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Recent projects include the opera Intimate Apparel with playwright Lynn Nottage, a commission from New York’s Metropolitan Opera.

Louis), about Gertrude Stein’s salons at 27 rue de Fleurus A Coffin In Egypt (2014, libretto by Leonard Foglia, premiered by the Houston Grand Opera, The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and Opera Philadelphia), a haunting tale of memory and murder, racism and recrimination Rappahannock County (2011, libretto by Mark Campbell, premiered at the Harrison Opera House), inspired by diaries, letters, and personal accounts from the 1860s Sycamore Trees (2010, libretto by composer), a musical about suburban secrets and family The Grapes of Wrath (20, libretto by Michael Korie, 2007 premiere by the Minnesota Opera, 2010 premiered by The American Symphony Orchestra) Green Sneakers (2008, libretto by the composer, premiered by the Miami String Quartet), a theatrical song cycle for Baritone, String Quartet, and Empty Chair Orpheus and Euridice (2005) My Life with Albertine (2003) Night Flight To San Francisco and Antarctica (2000) from Tony Kushner’s Angels In America Dream True (1999) States Of Independence (1992) The Tibetan Book of the Dead (1996) Only Heaven (1995).

Gordon’s songs have been performed and or recorded by such internationally renowned singers as Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Nathan Gunn, Judy Collins, Kelli O’Hara, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Nicole Cabell, the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Frederica Von Stade, Andrea Marcovicci, Harolyn Blackwell, and Betty Buckley, among many others.Ī highly prolific composer, Ricky Ian Gordon’s catalog includes The House Without A Christmas Tree (2016, libretto by Royce Vavrek, premiered by Houston Grand Opera) Morning Star (2014, libretto by William Hoffman, premiered by the Cincinnati Opera), about Jewish immigrants in New York’s Lower East Side in the beginning of the 20th century 27 (2014, libretto by Royce Vavrek, premiered at Opera Theatre of St. After moving to New York City, he quickly emerged as a leading writer of vocal music that spans art song, opera, and musical theater. 1956 in Oceanside, NY) studied piano, composition and acting at Carnegie Mellon University.