Reader Submission: French bass-barihunk Julien Ségol

Julien Ségol

French bass-barihunk Julien Ségol is our latest reader submission, coming from a reader who saw him in recital last month. 

He started his musical studies at the age of 10 by studying violin with Chantal Crennes, a former member of the Orchestre National de France. In 2006 he began his vocal studies with at the Conservatoire Hector Berlioz in Paris. He graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris in 2011. His interest for German repertoire brought him to Germany in 2013, where he studied at the Musikhochschule Felix Mendelssohn (Leipzig).

He was the winner of the 2015 Bach Cantata Prize at the Internationale Sächsische Sängerakademie Torgau in Germany.

While studiying voice he  also received a Master degrees from the Institut de Sciences Politiques de Paris and from the EHESS. He then received a doctoral scholarship from the Marc Bloch Zentrum in Berlin to do a PhD in cultural anthropology, which he completed on the subject : “The Malleable Body: A Symbolic Revolution. Aesthetic and Social Transformations of the Body in France and Germany, 1900-1933."

Julien Ségol sings Duparc's "Le Manoir de Rosemonde":

Ségol has performed at the Berlin Philharmonic, Rundfunk Berlin, Academy of the Arts Berlin, Delphi Theater, Kultur Büro Elisabeth, Hartenfels Castle in Saxony and Rheinsberg Castle. 

In 2017, he was mentioned on Barihunks as part of 24 singers who performed Schubert's Winterreise at Puccini's Toaster in Berlin, performing "Gefrorene Tränen." Other recent engagements include a Poulenc recital at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and a Goethe-Lieder recital at the Château de Cerisy in Normandy. The role of the Wolf in Su-eun Lee's children opera “Rotkäppchen” at the Young Artists Studio of the Deutsche Oper was created for him..

Nine baritones to perform Schubert's Winterreise in one night!!!

Joa Helgesson, Reuben Walker and Seth Carico

Advent is being celebrated in Berlin this year with 24 singers performing Schubert's Winterreise, with each performing a different song. Tenors, mezzo-sopranos and sopranos will all be represented, as well as 9 amazing baritones. They include 2018 Barihunks Calendar model Joa Helgesson, along with Julian Arsenault, Reuben Walker, Julien Ségol, Stephen Bronk, Seth Carico, Allen Boxer, Markus Brück and Jason Steigerwalt.

The performance is on December 17th at Puccini's Toaster in Berlin and tickets are available online.

Here is the entire song cycle with performers.

Gute Nacht - Joa Helgesson
Die Wetterfahne - Katrin Le Provost
Gefrorene Tränen - Julien Ségol
Erstarrung - Julie Wyma
Der Lindenbaum - Rachel Fenlon
Wasserflut - Tyler Clarke
Auf dem Flusse - Ziad Nehme
Rückblick - Vera-Lotte Böcker
Irrlicht - Sarah Ring
Rast - Davia Bouley
Frühlingstraum - Julian Arsenault
Einsamkeit - Laura Atkinson
Die Post - Reuben Walker
Der greise Kopf - Stephen Bronk
Die Krähe - Sylvia Klein-Bronk
Letzte Hoffnung - Marie-Audrey Schatz
Im Dorfe - Seth Carico
Der stürmische Morgen - Robert Watson
Täuschung - Caitlin Redding
Der Wegweiser - Allen Boxer
Das Wirtshaus - Markus Brück
Mut! - Sally Drutman
Die Nebensonnen - Mary Osborne
Der Leiermann - Jason Steigerwalt

Joa Helgesson and Derek Chester from 2018 Barihunks Calendar/Photo Book

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Michael Weyandt to perform with Summer of Song Series

Michael Weyandt

Our most recent post about German barihunk Martin Häßler ended with a notice about his upcoming debut recital at Wigmore Hall in London. The concert features works by Schubert, Wolf and Finzi. So imagine our surprise when the next day our inbox included a notice for American barihunk Michael Weyandt's upcoming recital with the "Summer of Song Series" in New York featuring works by Schubert, Wolf and Finzi.

