American barihunk Matt Trevino has won the Austin Critics’ Table Award for his performance in Michael Nyman's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" at the Austin Lyric Opera.
In its 16th year, the Austin Critics’ Table is an informal group of arts critics from the American-Statesman and the Austin Chronicle that annually recognizes outstanding achievement in the arts. This year’s awards recognize events between May 1, 2010 and April 30, 2011.
Trevino is next scheduled to sing at the Nashville Opera in Verdi's "La Traviata" in October.
There are some roles that we suspect will never make it onto Barihunks, like Falstaff. It's just hard to imagine anyone making that particular role sexy. We have our abundance of Escamillos, Zurgas, Billy Budds and Don Giovannis, so we're always looking for the unusual. We were toying with posting Simon Keenlyside's Rigoletto at Welsh National Opera, but we realized that even with one of our favorite barihunks, it was a stretch.
However, we did find this clip of Matthew Treviño as Sparafucile from the same opera. We were blown away by how searingly sexy he is as the evil assasin in this clip from Act 3. The performance appears to be from a recent production at the San Antonio Opera. We're fairly certain that he's the first Sparafucile to appear on this site.
Treviño now heads to Austin Lyric Opera to perform in Michael Nyman's chamber opera "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat."
