Nathan Gunn
Nathan Gunn (born 1970, South Bend, Indiana)[1] is a baritone opera singer from the United States.
He has appeared in many of world's well-known opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Seattle Opera, Dallas Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Opera, Mostly Mozart Festival, Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Paris Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Glyndebourne Festival, and the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels.
While he is justly famous for his vocal prowess and acting, Nathan Gunn has received almost more fame for his physique, a peculiar feat for an opera singer.[2] In 2008, he was featured in People magazine's list of "The Sexiest Men Alive."[3]
His many roles include:
- Title role in Billy Budd
- Title role in Hamlet
- Lancelot in Camelot
- Guglielmo in Così fan tutte
- Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia
- The Count in Le nozze di Figaro
- Marcello in La bohème
- Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos
- Papageno in Die Zauberflöte
- Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles
- Prince Andrei in War and Peace
- Valentin in Faust
- Riolobo in Florencia en el Amazonas
- Clyde in An American Tragedy
- Buzz Aldrin in Man on the Moon by Jonathan Dove
- Created the role of Father Cayetano Delaura in Love and Other Demons (2008)
He was also appointed a tenured professor of voice at University of Illinois, beginning in the Fall semester of 2007. His wife, Julie Jordan Gunn, who holds a doctorate in accompaniment from University of Illinois, was also appointed an associate professor in accompaniment at the University of Illinois.
He will star as the great Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in the Barney and Friends episode "Galileo's New Telescope".
In May 2010 he will play the role of the title character's husband Paul in the world premiere of Amelia, a newly-commissioned work by Daron Hagen, at the Seattle Opera.
References
- ^ The Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center. Nathan Gunn, Baritone
- ^ Opera barihunks hit a muscular note
- ^ People Magazine's sexiest men alive
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