The recitals do feature mostly different works by the two singers, except for Wolf's Begegnung
and An eine Aeolsharfe. Häßler will be performing Mussorgsky and Weyandt will have music by Bolcom, Poulenc, Fujimoto and Lehrer.

Heinrich Schlusnus sings Hugo Wolf's "Begegnung":

Weyandt's recital will be on on Thursday, June 20 at 7pm at Opera America (330 7th Avenue) and will feature accompanist Thomas Muraco. Single tickets for the concert are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. Contact Blair Boone at ASPSNY@gmail.com regarding tickets. For all other tickets, visit, artsongpreservationsociety.org, call (646) 369-5247 or purchase directly at the door.

Cast Change: Michael Kelly steps into Winterreise

Michael Kelly

One of our favorite young baritones (and former tenor) Michael Kelly will replace Sanford Sylvan in "Winterreise" for Schubert & Co. next weekend. Kelly will be accompanied by Jonathan Ware at the piano.  The performance will be on Saturday, January 26 at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York City. We'd pay anything to hear Michael Kelly in this music, so the best thing about this concert is that it's free. 

If you can't wait until next weekend, Kelly will join fellow barihunk Jesse Blumberg this Sunday, January 20 in Schubert songs by Goethe. The duo will be joined by soprano Simone Easthope, soprano Raquel Gonzalez, mezzo Jazmina MacNeil and tenor Spencer Lang. The concert is also at the Central Presbyterian Church in New York City. Pianists Jonathan Ware and Malcolm Martineau will perform.

Schubert & Co. is a group of artists committed to furthering the art of song. Theyare  presenting the complete solo lieder of Franz Schubert in New York City in a series of recitals spanning from September 2012 to May 2013.

Jesse Blumberg

Fans of Jesse Blumberg on the opposite coast can see him on Tuesday, February 19th in San Francisco, where he'll perform in the West Coast premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon's "Green Sneakers." Tickets are available online.

Barihunks Calendar model David Adam Moore to perform Schubert's Winterreise in Kansas

David Adam Moore from last year's calendar

We have no idea why we suddenly have so much barihunk news out of the American Midwest, but they seem to be descending among the cornfields like Schistocerca gregaria locusts. We recently posted about Michael Kelly and Dan Kempson performing in the area, now we've learned that David Adam Moore will be singing Schubert in Hesston, Kansas just 35 miles north of Wichita.

Moore, of course, has been a popular model in both our 2012 and 2013 Barihunks Charity Calendar.

David Adam Moore will be joining accompanist Earl Buys on December 2 at 3 p.m. at Hesston Mennonite Church on the Hesston College campus to present his multimedia seasonal concert of Franz Schubert’s song cycle Die Winterreise.

Die Winterreise is a setting of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller, performed in Schubert’s native German. Moore created a staging of Schubert’s masterwork with video projection, including English surtitles, as a way to help the audience visualize the very descriptive text.

David Adam Moore sings "Ego sum abbas" from Carmina Burana:

Moore is a graduate of the Oberlin (Ohio) College Conservatory of Music and the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. He was a participant in the Seattle Young Artists program before hitting it big on the world's greatest opera stages in Don Giovanni, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Billy Budd  and The Barber of Seville. We recently announced that Moore’s will star in Oklahoma! at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Moore will also conduct a master class with voice students from Hesston College and Bethel College, Dec. 3 at Hesston Mennonite Church. The class is free and open to the public. Single tickets for the David Adam Moore concert are available at the Hesston-Bethel Performing Arts Center website of by calling 620-327-8158 (Hesston College) or 316-284-5205 (Bethel College).

David Adam Moore is the May feature in our new charity calendar along with rising star Michael Hewitt. But it at Lulu:

Luca Pisaroni LIVE from Edinburgh

Luca Pisaroni

Luca Pisaroni just wrapped up a critically acclaimed performance of Rossini's Maometto II in Santa Fe, adding another major success to his burgeoning career. He now heads to the Edinburgh International Festival where he will be performing a song recital.

