Kelley Rourke is a librettist, translator and dramaturg. Libretti include Lucy, Natural Systems, and Stay (with John Glover); The Jungle Book (with Kamala Sankaram); The Beekeeper (with Wang Lu); The Emissary (with Kenji Oh); Wilde Tales and And Still We Dream (with Laura Karpman); and Odyssey and Robin Hood (with Ben Moore). Her English adaptations of standard and not-so-stand operas have been hailed as “crackingly witty” (The Independent, London) and “remarkably well wedded to the music” (New York Times). Her work has been commissioned and performed by Washington National Opera, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, The Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Opera Parallèle, Chicago Opera Theater, Boston Lyric Opera, Young People’s Chorus of NYC, Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera, Carnegie Hall, Urban Arias, Met LiveArts, Houston Grand Opera’s HGOco, On Site Opera, San Francisco Conservatory, Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Nautilus Music-Theater, among others. Kelley has been a guest lecturer at Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and Walnut Hill School for the Arts. She is resident dramaturg at The Glimmerglass Festival and Artistic Advisor for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative. .

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