We are joined by Rachel Peters, composer of “Rootabaga Country” which will premiere at Sarasota Opera this November. And have a fascinating discussion about Ethel Smythe who’s “Der Wald” was the first opera by a Woman Composer to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera.

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NOTES

• Prairie Songs,
  • part of the full-length The Wild Beast of the Bungalow
    created with the librettists, Royce vavrek
• Rootabaga Country based on Carl Sandberg’s Rootabaga Stories
  • Rachel is both the Composer and Librettist for this Youth Opera
  • Sarasota Opera, producing company
  • Three main characters are:
    • Gimme the Ax (father)
    • Please Gimme (son)
    • Ax Me No Questions (daughter)
  • Vanessa by Barber, produced by Sarasota Opera
  • Greg Trupiano, Sarasota Opera’s Director of Artistic Administration
    Also heads up the Walt Whitman Project
  • Conductor/Youth Opera Music Director: Jesse Martins
  • Stage Director: Martha Collins
  • Education Director: Ben Jewell-Plocher
  • Carmen by Bizet
• Ethel Smyth Plays Golf In Limbo, a monodrama for Mezzo and Piano
  Mezzo – Jennifer Beattie, Piano – Adam Marks
  being presented by Semperopera Dresden
  • Der Wald, by Ethel Smyth, first opera by a woman composer produced by the
    Metropolitan Opera.
  • Serenade and Violin Sonata by Ethel Smythe
  • Kaija Saariaho
    • L’Amour de loin
  • Ethel Smyth
    • Dame Ethel Mary Smyth, DBE (/ s m aɪ θ /, to rhyme with Forsyth; 23 April 1858 – 8 May 1944)
    • An English composer and a member of the women’s suffrage movement.
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