Ricky Ian Gordon is composing "Intimate Apparel, " with Lynn Nottage adapting her 2003 play about an African-American seamstress in 1905 New York, and composer JeanineTesori and Tony Kushner are working to expand "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck, " their one-act opera based on Eugene and Carlotta O'Neill that opened at Cooperstown's Glimmerglass Opera in August 2011.