Pisaroni will continue performing Rossini with selections from Péchés de vieillesse. The rest of the program includes Schubert’s Three Songs D902, lieder by Meyerbeer and  Liszt's Petrarch Sonnets.

The entire recital can be heard live on BBC3 on August 23 at 11 AM DST/6 AM EST/3 AM PST. 

Two Barihunk Recitals "Not To Be Missed"

Nathan Gunn as Billy Budd

Two of our most popular barihunks have upcoming recitals that are sure to be exciting nights in the theater. 

Nathan Gunn will perform in concert as part of the Washington National Opera's "Celebrity Series" on Sunday, September 23 at 4 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Opera House. Accompanied by the Washington National Opera Orchestra under the baton of Tony Award winner Ted Sperling, Gunn will perform selections from operas by Mozart, Rossini, and Bizet, plus songs by Sondheim and other Broadway composers.

The duo that started the barihunk/hunkentenor craze:

American tenor William Burden will join him for a few duets. Regular readers of the site and "Barihunk historians" will recall that the shirtless duo of Gunn and Burden is what started the whole barihunk craze when they performed "Iphigénie en Tauride" at Glimmerglass in 1997 and then appeared shirtless together in Philadelphia in 2004.

Jesse Blumberg: A one man barihunk craze

Baritone Jesse Blumberg joins the amazing accompanist Martin Katz in a return to the Kerrytown Concert House to perform a variety of repetoire The program includes Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Wolf, Debussy (in honor of his 150th birthday) and Tom Cipullo's "Excelsior." Blumberg and Katz wowed audiences in 2009 at the Kerrytown Center with a double-bill of Schubert's "Die Schöne Müllerin" and "Die Winterreise."

Visit the Kerrytown Concert House website to purchase tickets.

Philippe Sly: ON DEMAND

Philippe Sly

Canadian barihunk and emerging star Philippe Sly's June 19th concert is available on demand for free at Radio France. He's performing Duparc's "Chanson Triste, Phidylé," Ravel's "Don Quichotte à Dulciné," Ropartz's "Quatre poèmes d’après l’Intermezzo de Heine," Jonathan Dove's "Three Tennyson Songs" and Schubert's "Mélodies."

The recital starts at about the 6:35 mark.

Sly recently won the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions and will be making his San Francisco Opera debut as Guglielmo in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte in their 2012-2013 season. He's is currently a Studio Ensemble member of the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.

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Catching up with Damien Pass in France

Damien Pass

When we last featured Aussie barihunk Damien Pass in 2007, he had recently graduated from Oberlin, had won and Encouragement Award from the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition and was starting to get small roles in places like Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Opera North and the Music Academy of the West. Somehow we lost track of him until we received an email recently asking why he wasn't included in our poll of sexiest Aussie barihunks.

We're pleased to announce that we found him in France, where he's been singing smaller roles at the Paris Opera.  He's performed Don Inigo (L’heure Espagnole, Ravel), Frank Maurrant (Street Scene, Weill), Lucas (Les Troqueurs, Dauvergne), and the Marquese (Mirandolina, Martinů) with the Atelier Lyrique at the Paris Opera.

Damien Pass sings Aaron Copland's "At the River":

In September 2001, Pass made his Parisian recital debut with the Fesival les journées romantiques with a program that included Aaron Copland, Franz Liszt, Cole Porter, Franz Schubert and Henri Duparc.

He's also made his mark outside of France, singing the title role in Handel’s Saul with the Britten-Pears Orchestra conducted by Richard Egarr in Aldeburgh.

 Damien Pass sings Aaron Copland's "Long Time Ago":

Pass will next be seen March 15th at the Palais Garnier in a program of Massenet with the Paris Opera Orchestra. A week later he'll be part of a concert of music by Franz Schubert, Hugo Wolf et Richard Wagner at the Goethe Institute in Paris. We'll try to keep better tabs on this promising young talent in the future.

