Rhoda Levine
Rhoda Levine (* in the 20th century in New York City, USA) is an American opera director, choreographer, children's book author and high school teacher.
Life
Levine received a bachelor's degree at Bard College in Annandale -on-Hudson, New York. She has performed in the last decades in many national and international opera directed opera performances and other musical events. In opera performances at the Glimmerglass Opera in Cooperstown (New York), the Kentucky Opera in Louisville (Kentucky) and at the Nederlandse Opera led them repeatedly directing.
Levine choreographed musical performances on Broadway, in London's West End and other places. These include the world premiere performances of Viktor Ullmann's The Emperor of Atlantis, or the death - denial at the Chicago Opera Theatre or the two operas by Anthony Davis X: The Life and Time of Malcolm X in 1985 at the New York City Opera, or 2007 of Wakondas Dream with Opera Omaha.
In Glyndebourne Levine, 1985 was director at the world premiere of Where the Wild Things Are, a children's opera after the submission of Maurice Sendak with the music of Scottish composer Oliver Knussen. The libretto of the opera Opus Number Zoo by the Italian composer Luciano Berio (originally 1951) from 1970 is from Levine. The opera was performed in 1981 in a revised version in German, Italian and English with a quintet again.
Currently Levine lives in New York City, where she is the artistic director of the only improvised opera company of the city, the Play It by Ear Inc..
Teaching
Levine taught acting and improvisation at the Curtis Institute of Music in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School in New York City and at Northwestern University in Evanston (Illinois ). Since 1992 she teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and the Mannes College of Music, also in Manhattan.