Nine baritones to perform Schubert's Winterreise in one night!!!

Joa Helgesson, Reuben Walker and Seth Carico

Advent is being celebrated in Berlin this year with 24 singers performing Schubert's Winterreise, with each performing a different song. Tenors, mezzo-sopranos and sopranos will all be represented, as well as 9 amazing baritones. They include 2018 Barihunks Calendar model Joa Helgesson, along with Julian Arsenault, Reuben Walker, Julien Ségol, Stephen Bronk, Seth Carico, Allen Boxer, Markus Brück and Jason Steigerwalt.

The performance is on December 17th at Puccini's Toaster in Berlin and tickets are available online.

Here is the entire song cycle with performers.

Gute Nacht - Joa Helgesson
Die Wetterfahne - Katrin Le Provost
Gefrorene Tränen - Julien Ségol
Erstarrung - Julie Wyma
Der Lindenbaum - Rachel Fenlon
Wasserflut - Tyler Clarke
Auf dem Flusse - Ziad Nehme
Rückblick - Vera-Lotte Böcker
Irrlicht - Sarah Ring
Rast - Davia Bouley
Frühlingstraum - Julian Arsenault
Einsamkeit - Laura Atkinson
Die Post - Reuben Walker
Der greise Kopf - Stephen Bronk
Die Krähe - Sylvia Klein-Bronk
Letzte Hoffnung - Marie-Audrey Schatz
Im Dorfe - Seth Carico
Der stürmische Morgen - Robert Watson
Täuschung - Caitlin Redding
Der Wegweiser - Allen Boxer
Das Wirtshaus - Markus Brück
Mut! - Sally Drutman
Die Nebensonnen - Mary Osborne
Der Leiermann - Jason Steigerwalt

Joa Helgesson and Derek Chester from 2018 Barihunks Calendar/Photo Book

ONLY 26 DAYS LEFT TO ORDER 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 thin

Joa Helgesson truly suffers for his art in L'Orfeo

Joa Helgesson in L'Orfeo

No singer will ever be claim the statement "I really suffer for my art" after barihunk Joa Helgesson's performance of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the Malzfabrik in Berlin. The production was part of the Body Suspension Symposium, which focuses on the practice as an artform.

Berlin's symposium was the third one, following one in Oslo in 2012 and New York in 2015, all of which a co-production with Anchors Aweigh/SKIN.

"The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain... Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves." - Arthur Schopenhauer

A suspension is the act of suspending a human body from hooks that have been put through body piercings. These piercings are temporary and are performed just prior to the actual suspension. Body suspension is frequently used for spiritual purposes or for entertainment, most famously by the magician and illusionist Criss Angel.

Helgesson also appears in our 2018 Barihunks Calendar and Photo Book, but without the hooks!

Joa Helgesson and Derek Chester from 2018 Barihunks Calendar and 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!

Barihunks calendar and photo book now on sale!

Coverboy Jason Duika

Barihunks has released its 2018 calendar, which includes nineteen of opera's hottest singers, hailing from seven countries. Baritones and basses include Alexander Elliot, Brad Baron, Marco Vassalli, Malte Roesner, Cody Quattlebaum, Gianluca Margheri, Jason Duika, Joa Helgesson, Ken Mattice, Règis Mengus, Robert Brouwer, Sam Roberts-Smith, Thomas Weinhappel, Zacharias Niedzwiecki, Zachary James and Zachary Gordin. Most of our calendar ahave included one honorary hunkentenor, but we added three this year, including Derek Chester, Daniel Lopez and John Tibbetts. The calendar is available HERE.

Zacharias Niedzwiecki

Due to requests from our readers, we've added a Barihunks Photo Book, which includes numerous additional photos not included in the calendar. The 20-page photo book is available HERE.

All proceeds will go to promote baritones and musical commissions for low voice.

Reader submission: Joa Helgesson

Joa Helgesson

Joa Helgesson, is our latest "reader submission" and he was submitted by a regular attendee at the Göteborgs Opera. He studied voice at the University College of Opera in Stockholm and studied acting at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. After his vocal studies in Stockholm he participated in young artist programs ae the National Opera Studio in London and the International Opera Studio at the Zurich Opera House.

His roles have included Figaro in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Shaunard in Puccini's La boheme, Bill in Weill's Mahagonny, Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Francesco in Verdi's I Masnadieri and Arsamene in Handel's Xerxes.

Helgesson was awarded scholarships from institutions the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, Friends of Vadstena Academy and the Friends of Drottningholm Palace Theatre.

Joa Helgesson sings Largo al factotum:

He is currently performing Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Stadttheater in Flensburg, Germany. There are performances running through February 14th. Additional information and tickets are available online. As soon as that run is over, he takes on Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Performances run from February 15th to May 29th.