By BERNARD HOLLAND [NY Times, 12 February 2007]
ST. PAUL. Feb. 11 ó ìThe Grapes of Wrathî is an epic in a peculiarly American way. Famously in John Steinbeckís novel of migrant workers in the Depression, and now in an opera by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie, its knights and ladies are poor people of little natural distinction, ennobled by the desperation of their lives. Their shining ambition is to survive, although a lot of them donít.