Ricky Ian Gordon (born May 15, 1956) is an American composer of songs, stage musicals and opera. The death of his lover from AIDS inspired Dream True (1998) and Orpheus and Euridice (2005). He has composed several operas and had his music performed by Audra McDonald, Dawn Upshaw, Renée Fleming, Todd Palmer and others.
Gordon grew up on Long Island and attended Carnegie Mellon University. Donald Katz based his book, Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America, on Gordon's family life.
In February 2007, Gordon's opera, The Grapes of Wrath, premiered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The opera was co-commissioned and co-produced by the Minnesota Opera and the Utah Symphony & Opera.
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