Deborah Drattell (born 1954) 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. She rewrote the role of the villain in Nicholas and Alexandra, Rasputin, from baritone to tenor when Plácido Domingo expressed interest in singing the role. 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) libretto by Wendy Wasserstein and Christopher Durang Selected orchestral works Clarinet Concerto: Fire Dances (1986) The Fire Within (1989) Sorrow is not Melancholy (1993) References 1956 births Living people Tulane University faculty 20th-century classical composers American women classical composers American classical composers American opera composers Musicians from Brooklyn Women opera composers 21st-century classical composers 21st-century American composers 20th-century American women musicians 20th-century American composers 21st-century American women musicians Classical musicians from New York (state) 20th-century women composers 21st-century women composers American women academics