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Christopher Maltman: COVERBOY

Christopher Maltman (photo by Pia Clodi)

We have a thousand reasons to love Christopher Maltman. We could start with his stunning lieder recitals and recordings, which currently include some of the best Schubert recordings on the market. Or we could love him for his dramatically intense portrayals on stage where he consistently taps into his emotional and psychological reservoirs to give us a complete portrayal of the character. Who could ever forget his Don Giovanni's at the Salzburg Festival or his portrayal of the same role in the movie Juan? We could love him for bringing elegance and grace to the world of opera both on stage or off stage. But Barihunks is equally about great musicianship and charismatic sexiness. Maltman has the latter in abundance.

Of course, there is nothing sexier than a sexy man who can carry it off without being pompous, arrogant or acting like a reject from Jersey Shore. Maltman wears his barihunk status as well as anyone in the business, along with guys like Erwin Schrott, Daniel Okulitch and Mariusz Kwiecien. One can always tell how comfortable a singer is in his skin by the way he answers a question about being a barihunk. We've seen singers make the ridiculous claim that they are completely unaware of their sex appeal or that they've never read articles (or looked at Barihunks) that discuss their sexiness. Of course, many of these same singers regularly send us photos and try desperately to get on the site!

That's why we loved this part of the profile on Maltman that appears in the Janauary 2012 edition of Opera Now magazine, where the British barihunk appears on the cover:

Opera needs its sexy poster boys and Maltman is claiming his billboard - not with Erwin Schrott-style Latin machismo or velvety Jonas Kaufmann looks, but a guy-impaling intensity that shatters surface veneer.

Does being considered a sex symbol bother him? 'No one's going to complain about being found desirable,' he laughs. 'And for Don Giovanni, it's crucial. He has to be dangerous, without that he's nothing. That's what I learnt when I was directed in the role by Sir Thomas Allen. He has to unbalance people, make them vulnerable and access their psyches at the same time. He's a chameleon, he changes from minute to minute but without personal contradiction; that's dangerous and sexy.'

Maltman will return to the role of Don Giovanni this summer with five performances at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. Performances will run from June 24-July 6 and tickets and additional cast information can be found HERE. The all-star cast is laden with barihunks, including Erwin Schrott as Leporello and Alexander Tsymbalyuk as the Commendatore. Anna Netrebko is the Donna Anna and this will undoubtedly be one of the hottest tickets in all of opera this year.



Maltman begins 2012 on the concert stage with a recital centering around Ravel and his contemporaries at Wigmore Hall on January 15.  He then heads to San Francisco on January 19 for a recital at the Herbst Theater, which includes music by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Hahn and Faure. In February, he returns to the opera stage, singing Marcello at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.  The cast at the Liceu includes the most visited barihunk on our site, Gabriel Bermudez, who will be singing Schaunard. Perhaps the most unusual performance for Maltman this year is his assayal of Kurwenal in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in a concert version with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra on August 24.

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Edwin Crossley-Mercer in Ariadne at Opéra De Paris

We've been following the career of Edwin Crossley-Mercer for a few years now. We've been particularly impressed by his wonderful lieder singing, which he honed in master classes with Thomas Quastoff and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. The 28-year-old was trained as a clarinetist and sings with the beauty of line and tone of a wind player.

Although we admire him for his song recitals, we were thrilled to see him on the roster at the Opéra De Paris singing Harlequin in Richard Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos." (By the way, you don't want to miss Jane Archibald singing Zerbinetta). Performances begin tonight and run through the end of the month. You can watch a highlight video on their website.

Although opera is creeping onto his schedule, Crossley-Mercer still has plenty of lieder on his schedule. He has performed critically acclaimed renditions of Schubert's Winterreise at Bayreuth and at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, prompting one reviewer to call it the definitive portrayal of our time.

You can hear him perform "Auf dem Flusse" from Winterreise by clicking HERE and Frühlingstraum by clicking HERE.  There are also a number of clips on YouTube, including this rendition of Taüschung.

Schubert singing doesn't get much better than this.

