Librettist
At Seattle Opera in 2023/24: Lucidity
Hometown: New York, NY
Seattle Opera Debut
David Cote is a playwright, librettist, and critic. This season: Blind Injustice with composer Scott Davenport Richards and MasterVoices at the Rose Theater in New York City; Meltdown with composer Stefan Weisman and co-librettist Hai-Ting Chinn at National Sawdust; and regional premieres of Lucidity at Opera in the Heights (Houston) and Opera Ithaca. Previous operas: Blind Injustice at Peak Performances and Cincinnati Opera; Three Way with composer Robert Paterson at Nashville Opera and Brooklyn Academy of Music; and The Scarlet Ibis with Stefan Weisman at the Prototype Festival and Chicago Opera Theater. Cote wrote the text for Nkeiru Okoye’s Black Lives Matter monodrama for baritone and orchestra, Invitation to a Die-In. Recordings include Blind Injustice (NAXOS), Three Way (American Modern Recordings), and In Real Life (AMR). His television and theater coverage appears in The A.V. Club, Observer, 4 Columns, and American Theatre. David is the author of popular companion books about the Broadway hits Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Spring Awakening, Jersey Boys, and Wicked.
Last Updated: October 2024