16 pieces since 2005 — in 10 roles, at 6 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
3 pieces as Metropolitan Opera — stats above show all coverage for Nathan Gunn.
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Du Yun is the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer of Angel’s Bone. Her new opera, In Our Daughter’s Eyes, a one-act monodrama for bass-baritone and an orchestra of six, opened the current tenth Prototype Festival, in a performance at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, starring erstwhile Met regular Nathan Gunn.
Heretofore I’d avoided the Met’s abridged, English-language holiday presentations.
This is a performance I never thought I’d see. This 2003 Met performance of Ariadne auf Naxos was filmed, but got tied up in some kind of (legal?) dispute and never televised, and I had long written it off as being tucked away in a vault, doomed to be “the lost telecast.” So it is […]
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