"Skylark Opera Theatre presents the Minnesota premiere of The New Seven Deadly Sins August 7-10, 2025, at The Crane Theater. The production is a daring blend of contemporary song and dance featuring seven original songs commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation for the legendary Audra McDonald. Each sin is brought to life through the unique […]

"Skylark Opera Theatre presents the Minnesota premiere of The New Seven Deadly Sins August 7-10, 2025, at The Crane Theater. The production is a daring blend of contemporary song and dance featuring seven original songs commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation for the legendary Audra McDonald. Each sin is brought to life through the unique […]

"Skylark Opera Theatre presents the Minnesota premiere of The New Seven Deadly Sins August 7-10, 2025, at The Crane Theater. The production is a daring blend of contemporary song and dance featuring seven original songs commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation for the legendary Audra McDonald. Each sin is brought to life through the unique […]

"Skylark Opera Theatre presents the Minnesota premiere of The New Seven Deadly Sins August 7-10, 2025, at The Crane Theater. The production is a daring blend of contemporary song and dance featuring seven original songs commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation for the legendary Audra McDonald. Each sin is brought to life through the unique […]

"Skylark Opera Theatre presents the Minnesota premiere of The New Seven Deadly Sins August 7-10, 2025, at The Crane Theater. The production is a daring blend of contemporary song and dance featuring seven original songs commissioned by the Carnegie Hall Corporation for the legendary Audra McDonald. Each sin is brought to life through the unique […]

WQXR (NY Classical Radio) will stream a broadcast of the Park Avenue Armory concert "Rose in Bloom," with Erin Morley and Gerald Martin Moore. This is the final broadcast in the series and will be broadcast on Sept. 6, 2025. It includes works by Schumann, Berg, Saint-Saëns, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Ian Gordon.

"MSU soprano Melanie Helton joins renowned composer Ricky Ian Gordon for a narrated evening of his vivid and theatrical vocal works, including excerpts from the upcoming production of The Grapes of Wrath. Featuring faculty, student, and alumni singers, the program highlights a decades-long artistic partnership with music once praised by The New York Times as '…caviar for a […]

"Presenting the university premiere of The Grapes of Wrath, the sweeping American opera based on John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. With music by celebrated composer Ricky Ian Gordon and libretto by Michael Korie, the opera follows the Joad family as they journey westward, driven from Oklahoma by the Dust Bowl in search of a better […]

Cincinnati Opera presents a story of "love, loss, and letting go. Orpheus, a grieving musician, loses his beloved Euridice too soon—and is granted one impossible chance to bring her back from the underworld. Guided by music and memory, he descends into a realm of shadows with only one rule: don’t look back. Ricky Ian Gordon’s […]

Cincinnati Opera presents a story of "love, loss, and letting go. Orpheus, a grieving musician, loses his beloved Euridice too soon—and is granted one impossible chance to bring her back from the underworld. Guided by music and memory, he descends into a realm of shadows with only one rule: don’t look back. Ricky Ian Gordon’s […]