Slide 2:
A Brief History (highlights) Other Work history:
Macaroni Grill
As a neck tie painter / entrepreneur
Poultry fan manufacturer
Factory worker Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup factory
Slide 3:
A Brief History (highlights) Began professional soloist engagement
First Presbyterian Church in Kansas City
Utah Festival Opera, Logan, Utah
First opera engagement
… sang chorus and drank beer.
Glimmerglass Opera – Cooperstown, NY
first Artist program
Baseball Hall of Fame
Slide 4:
The American Tenors, signed to Sony/BMG Masterworks
A bunch of Opera companies
Semi-Finals, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
Solo CD’s and Collaboration with Tzigane Music, record label
Selections from Winterreise, with Beau Bledsoe
Mujer Sola, track 16, with Tango Lorca
Beginners, several tracks, with Bradley Cox
Nathan and Friends, several tracks, Live
Departure, with Beau Bledsoe
Slide 5:
Opera Tampa -
Celestiano Medeiros , H. Lowell , Sacco and Vanzetti (world premiere) , Anton Coppola
*First character in an opera to be executed in electric chair…*
Slide 6:
Dance Break
Slide 7:
Nathan Granner In the Works
Hymnody in America, with Bradley Cox
Opera commission (classified) - Jefferey Ruckman / Nathan Granner prod.
Wee Small Hours – Ruckman arr.
progressive variations on the classic 1955
Frank Sinatra album
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