Shelter in Place: A Living Room Vaudeville

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The Song of the Earth – Art, Science, and Humanity

Composer Gustav Mahler wrote Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) near the end of his life and in fact never heard it performed. Inspired by Chinese poetry of the seventh and eighth century and written for vocalists with orchestra, the work delves into themes of life and eternity and is considered iconic in the Western classical music canon. This evening—in collaboration with the Illinois Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media (eDream) Institute and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology—musical moments will be woven together with big science presentations by distinguished faculty, followed by a unique rendering of Mahler’s masterpiece enhanced by imagery and movement conceived by Tai Ji master Chungliang Al Huang. Performers will include baritone Nathan Gunn and pianist Julie Gunn.

Krannert Center Presents: Cabaret!

Wilkommen! Bienvenue! Welcome! This joint production celebrates Krannert Center’s 50-year partnership with the School of Music, Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, Illinois Theatre, and Dance at Illinois. Come to the Cabaret and see the sexy, seedy Kit Kat dancers, doomed lovers Frau Schneider and Herr Schultz, and the inimitable Sally Bowles. With classic songs (“Maybe This Time,” “Two Ladies,” and of course the title song), fresh choreography, and an emphasis on the humanity of life in the Weimar Republic, this collaboration is sure to enchant.

Julie Gunn, conductor

Gulfshore Opera Gala

Julie and Nathan Gunn are the featured artists for Gulfshore Opera’s signature fundraising event. Joined by GO’s Professional Artists in Residence during the first half of the program, they will present popular opera scenes Including Mr. Gunn’s famous Papageno Suicide scene. in the second half, Nathan and Julie Gunn will perform American music. Join us for the concert only or the Gala Package which includes the concert, Meet the Artist Reception, and Gala dinner at The Club at the Strand.

Sensorium Ex

Join us Friday, December 6th at 5pm in Krannert Center’s Colwell playhouse for a workshop presentation of Paola Prestini’s new opera, Sensorium Ex.

Sensorium Ex is a new opera in progress, commissioned by the Atlanta Opera and Beth Morrison Projects for composer Paola Prestini and librettist Brenda Shaughnessy. The full-length piece is in the research/development/writing stage and is slated to premiere in 2021. Prestini and Shaughnessy are immersed in a deep exploration of the question—to be answered in music, words, storytelling, drama—of what it means to be fully and essentially human, connected and thriving in a web of communities both domestic and scientific. The inquiry and storyline of the opera is currently finding shape, arc, and vitality at the dynamic intersections of disability studies, neuroscience, computer-science, robotics, AI, and machine-learning technology. Sensorium Ex is developed and produced by Atlanta Opera and Beth Morrison Projects in association with Arizona State University, EnactLab, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Lyric Theatre @ Illinois.

Julie and Nathan Gunn Present DRYTOWN: An Living Room Vaudeville

Where did you get your start? It’s a question often asked of Krannert Center’s incredible array of artists, including Julie and Nathan Gunn. For Julie Jordan Gunn, things began in part in Drytown, California, a gold-mining-town-turned-summer-theatre-destination where, as Julie was growing up, the Jordan family would join the Claypipers performance troupe to present comedic melodramas and a special Labor Day children’s showcase featuring none other than Julie and her two younger brothers. Things built from there for Julie—and the story eventually included Nathan, too. Now the Gunns invite you to pull up a chair for a charming living-room style cabaret, complete with a small band and filled with their own family stories; friends old and new singing and playing songs old and new (including numbers by the witty and wise Susan Werner); and special guests who will offer a unique window into where great artists come from.

Newport Music Festival 2019 Gala

Lyric Studio/Lyric Scenes

Join us Wednesday, May 1 at 7:30pm in the Tryon Festival Theatre for our semester presentations of Lyric Studio and Lyric Scenes. Taught by Sarah Wigley and Michael Tilley, Lyric Studio presents “Tin Pan Alley and Bel Canto Opera” featuring scenes from the beloved musicals of the 1920’s and 30s and bel canto opera favorites. Directly following will be Lyric Scenes, music directed by Dr. Julie Gunn. Lyric Scenes will present an evening of opera scenes ranging from Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites to Rossini’s Barber of Seville and will culminate in a performance of Elizabeth Gartman and Susan Bywater’s new opera, The New Motive Power.

