Ricky Ian Gordon

HGO’s The House Without a Christmas Tree

December 1, 2017Sydney Boyd

A world premiere (music by Ricky Ian Gordon, libretto by Royce Vavrek), this is the closest HGO has gotten to getting the Christmas cheer right. Read my review at Houstonia.

HGO’s A Coffin in Egypt

March 19, 2014Sydney Boyd

My thoughts on Houston Grand Opera’s world premiere, A Coffin in Egypt, at Houstonia Magazine.

Houston Grand Opera A Coffin in Egypt, Fredericka von Stade, Houston Grand Opera, Houstonia Magazine, Ricky Ian Gordon

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About Me

Sydney Boyd is a critic in Houston, TX. She studies how music shapes narrative temporalities in 20th-century literature in the English PhD program at Rice University, and, occasionally, returns to her origins as a violinist.