We've been eagerly awaiting more pictures or video of Gabriel Bermudez since we first discovered him almost two years ago. He now has a YouTube site and although he doesn't allow the embedding of videos, the links work.
You can watch this stunning barihunk and view his manly chest in a performance of Iphigénie en Tauride HERE or HERE.
Johan Rydh was born in 1967 in Järfälla, Sweden and made his debut as a boy soprano at The Stockholm Opera House in Carmen. He went on to study at the Stockholm Music High School and "Opera Studio 67" and graduated from Gothenburg Opera University in 1995.
He has performed primarily in Scandinavia and has become known as a Gluck specialist. He recently completed a run in Menotti's "The Consul" at the Folkoperan in Stockholm. He has performed a number of barihunk roles, including Escamillo in Carmen, Don Giovanni, Achilla in Giulio Cesare in Egitto and Tarquinius in The Rape of Lucretia.
The sexy pictures above are from him performing as Achilla. One thing we know for sure, we like him in a tee shirt.
The Hamburg State Opera is home to two of our favorite barihunks, Wilhelm Schwinghammer and Alexander Tsymbalyuk. Needless to say, we keep a close eye on what's happening on their stage. We were thrilled to see that Hamburg is performing Iphigenie en Tauride with another of our favorite hunks.
Christopher Maltman is performing Oreste in Iphigenie en Tauride with hunkentenor Toby Spence as Pylade. Perhaps neither is showing us as much skin as the cast in the recent Armide in Berlin, but it's a total joy to watch Maltman onstage with his raw sexuality, especially when paired with Toby Spence.
The reputation of directors working in German opera companies is beyond mockery. Their obsession with sex, fetishism and leather, and their penchant for shock value is a running joke in opera circles. I'm beginning to wonder what type of psychological damage WW II created on the German psyche.
Spanish director Calixto Bieito has taken it to another level with his production of Gluck's "Armide" at the Komische Oper in Berlin. I'm not quite sure what to make of this production, which is usually about vengeance, magic, love, fulfillment and abandonment.
Bieito has made it about sex, obsession and more sex. One German paper called it porno-opera. I'm not certain who is in these pictures, but I think that the naked guy is tenor Peter Lodahl. I've got to believe that one of those bare butts or danglers is a baritone, so these photos have earned a spot on Barihunks.
