Performance Year: 2013
In an appearance on The Colbert Report, Nathan Gunn had to answer Stephen Colbert’s claim that the baritone was sending the wrong message by singing opera without a shirt. Gunn’s subsequent presence on People magazine’s list of the sexiest men alive has distracted casual observers from the acclaim he has won solely on the basis of his singing and acting at most of America’s and Europe’s leading opera houses. He may be most familiar from singing Papageno in the Met broadcast of Julie Taymor’s production of The Magic Flute, but he has also created roles in many new operas, including An American Tragedy, Man on the Moon (as Buzz Aldrin), and Love and Other Demons. A devoted recitalist, he often appears in concert with his pianist-wife, Julie.
