Rhoda Levine

Rhoda Levine is an opera-director, choreographer and a faculty-member at several schools of music.

Levine was born in New York, NY. She wrote the libretto for Opus Zoo by Luciano Berio and has also written children's books. She is the artistic director of Play It By Ear, an improvisational opera group. She is the recipient of the National Institute for Music Theater Award. She got her BA at Bard College. In the summer, she teaches at the John Duffy Composers Institute, in Norfolk, VA.

Contents 1 Operas directed by Rhoda Levine 1.1 Cape Town Opera 1.2 Chicago Opera Theatre 1.3 Glimmerglass Opera 1.4 Kentucky Opera 1.5 Nederlandse Opera 1.6 New York City Opera 1.7 Opera Omaha 1.8 Opera Theater of St. Louis 1.9 San Diego Opera 1.10 Santa Fe Opera 1.11 Further 2 Faculty 3 Books 4 External links

Operas directed by Rhoda Levine

Cape Town Opera

• Porgy and Bess (South African premiere (1996))

Chicago Opera Theatre

• Der Kaiser von Atlantis - Victor Ullman
• Orpheus Descending (World premiere)

Glimmerglass Opera

• The Good Soldier Schweik
• Lizzie Borden
• Rigoletto
• Little Women
• The Good Soldier's Schweik

Kentucky Opera

• Susannah
• The Marriage of Figaro

Nederlandse Opera

• Der Kaiser von Atlantis (world premiere (1975)) - Viktor Ullman
• Le Nozze di Figaro (1986)
• Lulu
• The Good Soldier Schweik
• From the House of the Dead
• The Love for Three Oranges
• The Fantasticks
• Macbeth
• Of Mice and Men
• The Marriage of Figaro

New York City Opera

• Medea (directing debut, 1982)
• Of Mice and Men (1997)
• Little Women (2003)
• Lizzie Borden (1996)
• Rigoletto
• The Ballad of Baby Doe
• X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (world premiere)
• From the House of the Dead (American premiere)
• Die Soldaten
• Mathis der Maler (1995)

Opera Omaha

• Wakonda's Dream

Opera Theater of St. Louis

• Treemonisha
• La Bohème
• A Death in the Family (1986)
• Under the Double Moon (World premiere)

San Diego Opera

• Madama Butterfly (1982)
• La Bomème (1985)
• Lucia di Lammermoor (1989)
• Of Mice and men (1999)

Santa Fe Opera

• Figaro

Further

Productions at Belgium’s Opéra National; Scottish Opera; San Francisco Opera; Festival of the Two Worlds; Cabrillo Festival; and Holland Festival; directed and choreographed productions on and off-Broadway, in London’s West End, and for CBS and WNET; She directed the concert tour 'Kabbalah' by Stewart Wallace. She directed the world premiere of the opera Where the Wild Things Are, music composed by Oliver Knussen

Faculty

Former faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, and Northwestern University, and currently teaches at Manhattan School of Music (since 1992) and Mannes College and is a frequent guest teacher/visiting artist at Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Books

• Arthur (1962)
• Three Ladies beside the sea (1963), illustrated by Edward Gorey, to be republished by the New York Review of Books June, 2010
• Harrison loved his umbrella (1964)
• He was there from the day we moved in (1968), also translated in German ('Er war da und sass im Garten') and French ('Il etait la, il attendait), illustrated by Edward Gorey
• Herbert situation (1969)
• The Quiet Story (1963)
• Prince What-Shall-I-Do (1961), illustrated by Sandy Wilson

External links

• Play It By Ear
• Rhoda Levine papers, 1952-2009 Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

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