Crazy for You

Wigmore Hall Presents: Nathan and Julie Gunn in Concert

The American baritone Nathan Gunn and pianist Julie Gunn propose a varied programme of poetic and musical voices from Carnegie Hall to Tin Pan Alley via Broadway.

“A Grand Night for Singing” at the Allerton Mansion

MARCH 7^TH AND 8^TH: Lyric Theatre @ Illinois presents “A Grand Night for Singing”, an intimate night of dinner, theatre, and song at the Allerton Mansion. Featuring masterpieces from the era of Rodgers and Hammerstein, this sparkling night celebrates the golden age of musical theatre, and is sure to delight and enchant.

Dinner starts at 6pm. Seating is limited.

Sonic Illinois: The Rape of Lucretia

Music by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Ronald Duncan, based on André Obey’s play Le Viol de Lucrèce
Julie Jordan Gunn, conductor
Kirsten Pullen, director

It’s a tale as old as time. In Benjamin Britten’s 1946 chamber opera set in ancient Rome, a woman is a pawn in a power struggle between men and pays the ultimate price. Department of Theatre Head Kirsten Pullen and Lyric Theatre Co-Director Julie Gunn lead a female production team to explore how sexual violence resonates across the centuries.

Sung in English
Contains adult content

Musco Center Presents: An Evening With Nathan and Julie Gunn

Concert followed by a Master Class with students of Chapman University.

Selections include (subject to change):

• “Largo al factotum”, from Il barbiere di Siviglia  (Gioachino Rossini)
• I love a piano (Irving Berlin)
• The piano has been drinking (Tom Waits)
• Two little flowers  (Charles Ives)
• Papageno Suicide Scene from Die Zauberflöte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• “This is the Life” from Love Life (Kurt Weill)
• Black Max  (William Bolcom)
• Captain Hook’s Soliloquy from Peter Pan (Leonard Bernstein)
• General William Booth Enters into Heaven (William Bolcom)

La Boheme

From the freezing garrets to the festive streets of 19th-century Paris, the story and soaring music of La Bohème capture the joyful essence—and the heartbreaking realities—of young love. Through the everyday world of a group of artists living the Bohemian life, the opera reveals timeless truths about passion and friendship, material poverty and richness of spirit. Internationally acclaimed baritone, University of Illinois Swanlund Chair, and professor of voice Nathan Gunn returns as director after his spring 2018 debut; he is joined by conductor Donald Schleicher, chair of the School of Music orchestra division, for what many consider the world’s most popular opera.

Nathan and Julie Gunn and Friends: An Evening on Broadway

Nathan and Julie host an Evening on Broadway with exciting young talent in selections from Street Scene, Carousel, Guys and Dolls, Parade, Fun Home, and more!

Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival

in memory of Leonard Bernstein, 100 years old this year

Bravo Vail! gala

The Annual Gala
Guests will enjoy an exclusive performance by Grammy Award-winning Nathan Gunn and his wife Julie at the piano for an unforgettable evening of glamorous cabaret, with music by iconic composers from Leonard Bernstein and Cole Porter to Tom Waits and Billy Joel.

Schmidt Vocal Institute

A three day residency with young talent at the University of Miami

The William E. Schmidt Vocal Institute (SVI) nurtures and mentors the development of talented, young singers who wish to pursue studies in music performance and/or education. The curriculum focuses on training singers to have a healthy technique, improved musicianship, and outstanding performance skills.

She Loves Me

Music by Jerry Bock Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick Book by Joe Masteroff

Conducting Sunday, April 29th at 3pm.

LTI Preview Series with American Opera Projects, Black Square and the Illinois Modern Ensemble

Lyric Theatre @ Illinois Preview Series.

Krannert Center for the Performing Arts with Beth Morrison Projects and American Opera Projects.

