Opera Warhorses

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 try to [...]

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[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 in [...]

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William’s note: I first interviewed Conductor Antony Walker at the new offices of the Pittsburgh Opera (in the historic building that was originally part of the factory of the Westinghouse Brake Company. (See: Interviewing Conductor Antony Walker on Undervalued Masterpieces – and His Unexpected Celebrity.)
This second interview took place at the Santa Fe Opera ranch, [...]

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