Twitter Submission Phil Gault

Barihunk Phil Gault came to us via this Twitter message

Twitter is becoming an increasingly popular way for us to discover new barihunks. The latest was the message from "Mike D" that read, "Hey @Barihunks check out my buddy @PhilGault: RT "Oh - have some @ClubNoir pictures!"

So, we checked him out. Lo and behold, here he is on Barihunks.

The pictures were part of a Valentine's Day concert put on by the Scottish Opera at the burlesque Club Noir in Glasgow. Other singers included bass Jonathan Sedgwick and tenor Adam Magee.

Beach Barihunk Phil Gault

The Welsh baritone has performed internationally in roles ranging from the eponymous Macbeth and Barber of Seville, to the Count, Dandini, King Roger, Escamillo, and indeed Carmen in the critically acclaimed all-male CarMen.

He has performed with Scottish Opera, Buxton Festival Opera, Northampton Festival Opera, and Secret Opera, is principal baritone for Opera on a Shoestring, co-founded Black Sheep Opera, and is a Samling and Crear artist. Other roles include Nabucco, Tarquinius, Junius, Nick Shadow, Angelotti, Morales, El Dancaïro, and Chao Lin (A Night at the Chinese Opera).

Gault has performed recitals in the Usher Hall, the Wales Millennium Centre, the Riverfront Centre and Paxton House, and is an aLuMNus of Yehudi Menuhin’s Live Music Now! scheme. His song repertory includes Dichterliebe, Chansons Gaillardes, Songs of Travel, Italienisches Liederbuch, and A Shropshire Lad, and his oratorio repertoire ranges from Carmina Burana and A Sea Symphony to the Bach Passions and cantatas, in venues from the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and the Usher Hall, to the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.

TV includes live broadcast recordings of the award nominated Macbeth and Barbwr Sefil with Opra Cymru, and audio includes Breathe Freely (Wagstaff), A Brontë Mass (Wilby), and A Breathless Alleluia (Wilby), both with the Black Dyke Band.

Duncan Rock in sexy Carmen, roadshow of opera highlights and Barihunks calendar

Duncan Rock as Morales and backstage photographing his temporary tattoos

When Calixto Bieito is directing an opera one can almost guarantee that it will be a sexually charged production. The current run of his Carmen at the English National Opera is no exception. The production is filled with sexual tension, sexual confidence, sexual power, sexual obsessiveness and sexy singers. It even has some male nudity and simulated fellatio to ensure that it's an echt Bieito production.

Leading the back is our 2013 Barihunk Charity Calendar sensation Duncan Rock as Morales. Joining him on stage as Escamillo is Leigh Melrose, who has been regularly featured on this site, as well.

  Carmen from English National Opera on Vimeo.

The production opened on Wednesday, November 21st and runs through December 9th at the London Coliseum. Tickets and additional performance information is available online. Also playing at the ENO is Ralph Vaughan William's masterpiece The Pilgrim's Progress, which he was obsessed with for much of his life.

Rock, who created a sensation with his performance of Don Giovanni at Heaven in London  is a graduate of the National Opera Studio. He also holds a Masters Degree in Music and Opera from London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he received a full scholarship from the Independent Opera foundation.

Duncan Rock in the 2013 Barihunks Calendar

After his run at ENO, Duncan Rock will join the Scottish Opera for a show of opera highlights that will visit Bathgate, Peebles, Hawick, Stranraer, Tarbert, Bowmore, Killin, Castlebay, Balivanich, Torridon, Durness, Inverness, Banchory, Birnam, Strathmiglo, Crawfordjohn & Rutherglen. He'll be joined by tenor heartthrob Nicky Spence, fellow baritone Gary Griffiths, mezzo Katie Grosset and soprano Eleanor Dennis. Tickets go on sale on November 26.

Duncan Rock appears in both our regular sized calendar and special oversized edition. All proceeds from the calendar go to support young artists and young artist programs. Buy your calendar today and enjoy Duncan Rock and thirteen other barihunks all year long. 

The regular size calendar is available here:

The oversize calendar is available here: