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

Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.-Biography:Berio was born at Oneglia Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian...

 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

Bard College

Bard College, founded in 1860 as "St. Stephen's College", is a small four-year liberal arts college located in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.-Location:...

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In the summer, she teaches at the John Duffy Composers Institute, in Norfolk, VA.

Chicago Opera Theatre

• Der Kaiser von Atlantis
  Der Kaiser von Atlantis
  Der Kaiser von Atlantis, oder Die Tod-Verweigerung is a one-act opera by Viktor Ullmann with a libretto by Peter Kien. Both Ullmann and Kien were inmates at the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt , where they collaborated on the opera, around 1943...
  
   - Victor Ullman
• Orpheus Descending (World premiere)

Glimmerglass Opera

• The Good Soldier Schweik
• Lizzie Borden
• Rigoletto
  Rigoletto
  Rigoletto is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo. It was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on March 11, 1851...
  
  
• Little Women
• The Good Soldier's Schweik

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 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)

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

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...

 and WNET

WNET

WNET, channel 13 is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming...

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She directed the concert tour 'Kabbalah' by Stewart Wallace

Stewart Wallace

Stewart Wallace is an American composer and cantor. He has spent much of his career composing experimental operas, from the dance-centered Kabbalah to the surrealist Hopper's Wife...

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She directed the world premiere of the opera Where the Wild Things Are

Where The Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1973 , a 1980 opera, and, in 2009, a live-action feature film...

, music composed by Oliver Knussen

Oliver Knussen

Oliver Knussen CBE is a British composer and conductor.-Biography:Oliver Knussen was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His father, Stuart Knussen, was principal double bass of the London Symphony Orchestra. Oliver Knussen studied composition with John Lambert, between 1963 and 1969 and also received...

Faculty

Former faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis Institute of Music

The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. According to statistics compiled by U.S...

, Yale School of Drama

Yale School of Drama

The Yale School of Drama is a graduate professional school of Yale University providing training in every discipline of the theatre: acting, design , directing, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism, playwriting, stage management, sound design, technical design and production, and theater...

, The Juilliard School, and Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....

, and currently teaches at Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...

 (since 1992) and Mannes College and is a frequent guest teacher/visiting artist at Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University ....

 at NYU.

Books

• Arthur (1962)
• Three Ladies beside the sea (1963), illustrated by Edward Gorey
  Edward Gorey
  Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.-Early life:...
  
  , 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
  Edward Gorey
  Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.-Early life:...
  
  
• Herbert situation (1969)
• The Quiet Story (1963)
• Prince What-Shall-I-Do (1961), illustrated by Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson
  Sandy Wilson is an English composer and lyricist, best known for his musical The Boy Friend .-Biography:Wilson was born Alexander Galbraith Wilson in Sale, Greater Manchester, and was educated at Harrow School and Oriel College, Oxford. During the war he served in the Royal Ordnance Corps in Great...
  
  

External links

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