Deborah Drattell

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Deborah Drattell (1956 – ) is an American composer. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and started her career in music as a violinist. Her compositions have been performed by the New York Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Tanglewood and Caramoor Music Festivals, and many other groups and venues.[1] Renowned for her operas[2], she rewrote the role of the villain in Nicholas and Alexandra, Rasputin, from baritone to tenor when Plácido Domingo expressed interest in the role.[3]

[edit] Selected Operas

  • Festival of Regrets (1999)
  • Marina Tsvetaeva (2000)
  • Lilith (2001)
  • Nicholas and Alexandra (2003, Los Angeles Opera), with Plácido Domingo as Rasputin, Nancy Gustafson as Alexandra, and Rod Gilfry as Nicholas.
  • Best Friends (2005)
  • Please daddy, don't touch me there!(2008)

[edit] Selected Orchestral Works

  • Clarinet Concerto: Fire Dances (1986)
  • The Fire Within (1989)
  • Sorrow is not Melancholy (1993)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Neil Stannard, Sorrow is not Melancholy: The Music of Deborah Drattell, Delos DE 1359, liner notes.
  2. ^ Deborah Drattell
  3. ^ The Urban Man


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