Brad Baron singing, directing, writing, blogging (and posing)

Brad Baron and some of his selfies from social media

We finally got some video from barihunk Brad Baron's graduation recital at the Louisiana State University School of Music's Recital Hall on April 22, 2016. Baron graduated from Princeton University with an AB in English and Certificates in Theatre and Vocal Performance recently received his Masters of Music at Louisiana State University. 

Brad Baron sings Finzi's "Let Us Garlands Bring":

Brad Baron sings Schubert's "Erlkönig":

Brad Baron sings Poulenc's "Hôtel":

The multi-talented singer, also works as an actor, writer, playwright, blogger (Life of a Gay Pirate), gamer commentator, librettist and now director.

His play Last Ditch Playlist, which he's been developing for three years will be presented in a fully staged production at the Dixon Place MainStage in New York City on August 18th at 7:30 pm. He'll be directing the piece, as well. According to the theater website, "Last Ditch Playlist is an ode to the memory of a unraveling gay romance. Aaron and Wes’ joy and pain are evoked with sweeping sincerity in this new stage work, peeling away layers of the relationship as it is replayed ‘on shuffle’ in gripping scenes of intimacy, recollections, phone calls, internet chats, and lyricism."

The men of Brad Baron's play Last Ditch Playlist

In recent years he has contributed works to the New Jersey One Minute Play Festival, the Rainbow Festival with the La Strada Ensemble Theater, Luna Stage’s Annual Short Play Festival, the New Playwrights Series at The Villagers Theater, and the Gay Play Series with the Ringwald Theatre, where his work Homochondria was presented. He is currently working on a short comic libretto for Coffee Companion with composer Marc Hoffeditz and collaborators Esha Datta and Jennifer Peterson.

As a singer, he was an Encouragement Award winner in the Violetta DuPont Competition, a finalist in Classical Idol 8, a semi-finalist in the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio Solo Competition, and a semi-finalist in the Mildred Miller International Voice Competition. He has performed at the Des Moines Metro Opera, Bronx Opera Company and Ohio Light Opera. He will be joining Opera Memphis this Fall as an Artist in Residence, where he will be performing Antonio in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro and The Pirate King in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance during their 2016-2017 season.

We first got to know Brad Baron through Twitter and his entertaining tweets @BaronAsInRed.

Florian Spiess' sexy selfie for Rameau's Les Indes galantes

Master of the selfie: Florian Spiess as Bellone (left) and in Fanciulla (right)

We introduced Austrian bass-barihunk Florian Spiess back in 2014 when he was performing in Handel's rarity Almira in Hamburg. He's returning to the 18th century again on Sunday, April 3rd as Bellone in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Indes galantes at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. We had to share his backstage selfie that he posted on Facebook and encourage readers to LIKE his fan page, where he frequently shares sexy selfies.

The ballet/opera is having a bit of revival in recent years and this premiere is a co-production with 
the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse and the Opera National de Bordeaux. Regular readers will remember our post about a rather risque production at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse that involved a bit of nudity and a shirtless Vittorio Prato. The Munich Opera Festival will present the opera this summer with barihunk Tareq Nazmi as Osman and Goran Juric as Bellone.

The piece will be directed and choreographed by Laura Scozzi who returns to Nürnberg After successful production of Mozart's The Magic Flute and  Rossini's Il viaggio a Reims. The opera will be conducted by French baroque specialist Paul Agnew. Tickets are available online.

Florian Spiess sings Colline's aria Vecchia zimarra from La Bohème:

Spiess' vocal training began at the Tyrolean Conservatory where he performed in Guys and Dolls, Into the Woods and as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni. He continued his studies at the Vienna Music University including one year on a German-Austrian Richard Wagner Foundation scholarship.

He was a member of the ensembles at the Landestheater Linz and Volkstheater Rostock, but joined the Hamburg State Opera during the 2013-14 season. In Hamburg, he has performed Colline in Puccini's La Bohème, Biterolf in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Radames in Verdi's Aida, Zuniga in Bizet's Carmen and Raymondo in Handel‘s Almira.

Donovan Singletary's sexy and devilish Mefistofele

Donovan Singletary

Barihunk Donovan Singletary is opening up in Boito's Mefistofele tonight with the Knoxville Opera, which will mark the first professional performance of the opera in Tennessee. There will also be a matinee performance on October 11th. Tickets are available online.

The company is touting that the production will include over 200 on the stage, inlcuding a 50-member onstage orchestra and over 100 choristers. The already fit 32-year-old Singletary, clearly hit the gym to tone up, as the director has him showing off his magnificent torso in the show. The cast also includes Cody Austin as Fauts, Julia Lima as Margherita, Ryan Ford as Wagner and Allison Deady as Marta.


The opera, which is based on Johann von Goethe adaptation of the Faustian legend was written in 1868, but only found success in the repertory after the composer made revisions to the opera.

Make sure to check out this great profile on Donovan Singletary from the Knoxville News-Sentinel. 

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