No sooner did our post go up about the barihunk duo in Sarasota Opera's La bohème when we received a message about Hans Tashjian, a bass in their young artist program. He'll be part of the program for both the fall and winter and will be perform with the chorus for Verdi's Aida, Beethoven's Fidelio, and Verdi's La Battaglia di Legnano.
I'm currently in Sarasota for the fall season with Sarasota Opera. I'll be returning as a young artist again this upcoming winter season. I'll also be the bass soloist in the Bach Magnificat at The Cathedral of St John the Divine's Christmas Concert in NYC
Hans Tashjian
Hans Tashjian graduated with a Bachelors
of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon
University and a Masters from the Manhattan School of Music.While in school, he performed Baron Ochs
in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, Plagio in the American premiere of I
Due Figaro, Sarastro in Mozart's Die
Zauberflöte, Truffaldin in Richard Strauss' Ariadne
auf Naxos, and Pooh-Bah in Gilbert & Sullivan's The
Mikado. He has also appeared as Méphistophélès in Gounod's Faust with the New York Lyric Opera Theatre, Seneca in Monteverdi's L’Incoronazione di Poppea with dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, a
soloist with the Bach Choir of
Pittsburgh and performed with the Bach Music
Festival of Canada.
On December 12th, he'll appear as the bass soloist with the Cathedral Church of Saint John Devine for their Cathedral Christmas Concert. The concert will include Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat and carols by Benjamin Britten, John Rutter and Gregg Smith.
More information about the Sarasota Opera season is available online.
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Yesterday we featured barihunks out in the English countryside, so it's only appropriate that we head up into the Colorado Rockies today. In beautiful Crested Butte, Colorado a trio of barihunks is also taking up Mozart. At the Crested Butte Music Festival, Philip Cutlip (Papageno), Keith Miller (Sarastro) and Marcell Bakonyi (Speaker) are performing the Magic Flute at the famed ski resort.
Keith Miller & Philip Cutlip
We've featured Cutlip and Miller extensively on this site in the past, but Bokonyi is a new singer for us.Bakonyiwas born in 1980 in Győr, Hungary. He
studied voice at the Leo-Weiner Conservatory of Music in Budapest, and
later at the Hochschule für Musik, Stuttgart with Professor Julia
Hamari where he also attended classes in Lieder singing.
Since 2009 he has been a member of the ensemble of the Landestheater
Salzburg where he sang the roles of Bartolo and Figaro in Le Nozze di
Figaro, as well as Kaspar in Der Freischütz, Angelotti in Tosca and
Bacco in Arianna, Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore and Leporello in Don Giovanni.
Crested Butte is best known for their international film festival, skiing and as the birthplace of mountain biking. The Music Festival presents diverse array of music, dance and opera. This year's lineup includes Broadway tunes, bluegrass, jazz, sacred, chamber, symphonic and operatic fare. There is also a young artist training program headed by tenor Marcello Giordano. The Magic Flute will run from July 25-29. Visit their website for additional information.
In a sign that barihunks are being viewed as sex symbols more widely, Keith Miller was asked to model for this Suburu ad and we think he looks pretty hot.
