Rachel J. Peters

Composer/librettist Rachel J. Peters writes primarily operas that sound like musicals and musicals that sound like operas. Highlights include Lesson Plan (On Site Opera), Companionship (Fort Worth Opera), Sketchbook for Ollie (Lyric Opera of Kansas City), The Wild Beast of the Bungalow (Oberlin Conservatory), Rootabaga Country (Sarasota Opera), Staggerwing (Opera Kansas), If You Can Prove That I Should Set You Free (Albany Symphony's Dogs of Desire), Ethel Smyth Plays Golf in Limbo (Semperoper Dresden), and Stretch (a fantasia) (New Georges). Rachel originally hails from St. Louis and currently lives in Brooklyn, a borough with an exceptionally high concentration of opera composers.