Gordon: The House Without A Christmas Tree / Moore, Houston Grand Opera

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PENTATONE
Release Date
September 21, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GORDON, RICKY IAN
    • PERFORMER
      Houston Grand Opera, Moore
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 21, 2018
    • UPC
      827949069765
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PTC5186697
    • LABEL
      PENTATONE
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Prologue: I'm a writer now (Adelaide, Carolers)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Juvenile Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Heidi Stober

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    2. Scene 1: I bring great news (Addie, Grandma, Carla Mae)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Lauren Snouffer, Patricia Schuman, Megan Mikailovna Samarin

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    3. Interlude 1, "Snowballs": Carla Mae! (Addie, Billy Wild, Boys, Gloria Cott)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Juvenile Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Lauren Snouffer, Maximillian Macias, Elisabeth Leone

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    4. Scene 2, "After Dinner": Ask him! (Grandma, Addie, Dad)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Patricia Schuman, Lauren Snouffer, Daniel Belcher

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    5. Scene 3, "Caroling": We don't want anyone left out of the gift exchange! (Miss Thompson, Billy Wild, Addie, Carolers, Grandma)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Juvenile Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Heidi Stober, Maximillian Macias, Lauren Snouffer, Patricia Schuman

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    6. Scene 4, "Best Friends": I will live in the woods with Delmer Doakes (Carla Mae, Addie)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Megan Mikailovna Samarin, Lauren Snouffer

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    7. Scene 5, "School Christmas": This is a present from Carla Mae to Delmer (Miss Thompson, Class, Addie, Gloria Cott)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Juvenile Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Heidi Stober, Lauren Snouffer, Elisabeth Leone

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    8. Interlude 2, "Journey of the Christmas Tree, Part 1": You were lucky, Addie! (Carla Mae, Addie, Billy Wild)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Megan Mikailovna Samarin, Lauren Snouffer, Maximillian Macias

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    9. Piano Interlude 1

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Performer: Jonathan Gmeinder

    10. Scene 6, "The House with a Christmas Tree": Oh, boy. (Grandma, Addie, Helen, Dad)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Patricia Schuman, Lauren Snouffer, Heidi Stober, Daniel Belcher

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    11. Piano Interlude 2

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Performer: Jonathan Gmeinder

    12. Scene 7, "Gentle Wisdom": He's mean (Addie, Grandma)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Lauren Snouffer, Patricia Schuman

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    13. Interlude 3, "Journey of the Christmas Tree, Part 2": This. Is. Impossible. (Addie, Billy Wild, Gloria Cott)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Lauren Snouffer, Maximillian Macias, Elisabeth Leone

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    14. Scene 8, "A Gift, Not Charity": What happened to the tree? (Dad, Grandma, Addie, Adelaide)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Daniel Belcher, Patricia Schuman, Lauren Snouffer, Heidi Stober

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    15. Scene 9, "Nativity": Moo. Thank you. (Gloria Cott, Addie, Miss Thompson, Billy Wild, Full Company)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Juvenile Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Elisabeth Leone, Lauren Snouffer, Heidi Stober, Maximillian Macias

      Conductor: Bradley Moore

    16. Piano Interlude 3

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Performer: Jonathan Gmeinder

    17. Scene 10, "A Surprise for Addie": What do you think? (Dad, Addie, Grandma, Full Company) - Epilogue, "New York City": That's where I grew up (Adelaide, Grandma, Dad)

      Composer: Ricky Ian Gordon

      Ensemble: Houston Grand Opera Juvenile Chorus, Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

      Performer: Daniel Belcher, Lauren Snouffer, Patricia Schuman, Heidi Stober

      Conductor: Bradley Moore


Precocious Addie Mills is smart and energetic, just like the mother she never knew. Addie has no idea why her father resents the holidays so intensely, refusing even to allow a Christmas tree in the house. But when she brings home a tree she won in a school contest, it paves the way for a miracle of sorts—her father’s broken soul is transformed. The House without a Christmas Tree, a new opera by Ricky Ian Gordon and Royce Vavrek that premiered at Houston Grand Opera in 2017, is based on the book by Gail Rock and the beloved 1972 television movie of the same name. Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956 in Oceanside, NY) studied piano, composition and acting, at Carnegie Mellon University. After moving to New York City, he quickly emerged as a leading writer of vocal music that spans art song, opera, and musical theater. Mr. Gordon’s songs have been performed and or recorded by such internationally renowned singers as Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Judy Collins, Kelli O’Hara, Audra MacDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Andrea Marcovicci, and the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, among many others. Royce Vavrek is a Canada-born, Brooklyn-based librettist and lyricist who has been called “the indie Hofmannsthal” (The New Yorker) a “Metastasio of the downtown opera scene” (The Washington Post), “an exemplary creator of operatic prose” (The New York Times), and “one of the most celebrated and sought after librettists in the world” (CBC Radio). His opera “Angel’s Bone” with composer Du Yun was awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Music.