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.

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

 * Republished by the New York Review of Books in June 2010.
 * Republished by the New York Review of Books in June 2010.
 * Republished by the New York Review of Books in June 2010.
 * Republished by the New York Review of Books in June 2010.
 * Republished by the New York Review of Books in June 2010.