racheljpeters Rachel J. Peters Brooklyn, NY Composer/librettist Rachel J. Peters (b. 1977) writes all manner of works for the stage, primarily operas that sound like musicals and musicals that sound like operas, including: Lesson Plan (On Site Opera, Caramoor), Rootabaga Country (Sarasota Opera), Companionship (Fort Worth Opera), The Wild Beast of the Bungalow with Royce Vavrek (Oberlin Conservatory), No Ladies in the Lady’s Book (Utah Opera), Staggerwing (Opera Kansas), and Men I’m Not Married To (Cleveland Opera Theater) with Lisa DeSpain, Steve (Boston Opera Collaborative), Everything Comes to a Head with Margi Preus and Jean Sramek (Decameron Opera Coalition); Only Children with Michael R. Jackson (NYU Tisch, Lincoln Center Directors Lab), Tiny Feats of Cowardice with Susan Bernfield (NYC Fringe Festival), Write Left with John Walch, Tomato Red (UC Irvine), and Octopus Heart (NYU Steinhardt). Concert works include Ethel Smyth Plays Golf in Limbo (Semperoper Dresden), If You Can Prove That I Should Set You Free (Albany Symphony Dogs of Desire), I Live Here (Galapagos Art Space), and Fronds: The Wisdom of Fanny Fern (Walt Whitman Project). Her extensive catalogue of art songs and cabaret songs have been performed at Lincoln Center, Second Stage, The National Opera Center, Symphony Space, Ars Nova, Joe's Pub, and cabarets and theatres nationwide. She is a contributing composer/lyricist to the new generation of The AIDS Quilt Songbook. She holds a double B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis University and an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Rachel originally hails from St. Louis and currently lives in Brooklyn, a borough with an exceptionally high concentration of opera composers. racheljpeters’s tracks Tom's Aria About Pest Control by racheljpeters published on 2022-11-09T15:53:07Z Moon And Planet by racheljpeters published on 2022-08-02T00:27:33Z Spam I Am by racheljpeters published on 2022-08-01T23:45:16Z Rootabaga Country End Of Opening Scene by racheljpeters published on 2022-08-01T22:56:06Z Hit Me by racheljpeters published on 2022-06-14T15:17:23Z Queen Of The Night by racheljpeters published on 2022-01-19T01:37:39Z Women (from If You Can Prove That I Should Set You Free) by racheljpeters published on 2022-01-19T01:42:48Z Tearing St Vincent's Down by racheljpeters published on 2021-02-28T00:46:55Z Carissa by racheljpeters published on 2020-04-09T13:40:04Z Lovesong (excerpt) by racheljpeters published on 2020-02-08T16:32:39Z
Women (from If You Can Prove That I Should Set You Free) by racheljpeters published on 2022-01-19T01:42:48Z
