the impression that barihunk Zachary Gordin makes. This photo was taken at the recent rehearsal for Festival Opera's "Make Our Garden Grow" benefit in Walnut Creek, California. Gordin is known for his flashy, flesh revealing outfits and occasional baubles, bangles...and bright, shiny beads.

A regular fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene, where he started as a countertenor, Gordin has increasingly become a fixture in Southern California, as well. His next appearance will be on July 28th with the Pacific Shores Philharmonic at the Libbey Bowl in Ojai, California. Gordin will be reprising the baritone role in Orff's Carmina Burana, which he recently performed to critical acclaim with the Oakland East Bay Symphony.

All we have to say is: WOOF!!! We want to get invited to some rehearsals.

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