Wallis Annenberg Center, Beverly Hills, CA: Cabaret Evening

Nathan Gunn, among the most in-demand baritones of his day, along with his wife, pianist Julie Gunn, perform an evening of cabaret by iconic composers ranging from Leonard Bernstein and Cole Porter to Billy Joel and Tom Waits. The concert joins Leonard Bernstein at 100, the worldwide celebration of the 100th birthday of one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history.

Don Giovanni

The internationally acclaimed baritone and School of Music faculty member Nathan Gunn will be making his directorial debut and will be joined by Filippo Ciabatti, beloved Florentine conductor, to bring this dramma giocoso to life.

McCallum Theatre, Palm Desert, CA: Cabaret Evening

Joined by his wife, pianist Julie Gunn, Nathan will perform a versatile program of music from the American Songbook, ranging from Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to Leonard Bernstein and Ned Rorem to Leonard Cohen and Pearl Jam.

Western Michigan University: Cabaret Evening

Nathan Gunn’s cabaret program with wife and pianist Julie Jordan Gunn includes an eclectic mix of standards and other favorites from composers as diverse as William Bolcom, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Tom Waits, and more.

Thomasville, Georgia: Cabaret Evening

Masterclass, Vanderbilt University

We will be working with students from the Blair School of Music, and it’s free and open to the public.

Recital, Vanderbilt University

Julie and Nathan bring their long beloved Schubert song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin to Ingram Hall.

Masterclass

Julie and Nathan will be working with the students of the Florida State University College of Music on American Songs and Arias.

Bravo! Vail Gala

Nathan and Julie will celebrate with Bravo! Vail Music Festival at their Annual Gala.  What a beautiful place to celebrate…

Sunday Serenade

Julie and Nathan bring a cabaret show to the opera house!  Folk songs, show tunes, and opera arias will all come together for a magical afternoon.

Opera America New Works Forum

Joining Opera America’s Laura Lee Everett and Beth Morrison (BMP) to talk about new operas and their relationship with higher education:

Many fruitful collaborations occur between opera companies and educational programs in the development of new works, and the number of these relationships is on the rise. This session features examples of projects that drew effectively on the unique resources of academic and training programs.

Krannert Center on-the-road

Hansel and Gretel

Filippo Ciabatti, conductor Tom Mitchell, director Philip Johnston, choreographer

Central Illinois Children’s Chorus

Music by Engelbert Humperdinck Libretto by Adelheid Wette

Krannert Center on the Road

More information coming soon.

DeBartolo Center at University of Notre Dame

Nathan Gunn remains one of the most exciting and in-demand baritones performing today. Drawing from the Great American Songbook he and wife Julie Gunn perform their favorite cabaret program in the Leighton Concert Hall.

“Title of Show” at Allerton Park

Recital in the park. An LTI co-production.

Residency

Highlands Opera Studio

August 7 – 20, 2018

Interlochen Center for the Arts

Popular opera star Nathan Gunn has developed a reputation as being one of the most exciting and in-demand baritones of the day. Here he teams with his illustrious wife Julie Gunn, the famed pianist and Director of Lyric Theatre Studies at the University of Illinois, for an emotionally charged and artistically impressive operatic performance.

Residency

The Gunns will be in residence at Interlochen during the final week of Camp, July 31-Aug. 5. During the residency, the Gunns will host coachings, master classes and workshops for high school vocal artists and will present a recital on Aug. 2 at 8 p.m.

Georgetown

With Nathan Gunn.

Saint Louis

With Nathan Gunn.

Light in the Piazza

Dawn Harris, director
Julie Jordan Gunn and Michael Tilley, musical directors

Book by Craig Lucas
Music by Adam Guettel
Based on the novella by Elizabeth Spencer

South Bend

With Nathan Gunn. Program includes the premiere of Tom O’Bedlam: a Concert Ayre for Baritone and Chamber Ensemble by English composer Iain Bell.

Viva Verdi!

Great moments in Italian opera conducted by Maestro Donald Schleicher and directed by theatre artist and scholar Kyle Thomas.

The Cliburn

Nathan Gunn, baritone and Julie Gunn, piano. Schumann, Quilter, Moore.

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

With Nathan Gunn. Selections from Nathan and Julie’s cabaret show.

Krannert Center

With Nathan Gunn and the Jupiter String Quartet.

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