Grizzly Bearihunk: Placido Domingo

A special subspecies of Bearihunk is the Grizzly Bearihunk, the elder statesmen of the Bearihunk tribe.  This is often an aging opera star who, regardless of previous hairlessness, has grown more hirsute as the years go on.  Domingo, with his white beard, is technically a Polar Bearihunk, a genus of the Grizzlies.

When Domingo first splashed onto the opera scene in the 1960s, he was certainly a hunkentenor of the first order.

A full, wavy head of hair, strongly muscled arms that he was unafraid to show underneath his breastplates: here was a handsome man who, with his clear, beautiful, and virile voice, deserved the fame that still surrounds him.


And, unlike most Grizzly Bearihunks, he is still performing, singing this year at the Metropolitan Opera, Theatre du Chatelet, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and conducting at Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, and the MET.