Tag: Ricky Ian Gordon
Cultural Attaché’s Icons 2025: Lynn Nottage
The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner discusses her second opera
Kate Chisholm on the Life and Legacy of Composer Peter Foley
“When I fell in love with him, I was falling in love with his music too.”
LYNN NOTTAGE TELLS A GHOST STORY IN “THIS HOUSE”
"I think that moving into opera is sort of reconciling my love for musical storytelling and my desire to stretch and grow as an artist and to continue to challenge myself in new ways."
Best Bets: May 26th – June 1st
Stephanie J. Block and Adrian Dunbar star in "Kiss Me, Kate" on Great Performances
Marc Kudisch: Trade Talk
"We are all people that are imprisoned in this novel of fiction that we write in our heads every day of our lives."
Best of 2022
Our favorite performances including Cabaret, Classical, Musicals, Operas and Plays
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon Writes His Italian Opera
"The tragedy in this movie is that at the heart of it is this unrequited love story, which is a very, almost adolescent kind of pain. But that pain is magnified by the pain of the catastrophe in the background."
Irina Meachem Celebrates The Ways We Come Together
"A singer goes through so much; they have such a big job to do. And I respect what they go through. I can't do it. Yet there are things that the pianist does which is equally impressive and important for me."
“For Lenny” From Pianist Lara Downes
"He was so fluid in his music making long before anyone else was. He laid a lot of groundwork for any of us playing with that fluidity."