Bad news for you, SPIN readers. When asked who would win in a street fight—SPIN readers or the cast of one of his operas—Ricky Ian Gordon did not choose you. “The characters I am drawn to are fierce, individualistic, brave, iconoclastic…and face gigantic obstacles, so I think all of my opera casts would win,” he says, without hesitation.
As a composer, Ricky tackles some of the most epic characters of all time, from his 2001 adaptation of the mythological love saga of Orpheus and Euridice to 2007’s The Grapes of Wrath. But if he had to pick one to compete in a theoretical cage fight, it would be 2014’s
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