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Entries from August 2010

Heartland Heartthrob: An Interview with Nathan Gunn, Part 2

August 30th, 2010

Part I of this interview may be found at: Heartland Heartthrob: An Interview with Nathan Gunn, Part I. [Below: Nathan Gunn; edited image, based on a photograph from www.texasperformingarts.com.] Wm: One of your colleagues in one of my interviews suggested that your physical exercise regimen and your physical appearance have put pressure on other operatic males to [...]

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Heartland Heartthrob: An Interview with Nathan Gunn, Part I

August 26th, 2010

[The following interview with baritone Nathan Gunn was conducted in August, 2010] Wm: You grew up in South Bend in Northern Indiana, and now reside in Champagne-Urbana, in East Central Illinois. Yet you spend a part of each year in the world’s great cosmopolitan cities, even while you are paterfamilias for a large family back [...]

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Mozart’s “Flute” Toots Magically as Santa Fe Opera’s Summer 2010 Season Ends – August 23, 2010

August 24th, 2010

Wolfgang Amadeus (note about film Amadeus below) Mozart’s final operatic masterpiece, “Die Zauberfloete” (The Magic Flute) once again enchants Santa Fe Opera audiences. The summer 2010 season is the 54th for The Santa Fe Opera in beautiful olde Santa Fe  - now celebrating its 400th anniversary. The “Magic Flute” has been a very frequent show-stopper of the all-time operatic wunderkind [...]

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