Douglas Williams in Baroque-back opera

Sasha Waltz's Dido & Aeneas (left) & Douglas Williams

Choreographer Sasha Waltz is bringing her provocative and entertaining work back to opera when she takes on Monteverdi's Orfeo with the Dutch National Opera. Waltz had great success with Purcell's Dido & Aeneas in 2005 and 2011 with her brilliant combination of dancers and opera singers.

Orfeo promises to have a lot of singing and dancing and the cast is lead by one of the most popular barihunks on our site, Douglas Williams. Williams has made a specialty of baroque music, singing   Orcone in Alessandro Scarlatti’s Tigrane, Purcell's Apollo e Dafne, Aeneas in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis and Galatea and  Purcell’s King Arthur.

We can't imagine a singer better suited to a Sasha Waltz production. Performances are on September 3, 5 and 6 and tickets are available online.

Matt Trevino touring Ireland in Orfeo

Plutone (Matt Trevino) letting (Orfeo) Oliver Mercer sneak a peak at Euridice?

Opera Theatre Compnay, Ireland's premiere touring opera company, is opening Monteverdi's "Orfeo" tonight in Waterford at the Theatre Royal with and additional performance on Sunday. The production will then travel to Galway, Carlow, Limerick, Tallaght, Navan, Dublin, Bray, Mayo and wrapping up in Wexford on June 30th. Visit their website for additional information.

American barihunk Matt Trevino is singing Plutone/Caronte opposite the hunkentenor of Oliver Mercer.

You can watch an entire performance of the famous Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production of Orfeo under the baton of Nickolaus Harnoncourt from Zurich below.

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Shadi Torbey

Shadi Torbey was born in Sieburg, Germany of Belgian and Lebanese parents. He studied at the Opéra Studio of La Monnaie and with José van Dam at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth.

He has sung in a number of Barihunk operas, but not in the sexy roles, so finding pictures is difficult. He has performed in Rape of Lucretia (Collatinus), Don Giovanni (Masetto) and Orfeo (Caronte). He performs primarily in France, but we'll be keeping an eye on his career.

He has a CD of French songs available at:
http://www.amazon.com/French-Songs-Lionel-Lhote/dp/B000BVRMKE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1211079461&sr=8-1