Douglas Williams--BariGod!

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You've heard of Barihunks, well this 32 year-old guy is a BariGod! I just heard him perform with the Mark Morris dance group, and I just about came in my seat! No fair being both that talented and that gorgeous!

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Interestingly, I can't seem to get pictures of most of the dancers to come up on the net. Maybe Mark Morris makes sure they keep their pictures off the net so people will have to come to his shows to see them? Well, here's more on Douglas Williams. In addition to a well-established international career in concert music, the young bass-baritone DOUGLAS WILLIAMS is increasingly recognized for his acting talents on the opera stage. In this regard the New York Times noted his “superb sense of drama,” and the Seattle Times observed his “formidable stage presence.” In June 2012 he made is European opera debut in Alessandro Scarlatti’s Tigrane at the Opéra de Nice. Born in Connecticut, Douglas Williams studied singing, piano, trombone, dance, and theater from an early age. He then studied music at New England Conservatory and Yale University. In 2009 Douglas Williams made his debut with the Houston Symphony in Handel’s Messiah. The same season he made his European concert debut at the Paris Salle Pleyel in Purcell’s King Arthur conducted by Christophe Rousset with Les Talens Lyriques. He has also appeared in other prestigious halls such as Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, the Tanglewood Festival, the Washington National Cathedral, the Frankfurt’s Alte Oper and Stuttgart’s Mozart-Saal.

 

Douglas Williams has sung Bach under the direction of John Nelson, Bruno Weil, David Hoose, and Helmut Rilling, Sir David Wilcocks with Mozart and Haydn with Sir Neville Marriner, Mahler with Manfred Schreier. He is a frequent collaborator with British conductor Christopher Warren-Green, most recently for Handel’s Messiah with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

In Seattle, in 2009, he sang under the musical direction of Stephen Stubbs in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria in a celebrated production directed by William Kentridge with the Handspring Puppet Company of South Africa. In the 2011-2012 season he participated in the creation of It Happens Like This at Tanglewood, a new stage work by Charles Wuorinen, Pulitzer Prize winner. Under the direction of Brad Lubman he reprised the role in the premiere at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. At the Brooklyn Academy of Music he sang the role of Compère in Four Saints in Three Acts by Virgil Thomson in the production of Mark Morris and conducted by Stefan Asbury. Since his debut with the Boston Early Music Festival in 2003, he participated in many productions under the musical direction of Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs: In 2010, he sang Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell at Jordan Hall in Boston. From 2009 to 2011 he performed Polyphemus in Acis and Galatea by Handel in the production of Gilbert Blin performed in Boston, Kansas City, Seattle, Vancouver, and New York.

Under the musical direction of Simon Carrington, Douglas Williams sings the role of Jesus in Bach’s Johannes-Passion recorded by the Yale Schola Cantorum, described as “astonishing” by Early Music Review, and as a soloist in the Vespers of Heinrich Biber on a recording of the Yale Schola Cantorum considered “lively and sensitive” by Goldberg Magazine. He can also be heard on the recording of Lully’s Psyché with the Boston Early Music Festival, nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording of 2008.

The 2012-2013 season will bring more collaborations with Mark Morris for Mr. Williams, as well as debut performances with the baroque orchestra Tafelmusik in Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato, and Messiah.

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Height: 6' 3"

Weight: 186 lbs

Chest: 40"

Waist: 32"

Shoe: 12.0

Hair color: Brown

Eye color: Blue

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Another Barihunk, David Wannen:

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How about barihunk Gianluca Margheri?

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I can't get a shirtless picture of him, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't throw barihunk Theo Hoffman out of bed...

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Borja Quiza is kinda cute:

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For those of you who like redheads, there's Andrew Garland:

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Dan Kempson & Matthew Morris

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Christiaan Smith-Kotlarek

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Christiaan recently played Schaunard in La Bohème with Kentucky Opera and Joseph DeRocher in Dead Man Walking with the Modern American Music Project and was Papageno cover in Die Zauberflöte with Music Academy of the West. He will be an Emerging Artist with Virginia Opera in spring of 2014. Jake Heggie invited Christiaan to sing on his Composer Salon in March of 2012 at Opera America in New York. Together, they performed "That Moment On" from Heggie's Pieces of 9/11, written with Gene Scheer, who was present at the event. With Madison Opera, Christiaan played Christiano in Un ballo in maschera and Mr. Jenks in The Tender Land. He spent the 2011 and 2012 summer seasons as an Ash Lawn Opera Young Artist, singing Papageno in Mozart's Magic Piccolo, Tommy in The Music Man, and Un Ufficiale in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. In 2009 he was a Des Moines Metro Opera apprentice artist, 2008 saw him as a soloist with the Madison Early Music Festival, and in summer of 2007 he toured northeastern Italy singing Marco in Gianni Schicchi with La Musica Lirica

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Looks like you can even train with him if you live in the Big Apple!

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All right. Time for our bonus hunk, 22 year-old Aussie from Sydney, Gene Murphy:

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Oh, no. I feel another song coming on...

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[Samai139]

Lovely way to begin my Sunday Morn---learnt what a Barihunk was---thanks for that.

My favourite hunk has to be the Aussie---he is just FINE.

[bigvalboy]

All very nice Unicorn....but I of course liked the bonus stud.

 

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