Nathan Gunn interview

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CHRISTOPHER PURDY INTERVIEWS NATHAN GUNN

Baritone Nathan Gunn’s new CD, ‘Just Before Sunrise,’ is a collection
of standards by Jimmy Van Heusen, Tom Waits, and Billy Joel, combined with new songs by Ben Moore,Gene Scheer, and Sting. It’s a winner, neither full classical nor pop, nor crossover, but a new expansion of American song.

Nathan Gunn has been a leading artist with the Metropolitan Opera since 1995; he sang Papageno in Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ in the Met’s first HD cinema presentations beamed into movie theaters worldwide. He returns to the Met in New York and in the movie theatres next season for Mercutio in Gounod’s ‘Romeo et Juliette.’

‘Just Before Sunrise’ is published by SONY Classical and hits the
stores on August 7th. We spoke on the phone from his hotel in New York on August 2, 2007.

–Christopher Purdy
‘Thanks’ as always to Eric French