Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera

The true confessions of a working opera composer: an exhilarating story of "a life that comes out of chaos."

At eight years old, Ricky Ian Gordon pulled The Victor Book of Opera off his piano teacher’s bookshelf, and his world shifted on its axis. Though scandal, sadness, and confusion would shake that world over the next few decades, its polestar remained constant. Music has been the guiding force of Gordon’s life; through it, he has been able not only to survive great sorrow but also to c...