The modern-day successor to Leonard Bernstein and Steven Sondheim, composer Ricky Ian Gordon's music has been performed by singers including Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Audra MacDonald, and Kristin Chenoweth. His opera with librettist Michael Korie, "The Grapes of Wrath," based on Steinbeck's novel, recently premiered in Minnesota to universal acclaim, with subsequent performances at the Utah Opera. In reviewing the opera's premiere, Los Angeles Times critic Mark Swed wrote that Gordon's "great achievement is to merge Broadway and opera... and it is greatly enhanced by his firm control over ensembles and his sheer love for the operatic voice."
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