A Naked Barihunk to Ring in the New Year: Laurent Alvaro

[Photos from www.laurentalvaro.fr]

I can't think of a better way to ring in the New Year than with a barihunk in the buff. Also, a new year seems like an appropriate way to introduce viewers (readers?) to a new barihunk.

Meet Laurent Alvaro, who was Seth Brendle in the second cast of The Fly at Chatelet. My understanding is that he only performed one night, leaving the rest of the performances to Daniel Okulitch, a favorite on this site. Okulitch also performed every night in L.A.

Alvaro is a 36-year-old French baritone who performs primarily in France. He has appeared in other Barihunk operas, most notably Thais and Midsummer Night's Dream. From the pictures on his website, he's apparently not afraid to show a little skin.

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Szot on The View; Gunn on Kennedy Center Honors

Barihunks takes great pride in the fact that we discovered Paulo Szot long before Broadway. It is thrilling to see the enormous success that he's had in South Pacific. Word is that he left the show to return to opera in 2009. It is also refreshing to see how casually he "came out" and how it had no effect on his career. This is a guy who can cross over to Broadway with amazing ease.

New Yorker reviewer John Lahr perfectly captured Szot by describing him as having, "...a resounding, creamy bass voice and a warm masculine presence."

Speaking of barihunks who can cross over easily to Broadway musicals, Nathan Gunn will appear on "The Kennedy Center Honors" tonight on CBS. This year, they are honoring Morgan Freeman, Barbra Streisand, Twyla Tharp, George Jones, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey.

Gunn will be singing "Somewhere" from West Side Story with Kelli O'Hara as part of the tribute to Barbra Streisand.

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Simon Keenlyside: "Marrying music and theater"

I don't think that I could say it better than Joyce DiDonato, who at the end of this clip says, "That right there is a lesson in marrying music and theater."

One doesn't see anything from Pagliacci on this site too often. Partially because it's hardly a barihunks opera and, frankly, I've never liked the opera. But Simon Keenlyside can make anything exciting. Someone recently emailed me enthralled with Keenlyside's "animal magnetism." This is a guy who can dominate a stage like the great singing actors of our time, Leonie Rysanek, Bryn Terfel, Maria Callas or Raina Kabaiwanska.

He also happens to be the hottest barihunk over 40. Period. Wouldn't he make a hot James Bond? Maybe Jake Heggie can write the opera.

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Hot Schrott profiled on Singular City

Barihunks fans all know that Erwin Schrott is married to sexy diva Anna Netrebko and that they recently had a baby. So it seemed a little ironic that SingularCity.com is running a two-part interview with Hot Schrott (http://www.singularcity.com/december-8-14-2008/173-opera-gets-hot-for-schrott--part-1).

The site describes itself as a place "...where unmarried adults in Los Angeles can come together and celebrate the benefits and positive aspects of the single lifestyle."

We're a little confused, but we're not upset about it since they're running beautiful photos of Hot Shrott, like the one above. Hopefully, the pictures for Part 2 of the interview with be a little more salacious. After all, isn't that what singles want to see?

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A Midsummer Night's "Dreamy" Cast at La Scala

[Top photo Okulitch in The Fly; center photo, Okulitch in Dead man Walking; Bottom photo by David Gribbin of David Adam Moore]

If you don't have summer travel plans yet, you might want to consider booking a flight to Milan between June 6-17. The Teatro alla Scala will be performing Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with two barihunks, David Adam Moore and Daniel Okulitch. The rest of the cast is pretty impressive as well, with countertenor David Daniels, sopranos Rosemary Joshua and Erin Wall, and Andrew Davis in the pit.

You can visit the La Scala website at www.teatroallascala.org.

For those of you who missed it the first time, I'm reposting the picture of Daniel Okultich from The Fly. It was the most viewed picture on this site over the Christmas holidays, so most of you were being naughty, not nice.

Okulitch can next be seen in Vancouver singing Escamillo in Carmen. For more information, click here: http://www.vancouveropera.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=184&Itemid=15. David Adam Moore is next performing Zurga in The Pearl Fishers at the Seattle Opera. For more information, click here: http://www.seattleopera.org/tickets/2008-2009/fishers/artists.aspx.

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What every Barihunks fan wants to find under his or her tree

[Photo from avaoperablog.typepad.com/avaoperablog]

How would you like to look under your tree and find Ben Wager and Ryan Kuster? These guys are two of the hottest young barihunks and immensely talented singers.

Merry Christmas!

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A holiday treat: Ildebrando d'Arcangelo with Diana Damrau

I figured what would be a better holiday treat than the glorious Diana Damrau joining forces with barihunk Ildebrando d'Arcangelo in "din dinning" and "don donning" Christmas with their account of "Si a caso madama" from Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.

May Santa bring you everything that you wished for.

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