Michael Roth

Michael Roth

Stratford: Composer for Henry V, A Word or Two, Twelfth Night, The Tempest; As You Like It, Dangerous Liaisons, Macbeth. Film/TV: Disney’s Princess and the Frog (music direction, music by Randy Newman); composer: Jews and Baseball, Termite, Your Name Here (Bill Pullman). Theatre: Over 250 Broadway/off-Broadway/regional credits; resident composer, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Repertory; collaborations with Tom Stoppard, Daniel Sullivan, Ethan McSweeny, Alice Ripley, many others. Recordings: Their Thought and Back Again (opera), available via iTunes, CDBaby; film work available via youtube.com/user/rothmusik. With Randy Newman: Harps and Angels, Faust, editing five songbooks; music/sound, UN’s Landmine Safety DVD; accompanist, singers from Marni Nixon to Alicia Keyes. Chamber première in Los Angeles by the Eclipse Quartet: Michael’s setting of Samuel Beckett’s Imagination Dead Imagine. Michael’s work at Stratford is dedicated to Nicholas Pennell.

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