Ricky Ian Gordon
Operas include Ellen West (Beth Morrison Projects, Opera Saratoga with poet Frank Bidart), The House Without A Christmas Tree (Houston Grand Opera), 27 (Opera Theatre of St Louis) lib. Royce Vavrek; Morning Star (Cincinnati Opera, lib. William Hoffman); A Coffin In Egypt (Houston Grand Opera, lib. Leonard Foglia); Rappahannock County (Virginia Opera, lib. Mark Campbell); Green Sneakers (Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and Lincoln Center); The Grapes of Wrath (Minnesota Opera, lib. Michael Korie); The Tibetan Book of The Dead (Houston Grand Opera, lib. Jean Claude Van Itallie); and Orpheus and Euridice (Lincoln Center, Obie Award). Musicals include Sycamore Trees (Signature Theatre, Helen Hayes Award), My Life With Albertine (Playwrights Horizons, playwright Richard Nelson; AT&T Award, Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Music Theater Foundation Award) and Dream True (Vineyard, playwright Tina Landau; Richard Rodgers Award). Upcoming includes the operas This House (librettists Lynn Nottage and Ruby Gerber) and The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (lib. Michael Korie). www.rickyiangordon.com