Composer/librettist Rachel J. Peters writes operas that sound like musicals and musicals that sound like operas. Career highlights to date include: Lesson Plan (On Site Opera/Caramoor) Sketchbook for Ollie (Lyric Opera of Kansas City) Companionship (Fort Worth Opera/Virginia Arts Festival) The Wild Beast of the Bungalow (Oberlin Conservatory) No Ladies in the Lady's Book (Utah Opera) Rootabaga Country (Sarasota Opera) Staggerwing (Opera Kansas) If You Can Prove That I Should Set You Free (Albany Symphony) Ethel Smyth Plays Golf in Limbo (Semperoper Dresden) Stretch (a fantasia) (New Georges)…

Rachel J. Peters

Composer/librettist Rachel J. Peters writes operas that sound like musicals and musicals that sound like operas. Career highlights to date include: Lesson Plan (On Site Opera/Caramoor) Sketchbook for Ollie (Lyric Opera of Kansas City) Companionship (Fort Worth Opera/Virginia Arts Festival) The Wild Beast of the Bungalow (Oberlin Conservatory) No Ladies in the Lady's Book (Utah Opera) Rootabaga Country (Sarasota Opera) Staggerwing (Opera Kansas) If You Can Prove That I Should Set You Free (Albany Symphony) Ethel Smyth Plays Golf in Limbo (Semperoper Dresden) Stretch (a fantasia) (New Georges)…

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Composer/librettist Rachel J. Peters writes operas that sound like musicals and musicals that sound like operas.

Career highlights to date include:
Lesson Plan (On Site Opera/Caramoor)
Sketchbook for Ollie (Lyric Opera of Kansas City)
Companionship (Fort Worth Opera/Virginia Arts Festival)
The Wild Beast of the Bungalow (Oberlin Conservatory)
No Ladies in the Lady’s Book (Utah Opera)
Rootabaga Country (Sarasota Opera)
Staggerwing (Opera Kansas)
If You Can Prove That I Should Set You Free (Albany Symphony)
Ethel Smyth Plays Golf in Limbo (Semperoper Dresden)
Stretch (a fantasia) (New Georges)

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Freelance Gig
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YouTube
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Experience Level

Freelance Gig
Expert
Squarespace
Expert
YouTube
Expert
Microsoft Office
Expert
Finale
Expert
Facebook
Expert
Instagram
Expert

Language

German
Beginner
Italian
Beginner

Education

Double B.A. summa cum laude, Music and Theater Arts at Brandeis University
May 31, 1999
MFA, Musical Theatre Writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts
May 12, 2005

Qualifications

OPERA America Female Composer Discovery Grant 2022
June 30, 2023
No Ladies in the Lady's Book libretto published by E.C.Schirmer
December 31, 2019
Millay Arts Reisdency
December 2, 2022
Yaddo Residency
February 2, 2018
New Dramatists Composer-Librettist Studio Fellowship
February 28, 2010
American Opera Project Composers and the Voice Fellowship
August 31, 2012
John Duffy Institute for New Opera Fellowship
May 10, 2013 - March 31, 2019

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Education
    uniE608 Rachel J. Peters | Composer/Librettist: Highlights
    An overview of my portfolio of projects in opera, musical theatre, and vocal concert works. composer librettist opera musicals vocalmusic theatre…
    uniE608 Wild Beast of the Bungalow
    An operatic triptych by Rachel J. Peters and Royce Vavrek Based on and further inspired by Mermaid in the Jar by Sheila Heti World Premiere Production Commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting for Oberlin Conservatory, January 2020 opera newopera composer femalecomposer…
    uniE608 Companionship Trailer
    Music and Libretto by Rachel J. Peters Adapted from the short story by Arthur Phillips Presented by Virginia Arts Festival in collaboration with Norfolk State University Theatre Company Attucks Theatre, Norfolk, Virginia opera chamberopera nightofthelivingbread composer librettist…
    uniE608 End of Opening Scene
    From Rootabaga Country an opera for children Music and Libretto by Rachel J. Peters Adapted from Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg. Commissioned and Premiered by Sarasota Youth Opera youthopera childrensopera…
    uniE608 Everything Makes Music
    From Sketchbook for Ollie An Opera for Children Rachel J. Peters, composer and librettist Adapted from the story Life is a Jar of Paint by Bill Folman Commissioned and Premiered by Lyric Opera of Kansas City opera childrensopera youthopera composer librettist musiceducation…

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