Thomas Meglioranza to perform Schubert's Winterreise

Reiko Uchida and Thomas Meglioranza (photo: Christopher Greenleaf)

American barihunk Thomas Meglioranza will join pianist Reiko Uchida for a performance of Schubert's Winterreise on Sunday, October 7th at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY (about 90 minutes north of NYC). The duo collaborated on a 2007 recording of Schubert songs that includes classics like Sehnsucht and Die Einsame. 

Last season Meglioranza performed an all-Hugo Wolf recital at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, as well as role of Lord Henry in Lowell Liebermann's The Picture of Dorian Gray with Odyssey Opera, Saint John in Louis Karchin's Jane Eyre with the Center for Contemporary Opera, and Handel's Messiah at Saint Thomas Church in New York City. He made his debut with the New York New Music Ensemble singing James Primosch's Dark the Star, and Ars Lyrica Houston singing J.C.F. Bach's solo cantata, Pygmalion.

Thomas Meglioranza sings Gute Nacht from Winterreise:

A native New Yorker, Meglioranza is of Thai, Italian and Polish heritage. He graduated from Grinnell College and the Eastman School of Music and is a Visiting Artist in Voice at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. He was a winner of the Walter W. Naumburg, Concert Artists Guild, Franz Schubert/Music of Modernity, and Joy In Singing competitions.

Derek Chester & Marco Vassalli from the 2018 Barihunks Photo Book

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!

Guillaume Andrieux appearing in Eötvös opera

Guillaume Andrieux in Philip Glass' Les Enfants Terribles

French barihunk Guillaume Andrieux, who we introduced to readers in a performance of Benoît Mernier’s La Dispute, will perform Roger in Peter Eötvös' opera Le Balcon from May 20-24 at the Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet in Paris.

Le Balcon, Peter Eötvös' second opera, is based on Jean Genet’s play of the same name. He is best known in the United States for his opera Angels in America, which starred barihunk Thomas Meglioranza in New York and David Adam Moore in Fort Worth and Los Angeles.

Albane Carrère & Guillaume Andrieux

The composer wrote of the piece, "With Genet, one can take it literally; a revolution rages in the streets, the Palais Royal is blown up, while the customers in the specially equipped salons of the brothel 'Le Balcon' are dressed with the properties and costumes of major social positions: They want to become a bishop, judge, general, even if for only half an hour. The girls help them, and Madame collects the money for this dubious pleasure. The piece is a wonderful, constantly sparkling role play, a theatre within the theatre...My music sometimes 'is also dressed' with 'French-style manners,' but most important to me was to let the marvelously frivolous, poetic language of Genet remain understandable. I therefore used many grotesque, comedy-like cabaret-music elements, and sometimes my music is close to the French chanson, with Fréhel, Jacques Brel, Yves Montand, Leo Ferré being my models."

In December, Andrieux can be seen as Raoul de Gardefeu in Offenbach's La Vie parisienne at Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg.

Three New Barihunks

Pablo Siqueiros

We recently asked readers to submit names of singers who they think belong on barihunks. We received about thirty submissions and we're going to post a number of them, but not all of them. The submissions ranged from "How did we miss that guy?" to "WTF!!!" Two submissions belonged on an adult site and not an opera site. [BTW, we don't post nudes unless it's part of a production]. A number of submissions have already appeared on this site. Submissions came from five continents, with the United States, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Australia and Canada leading the way. 

This site is dedicated to promoting singers and singing, so we hope that you enjoy learning about the emerging talent and the singers working on smaller stages, as well the established singers in the major opera houses.

Here are three newcomers to the site to start us off.

  

Thomas Meglioranza

40-year-old Thomas Meglioranza was born to an Italian-Polish father and a Thai mother.. He began taking voice lessons at Grinnell College, and earned a MM from the Eastman School of Music. He is an alum of the training programs at the Aspen, Tanglewood, Bowdoin, Pacific Music Festivals and the Ravinia Festival's Steans Institute, and has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival.

He was a winner of the 2002 Joy in Singing Competition, the 2002 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the 2003 Franz Schubert/Music of Modernity Competition in Graz, and the 2005 Walter Naumburg Competition. In 2009 he was appointed Visiting Artist in Voice at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He sings a great deal of contemporary music and is particularly associated with the music of Milton Babbitt, Aaron Jay Kernis, Charles Wuorinen, Derek Bermel, Jorge Martín, and John Adams.
His operatic repertoire includes Mozart's Count Almaviva and Don Giovanni, as well as many roles in modern work. You can check out his blog HERE.

Gary Moss

Baritone Gary Moss works as a voice instructor for the Music Theatre program at Viterbo University in Wisconsin.  Gary has performed throughout the United States and Italy with companies such as Santa Fe Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Toledo Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Washington East Opera, La Musica Lirica, Ohio Light Opera, and has toured with San Francisco Opera.  

Equally at home in Opera, Oratorio, Operetta and Musical Theater, Gary has performed over 100 roles including Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Ford in Falstaff, Prince Edwin in The Gipsy Princess, Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance (as well as 6 other Gilbert & Sullivan roles), and Jud Fry in Oklahoma!.  Gary can be heard on various recordings on the Albany, Newport, and Naxos labels, in The Gondoliers, Bluebeard, Gimpel the Fool, Mother and Son, and La Verbena de la Paloma. 

Gary has taught numerous courses including Studio Voice, Vocal Pedagogy, Sight Singing/Ear Training, English, French, Italian, and German Diction, and has directed many Opera Workshop productions.  He holds a Bachelors of Music degree from the University of Utah, and a Masters of Music and DMA from The University of Michigan.
 

Pablo Siqueiros

Pablo Siqueiros is a lyric-baritone pursuing a Bachelors Degree in Music Performance at San Diego State University. He made his opera debut at SDSU in a production of "The Mikado" by Gilbert and Sullivan where he played the leading role of "Ko-Ko". This fall, he performed the role of "Bob" in SDSU's production of "The Old Maid and the Thief" by Gian Carlo Menotti. Recently, he was announced winner of the SDSU Symphony Orchestra Soloist Competition and was awarded 2nd Place at the Virginia Hawk Vocal Scholarship Auditions.

Siqueiros is also a chamber vocalist, performing with the San Diego-based chamber choir SACRA/PROFANA where he has been featured as a soloist. He also currently performs with Live It Up! Song and Dance Company in Palm Springs, CA, where he performs fully-choreographed popular music and musical theater numbers.

Formerly, he was assistant to the director of the choral program at Chula Vista High School, School for the Creative and Performing Arts where the choirs received numerous awards in Southern California as well as their first National Championship. You can check out his audio clips on his website.
 

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