Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin returns to Auckland with globally in-demand opera baritone Nathan Gunn for a special evening featuring their favourite music on 24 November.
The eclectic programme features solos and duets – songs from musicals including The Wizard of Oz, Carousel and West Side Story as well as a sampling of opera, traditional folk and pop tunes.
The vocal powerhouses met while sharing a dressing room for 2010's Sondheim! The Birthday Concert with the New York Philharmonic at the Lincoln Center, and Sondheim fans can be sure the programme will include songs by the composer.
Labelled "the first name in musical theatre" by backstage.com, Mandy Patinkin won a Tony Award in 1980 for his Broadway debut as Che Guevara in Evita and was nominated again in 1984 for his starring role as George in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, Sunday in the Park with George.
For many, it is as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride he is most loved, however his latest role as CIA Division Chief Saul Berenson in Homeland has garnered him much acclaim and a 2013 Emmy Award nomination – he already has a 1995 Emmy Award for Chicago Hope. He leaves for this tour immediately after the third season of Homeland wraps shooting.
Nathan Gunn has performed leading roles at many of the world's most acclaimed opera houses and has recently ventured outside the standard opera repertoire with appearances in performances of Camelot with the New York Philharmonic and Showboat at Carnegie Hall. He appeared with Sting and Trudie Styler in the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Twin Spirits and appeared as an Italian opera singer in television comedy The Family Guy.
Following his Australasian concert dates he heads to New York's The Metropolitan Opera to play Papageno in The Magic Flute. Mr. Gunn is a lyric baritone with a warm, resonant voice – New York Times and The Chicago Sun Times called him one of the world's leading baritones…
The duo will be joined by their long-term accompanists Paul Ford and Julie Gunn.
Chicago Review Examiner describes the concert as "nothing short of genius, giving [concert] goers a night of musical excellence they will long remember."
John Frost and Phil Bathols proudly present
An Evening with Mandy Patinkin and Nathan Gunn
24 November, 6pm
ASB Theatre, Aotea Centre
Book at www.ticketmaster.com or 0800 111 999
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