An all-star cast from opera and Broadway comes together to present the New York premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie’s beautiful setting of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath. Called “The great American opera” by Musical America, Gordon’s
opera incorporates American popular musical styles of the ‘20s and ‘30s, such as song-and dance, sweet and rousing love songs, ballads with banjos, jazz choruses and a barbershop quartet. Just like the novel itself, the work is both heart-wrenching and uplifting.
Program
Ricky Ian Gordon
The Grapes of Wrath
