Zachary Gordin to perform at iCadenza Future of Music Festival!

Zachary Gordin

 

On August 19th, American barihunk Zachary Gordin will be performing at the first annual iCadenza Future of Music Festival! in Los Angeles. The four-day festival consists of three concerts by groundbreaking young artists alongside other events and lectures featuring discourse on the new directions of the classical music industry and centered on the question, “On Our Own Terms: Where do artists want to take the future of classical music?” 

 

The festival will take place at The Colburn School, known as an innovative institution shaping the next generation of artists. The three concerts will be featuring dynamic pianists, opera singers, and members of the Israeli Chamber Project – an ensemble comprised of top Israeli-born soloists.

Additional information is available at www.icadenzafestival.com.

Gordin will also be giving one of his popular masterclasses on August 20th from 3-5 PM, also at the Colburn School in downtown LA. This event is free and open to the public. 

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Barihunk Duo at Gotham Chamber Opera

Barihunks Craig Verm & Steven LaBrie

The Gotham Chamber Opera in collaboration with the Tectonic Theater Project is presenting Xavier Montsalvatge's operatic telling of the children's classic El gato con botas (Puss in Boots). The performances run from October 2-10 at the New Victory Theater, 209 W. 42nd Street in New York City.

This world premiere performance will feature barihunks Craig Verm and Steven LaBrie alternating roles. The work is an operatic version of the classic children’s tale in which a charismatic and cunning cat promises a poor miller everlasting love and fortune. All he needs to pull off his ruse are a hat, a cape, a pair of boots, and his wits.

L to R: Craig Verm, Jonothon Lyons, Stefano Brancato, Ginger Costa-Jackson

The opera will be directed by Moisés Kaufman, founder of Tectonic Theater Project and conducted by Neal Goren, founder of Gotham Chamber Opera. The production also features the London puppet masters Blind Summit Theatre, which dazzled audiences at The Met in Anthony Minghella’s "Madama Butterfly."

Fans of this site will recall that the Gotham Chamber Opera presented Haydn's "L’isola disabitata (Desert Island) with some extremely sexy pictures of a shirtless Tom Corbeil.

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Doug Carpenter in Miss Saigon

[Photo by Ken Jacques]

Douglas Carpenter created a sensation on this site when we posted a picture of him eating a cupcake. Fans will be pleased to know that the upcoming barihunk has been cast in Miss Saigon at the Moonlight Amphitheater in Vista, California.  Readers may remember his critically acclaimed portrayals of Skip in "Life Could Be A Dream" and Lancelot in Camelot at the Pasadena Playhouse.

Performances of Miss Saigon run from September 8-25 at start at 7:30 pm. Tickets can be purchased at the VisTix Ticket Office at (760) 724-2110 or online at moonlightstage.com.

[The famous cupcake shot, Miss Saigon poster & a current headshot]

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Free Ticket Give Away

Barihunks is giving away three sets of tickets to the first three people who can identify the two singers in this picture. In order of responses, you can choose from one of these three performances at the Ft. Worth Opera.

Send your response to barihunks@gmail.com

Friday May 28, 2010 – The Elixir of Love

Saturday May 29, 2010 – Premiere of Before Night Falls

Friday June 4, 2010 – Don Giovanni

Jesse Blumberg's Haiti Relief Concert

Jesse Blumberg, one of our favorite singers, will be performing a concert to benefit the Haiti relief effort. If you're in the New York area on Friday, March 26th make sure to stop by and hear a great singer in support of a wonderful cause.

Blumberg will be joined by soprano Deborah Selig and pianist Cameron Stowe at Calvary Church at 209 East 16th Street beginning at 8pm. The suggested donation is $25.

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Kepler With Martin Achrainer Opens at BAM

[Photo of Martin Achrainer as Kepler by Jack Vartoogian/BAM]

Kepler review from the L.A. Times blog.

Read the review from the NY Times.

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Ramin Karimloo: Baritone?

We will never pass up the opportunity to post the picture of shirtless barihunk, even if we're quibbling with some relevant fact. First, the headline of the Toronto Globe & Mail article refers to Ramin Karimloo as a baritone. We went onto his site and it was a 3-0 vote that he's a tenor. But for the moment. let's trust his agent and the Canadian press. (Listen for yourself at: http://www.raminkarimloo.net/home.html.

Then there is the small matter of this site being dedicated to opera singers. The closet Karimloo has gotten to an opera performance is a few gigs on stage singing Gilbert & Sullivan. He is currently Andrew Lloyd Webber's handpicked choice to star in his follow up to Phantom of the Opera - Love Never Dies.

We decided that we could quibble all we wanted about the facts, but at the end of the day we decided to post these delicious pictures. Barihunks readers can decide on their own if he's an operatic baritone. One thing I'm sure we can all agree on, he's one of the hottest men on stage today!

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Ales Jenis

[Top Photo: Don Giovanni - Bottom Photo: From the House of the Dead]

The 30-year-old Slovakian barihunk Ales Jenis seems to enjoy singing in limits degrees of undress. He sings a number of barihunk roles including Don Giovanni and Papageno.

Other recent performances include his debute at the Wexford Festival (Die drei Pintos) and subsequently at the Teatro Lirico Cagliari (Alfonso and Estrella), the Grand Théâtre de Genève (House of the Dead), the Oper St. Gallen (Onegin), the Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile (Lohengrin), the National Theatre Bratislava (Onegin, Lucia), the Opéra d’Avignon (Werther), the Wiener Volksoper (Butterfly) and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (Butterfly).