Ricky Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon’s credits include Rappahannock County (librettist, Mark Campbell; Virginia Opera), Sycamore Trees (Signature Theatre), Green Sneakers (Bravo!, Vail Valley Music Festival), The Grapes of Wrath (librettist, Michael Korie; Minnesota, Utah and Pittsburgh Operas, Carnegie Hall), OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice (Lincoln Center), AT&T Award-winning My Life With Albertine (Playwrights Horizons), Richard Rodgers Award-winning Dream True (Vineyard Theater), The Tibetan Book Of The Dead (librettist, Jean Claude Van Itallie; Houston Grand Opera), Only Heaven(Encompass Opera) and an operatic monologue, Night Flight To San Francisco, for soprano Renée Fleming and orchestra. His songs have been recorded and performed by such artists as Fleming, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Frederica von Stade, Dawn Upshaw and many others. Upcoming projects include operas for the Metropolitan Opera with librettist Lynn Nottage, and an opera of Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis with Michael Korie. After Gordon’s Lincoln Center American Songbook, entitled “Bright Eyed Joy,” The New York Times noted, “If the music of Ricky Ian Gordon had to be defined by a single quality, it would be the bursting effervescence infusing songs that blithely blur the lines between art song and the high-end Broadway music of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim… It’s caviar for a world gorging on pizza.” http://www.rickyiangordon.com

Ricky Gordon
Ricky Ian Gordon’s credits include Rappahannock County (librettist, Mark Campbell; Virginia Opera), Sycamore Trees (Signature Theatre), Green Sneakers (Bravo!, Vail Valley Music Festival), The Grapes of Wrath (librettist, Michael Korie; Minnesota, Utah and Pittsburgh Operas, Carnegie Hall), OBIE Award-winning Orpheus and Euridice (Lincoln Center), AT&T Award-winning My Life With Albertine (Playwrights Horizons), Richard Rodgers Award-winning Dream True (Vineyard Theater), The Tibetan Book Of The Dead (librettist, Jean Claude Van Itallie; Houston Grand Opera), Only Heaven(Encompass Opera) and an operatic monologue, Night Flight To San Francisco, for soprano Renée Fleming and orchestra. His songs have been recorded and performed by such artists as Fleming, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Frederica von Stade, Dawn Upshaw and many others. Upcoming projects include operas for the Metropolitan Opera with librettist Lynn Nottage, and an opera of Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis with Michael Korie. After Gordon’s Lincoln Center American Songbook, entitled “Bright Eyed Joy,” The New York Times noted, “If the music of Ricky Ian Gordon had to be defined by a single quality, it would be the bursting effervescence infusing songs that blithely blur the lines between art song and the high-end Broadway music of Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim… It’s caviar for a world gorging on pizza.” http://www.rickyiangordon.com

Elizabeth Futral
American soprano Elizabeth Futral has established herself as one of the world's leading coloratura sopranos. She has embraced a repertoire that ranges from the Baroque to world premieres with such groups as the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden, New York Philharmonic, London Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and Bayerische Staatsoper. A leading interpreter of today’s music, Futral has sung the world premieres of Andre Previn’s Brief Encounter, Philip Glass’s Orphée, Ricky Ian Gordon’s Orpheus and Euridice, Dominic Argento’s Evensong: Of Love and Angels and Stephen Paulus’s Three Poems of Dylan Thomas. Other notable performances include concerts and/or recordings of Paulus’s To Be Certain of the Dawn, Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath, Kaija Saariaho's Emilie and Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men.

Ricky Gordon