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NY POST: "Woman collapses during Nathan Gunn performance at Richard Branson's Halloween bash"

Let's face it, the most enjoyable news and gossip can be found in the New York Post's "Page Six" column. Imagine our delight when we opened the paper and saw the post-Halloween headline that screamed: "Woman collapses during Nathan Gunn performance at Richard Branson's Halloween bash"

Here's the actual piece that ran in the NY Post:

There was drama at Saturday's Halloween masked ball at Richard Branson and Robert Wojtowicz's Natirar estate when a well-dressed woman collapsed as baritone Nathan Gunn performed. Guests including Cornelia Guest and Matthew Settle gasped as a member of the New Jersey social club and spa at the estate fainted as Gunn performed a Schubert piece in German. The woman was revived, but paramedics were called as a precaution. Gunn told us: "The song had a Halloween theme, about death. I decided not to sing in German again after that. Luckily there were two doctors in the house. I hope she is OK." Other guests at the breast-cancer fund-raiser included Veronica Webb and Mary Alice Stephenson, who seemed disappointed that Queen Noor was "unexpectedly detained overseas," according to organizers. Branson also missed the bash after he decided to party on his private Necker Island in the Caribbean.

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Rescheduled Markus Werba Recital on BBC

Popular Austrian Barihunk Markus Werba

Brits were greatly disappointed last April when Iceland's ash cloud caused the cancellation of Austrian barihunk Markus Werba's Wigmore Hall BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert. The program of Schubert and Brahms lieder with accompanist Gary Matthewman finally was heard the other night and is now available for free on BBC radio for Werba fans across the globe to hear.

You can click HERE to listen to the recital, which starts at about the 3:00 mark.

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Jesse Blumberg Performs Tonight in NYC

www.longy.edu

If you're in the New York City area tonight don't miss Jesse Blumberg's recital tonight accompanied by pianist Erika Switzer. Blumberg is one of our favorite performers and he's put together a program of music by Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Britten and others.

Blumberg recently joined internationally renowned accompanist Martin Katz for performances of Schubert’s “Die Schoene Müllerin” and “Die Winterreise” in Ann Arbor. For those of you on the East Coast who missed Blumberg and Katz together, you can see them at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 12th.

Tonight's concert will be at the Bechstein Piano Centre, 207 West 58th Street in New York City from 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM. Admission is $20.

Don't miss it!

You can check out sound clips of Jesse Blumberg on his website.

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Jesse Blumberg's Three Days Of Schubert Off To Good Start

Susan Isaacs Nisbett's review at AnnArbor.com indicates that the three days of Schubert at the University of Michigan with barihunk Jesse Blumberg and accompanist Martin Katz is off to a good start. Here's her review:

The stars just won’t align for the hero of Schubert’s “Die Schöne Müllerin.” In the final song of 20 constituting this great Schubert song cycle, the hero, having lost the lovely miller’s daughter of the title to a rival, meets his end by the brook that has sung to him and led him to her.

But Friday evening at Kerrytown Concert House, the stars aligned perfectly for Schubert, and for the song cycle itself, which received a vivid, finely paced reading from baritone Jesse Blumberg and pianist Martin Katz. [Continued Here]



Yesterday's recital marked the one year mark from Blumberg opening night in Ricky Ian Gordon's newest opera "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" at the Minneapolis Opera. There will be more to come on that production as opening night nears.

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Jesse Blumberg's Three Days of Schubert

Anyone near Ann Arbor, Michigan is in for a real treat as Barihunks favorite Jesse Blumberg is coming from April 16-18 to perform three days of Schubert. Each day includes an entirely different fare. On April 16th, the gifted singer will perform "Die Schöne Müllerin." On April 17th, he will be joined by one of the world's greatest accompanists, Martin Katz, for a Schubert master class with young singers from the University of Michigan. The next day he tackles the daunting song cycle “Die Winterreise.”

Not only is Jesse Blumberg pure eye candy, but he's an extremely talented singer who will undoubtedly bring amazing insights to Schubert's music. Having Martin Katz at the piano only guarantees that this might be the best $20.00 opera deal in the country this year.

Click HERE for ticket and concert information.

