In 2011 he wrote the music for Rappahannock County, a staged revue of twenty one songs about the Civil War, commissioned by the Virginia Arts Festival.
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He has composed several operas and had his music performed by Audra McDonald, Dawn Upshaw, Renée Fleming, Todd Palmer and others.
The company has produced notable world and American premieres of new works, including most recently American composer Ricky Ian Gordon's Rappahannock County, a Civil War song cycle co-commissioned by Virginia Opera, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Modlin Center of the University of Richmond, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Ian Fleming | Gordon Brown | Ricky Martin | Flash Gordon | Ricky Gervais | Ian McKellen | Gordon Lightfoot | Dexter Gordon | Gordon Banks | Ricky Nelson | Charles George Gordon | Ian Smith | Mike Gordon | Ricky Skaggs | Ian Rankin | Gordon Highlanders | Ricky Hatton | Ian Brown | Ian Botham | Ian Thorpe | Ian McEwan | Gordon | Kim Gordon | Ian Paisley | Gordon Ramsay | Ricky Tomlinson | Ian Kershaw | Ian Bremmer | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby | Ricky Ponting |