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Nathan Gunn

Nathan Gunn is turning heads everywhere he goes. He is a baritone for the Metropolitan Opera, even though he may look like a GQ cover model. Join us while we meet Nathan, learn more about his musical tastes, and what brought him to Opera.




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" He's taken the opera world by storm and he's turning heads where ever he goes better caught up. But Nathan -- during his performance with the new York philharmonic orchestra take a look."

" Yeah. Yeah."

" He looks like he should be on the cover of GQ but you're more likely to find Nathan -- on the cover up -- and that's because this smoothly textured baritone. Is thrilling audiences everywhere with the singing. Something he never thought he wind -- doing."

" I had no idea I was. Them pretty typical kid I've I've played a lot of sports. And -- really good school. I was as board. A pretty morsels I was asked to sing in choirs and my -- but also to. Yeah."

" was around sixteen he wanted to make some extra money and it wasn't until his mother suggested taking voice lessons. So he could sing it weddings that the opera but hit."

" Citigroup itself in Minneapolis I want to see them. Local branch of Indiana university's and that -- professor and he said well and we've heard this news is reporting had to be. A recording of photographers. Magically votes or opera. And I never heard anything like that before this is sort of grabbed me sort of drew me. And so. He had. And opera workshop there any solutions for the carbon copy game -- thing we're pumping you -- knowing you -- opening doors. But Obama looked to the music and thought well okay -- to try and it was really the beginning of the."

" I've looked argue the we're just let it go. Yeah."

" After five years of studying he -- The Metropolitan Opera competition. One and was invited to join."

" When I graduated. As an artist program for two years and had an agent after the first here. It's just kind of gone like what's interesting about the world of offer particularly is that if you have a voice. Number one have a voice. They find you. That kind of you know them if your musical that's helpful enough you know and -- if you can act that's even better. -- always always in search of the voices and I kind of found me. --"

" Big break up performance the singing and Billy --"

" But it was my first time -- title. New opera and it was a big success. It's a role that I -- and I feel very strongly about you very close to him since and have some. Particular -- A list of production all over the world."

" Nathan Gunn is at the top of his game in the opera world and at home with his wife and often times recital partner Julie Jordan gun. They've been married for seventeen years and after my kids."

" I would be the first to admit that it's more difficult to be a female opera singer but this kind of career financial and male opera singer because. I find that kids are. Our moral -- that being on the phenomenon but having said that also introduced the -- typical five kids. But mostly just takes a lot of time -- very much you have to kind of but the operatives use and BUK. Or."

" This shoppers are likes listening to classic rock and -- you believe it. Heavy metal. "

" There was a time where -- Very weird stories there's a time when I was. Had insomnia I just could not sleep and I've tried everything and finally I was actually your new York and common apartment it's terrible Parma and most of -- from the I don't know but it had a great -- and it was always as well those apartments it was always sort of kind of dark it was. Right outside so perfect sleeping conditions. It's still wasn't working for months as Hamachi you know we'll come easy to listen to. And these are trying to listen to Metallica video -- Metallica and the system would sound something like that. And so I'm here I'm listening to stuff. And it just flocked out all of your thought that this book did I was able to sleep in strangely enough and and so I kind of got into it."

" Although dubbed the opera -- Nathan thinks his flattering but he's quick to put it all in perspective."

" You know and I'm not -- person's -- I think in -- way it keeps you honest because you think. You know I really have to not only have to look this part I have to actually say it better than everybody else that's my goal because -- you know you can't just get the job because you. Fit physically characteristics of it to actually have to. Delivered musically as well because let's do that isn't in fact of big deciding factor refute. In this business if you can't sing it for -- voice to do it it's just not an option."

" Let Nathan has that voice and it's clear every single time he walks onto the student yeah. I you can log on to better to -- dot com and find a link to naked -- to check out all of his upcoming performance schedule."

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