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Timothy Sharp Debuts on Barihunks

We'd like to welcome German baritone Timothy Sharp to Barihunks. He'll be opening as Ulisse in Monteverdi's "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria" on Sunday, February 28th at the Oper Wuppertal.

Sharp was born in Augsburg, Germany and studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. Known for his beautiful lieder singing, he has gone on to perform in Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Mannheim, Venice, Naples, Frankfurt, Leipzig and in the U.S. at the Chicago Opera Theater. His mother is the soprano and music professor Norma Sharp.

Here he is singing Schubert's wonderful piece "Du bist die Ruh":



A little trivia about the city of Wuppertal, which sits in the Rhine Valley near Cologne: It is where aspirin was invented and was the home to Friedrich Engels, who wrote the Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx.

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David Krohn Performs Schubert's "Schwanengesang"

The layout of this blog cuts off part of the video. You can see the complete picture at Trinity Wall Street's website.



The songs of Schwanengesang, in the composer's original order, are:

* By Ludwig Rellstab:
o Liebesbotschaft ("Message of love"; the singer invites a stream to convey a message to his beloved)
o Kriegers Ahnung ("Warrior's foreboding"; a soldier encamped with his comrades sings of how he misses his beloved)
o Frühlingssehnsucht ("Longing in spring": the singer is surrounded by natural beauty but feels melancholy and unsatisfied until his beloved can "free the spring in my breast")
o Ständchen (Serenade)
o Aufenthalt ("Dwelling place": the singer is consumed by anguish for reasons we aren't told, and likens his feelings to the river, forest and mountain around him)
o In der Ferne ("In the distance": the singer has fled his home, broken-hearted, and complains of having no friends and no home; he asks the breezes and sunbeams to convey his greetings to the one who broke his heart)
o Abschied ("Farewell": the singer bids a cheery but determined farewell to a town where he has been happy but which he must now leave)
* By Heinrich Heine:
o Der Atlas ("Atlas": the singer, having wished for eternal happiness or eternal wretchedness, has the latter, and blames himself for the weight of sorrow, as heavy as the world, that he now bears)
o Ihr Bild ("Her image": the singer tells his beloved of how he dreamed (daydreamed?) that a portrait of her favoured him with a smile and a tear; but alas, he has lost her)
o Das Fischermädchen ("The fisher-maiden": the singer tries to sweet-talk a fishing girl into a romantic encounter, drawing parallels between his heart and the sea)
o Die Stadt ("The city": the singer is in a boat rowing towards the city where he lost the one he loved; it comes foggily into view)
o Am Meer ("By the sea": the singer tells of how he and his beloved met in silence beside the sea, and she wept; since then he has been consumed with longing — she has poisoned him with her tears)
o Der Doppelgänger ("The double": the singer looks at the house where his beloved once lived, and is horrified to see someone standing outside it in torment — it is, or appears to be, none other than himself, aping his misery of long ago)
* The last song based on a poem written by Johann Gabriel Seidl (1804 - 1875).
o Taubenpost ("Pigeon post"; the song that is often considered as a last lied that Schubert ever wrote. The song is included into a cycle by the first editor and is almost always included in modern performances)

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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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Red-Headed Ryan de Ryke

My apologies for the lack of posts over the last few days, but my internet service was down. After the Hottest Barihunk competition, I figured it's time to start looking at the barihunk bench. There are a number of major hunks emerging on the operatic scene and I want to shere them with you over the next week.

I recently received an email from someone who heard Ryan de Ryke in recital. They called him "tall, red-headed and someone you can't take your eyes off of." Well that got me googling pretty quick, so you be the judge.

De Ryke has appeared in a number of barihunks standards including Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream and our beloved Monteverdi and Mozart operas, which supply us with numerous barihunk images. He's rapidly establishing himself as an early music specialist and lieder recitalist of note, as witnessed from this beautiful clip of Schubert lieder.

De Ryke studied at the Britten-Pears Institute and his teachers have included Ian Partridge at the Royal Academy of Music and John Shirley-Quirk at the Peabody Conservatory.

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