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 Number 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.

Operas directed by Rhoda Levine

Opera	Company	Year	Notes
Porgy and Bess	Cape Town Opera	1996	South African premiere
Der Kaiser von Atlantis	Chicago Opera Theatre		Viktor Ullmann
Orpheus Descending	Chicago Opera Theatre		World premiere
The Good Soldier Schweik	Glimmerglass Opera
Lizzie Borden	Glimmerglass Opera
Rigoletto	Glimmerglass Opera
Little Women	Glimmerglass Opera		By Adamo
Susannah	Kentucky Opera
The Marriage of Figaro	Kentucky Opera
Der Kaiser von Atlantis	Nederlandse Opera	1975	Viktor Ullmann; world premiere
Le Nozze di Figaro	Nederlandse Opera	1986
Lulu	Nederlandse Opera
The Good Soldier Schweik	Nederlandse Opera
From the House of the Dead	Nederlandse Opera
The Love for Three Oranges	Nederlandse Opera
The Fantasticks	Nederlandse Opera
Macbeth	Nederlandse Opera
Of Mice and Men	Nederlandse Opera
The Marriage of Figaro	Nederlandse Opera
Medea	New York City Opera	1982	Directing debut
Of Mice and Men	New York City Opera	1997
Little Women	New York City Opera	2003	By Adamo
Lizzie Borden	New York City Opera	1996
Rigoletto	New York City Opera
The Ballad of Baby Doe	New York City Opera
X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X	New York City Opera		World premiere; by Anthony Davis
From the House of the Dead	New York City Opera		American premiere; by Janacek
Die Soldaten	New York City Opera		By Zimmermann
Mathis der Maler	New York City Opera	1995
Wakonda's Dream	Opera Omaha		By Anthony Davis
Treemonisha	Opera Theatre of St. Louis	2000
La Bohème	Opera Theatre of St. Louis
A Death in the Family	Opera Theatre of St. Louis	1986
Under the Double Moon	Opera Theatre of St. Louis		World premiere
Madama Butterfly	San Diego Opera	1982
La Bohème	San Diego Opera	1985
Lucia di Lammermoor	San Diego Opera	1989
Of Mice and Men	San Diego Opera	1999
Figaro	Santa Fe Opera
L'histoire du Soldat	Santa Fe Opera	1987
Kabbalah			By Stewart Wallace
Where the Wild Things Are			Music composed by Oliver Knussen

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.

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.

Personal life

Levine lives in New York City.

Books

• Levine, Rhoda (1961). Prince What-Shall-I-Do. Illustrated by Sandy Wilson. New York Review of Books. ISBN 9781590173541. OCLC 30222994.
• Levine, Rhoda (1962). Arthur. OCLC 1651323.
• Levine, Rhoda (1963). The Quiet Story. New York Review of Books. ISBN 9781590173541. OCLC 1415095.
• Levine, Rhoda (1963). Three Ladies beside the Sea. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. OCLC 1203946.
  • Republished by the New York Review of Books in June 2010.
• Levine, Rhoda (1964). Harrison Loved His Umbrella. OCLC 1415085.
• Levine, Rhoda (1968). He was There from the Day We Moved in. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. New York Review of Books. ISBN 9781590173541. OCLC 87510.
  • Levine, Rhoda (1977). Er war da und saß im Garten (in German). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. New York Review of Books. ISBN 9781590173541. OCLC 1203944.
  • Levine, Rhoda (1977). Il etait la, il attendait (in French). Illustrated by Edward Gorey. New York Review of Books. ISBN 9781590173541. OCLC 301610899.
  • Levine, Rhoda (2012). He was There from the Day We Moved in. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. New York Review of Books. ISBN 978-1-59017-515-6.
• Levine, Rhoda (1969). The Herbert Situation. New York Review of Books. ISBN 9781590173541. OCLC 2156186.

External links

• Rhoda Levine papers, 1952–2009, Music Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts