Brooke deRosa
Composer | Conductor | Vocalist | Filmmaker
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Brooke deRosa is an award-winning composer, conductor, vocalist, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She is equally at home composing for film, television, opera, theatre, and the concert stage.
Brooke’s first opera, The Monkey’s Paw, premiered in 2017 with Pacific Opera Project. In 2018, she orchestrated and conducted Rossini’s La Gazzetta for the same company—re-creating the long-lost “missing quintet.” Her 2019 operetta, Gunfight at the Not-So-OK Saloon, premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, earning three top honors: Pick of the Fringe, The Encore Producer’s Award, and The John Raitt Award for Best Music and Lyrics.
She has been commissioned multiple times by LA Opera, beginning with Songs of Orpheus (2020), a song cycle based on poetry from veterans. These works were featured on Renée Fleming’s series Music and the Mind. She later wrote An Elephant Never Forgets for LA Opera and continues to compose innovative operatic works, including Does Not Compute: A Love Story (2023, MC Arts), and Alice in Wonderland (2024, Wilshire Ebell Theatre), co-created with librettist Paige Lehnert.
In January 2025, her opera The Yellow Wallpaper premiered at Carnegie Hall, where Brooke also made her debut as a performer in the role of Jenney.
Her film and television scoring work includes The Merry Gentlemen, which premiered on Netflix in 2024 and became the #1 movie globally for two consecutive weeks.
As a conductor, Brooke has led performances of her own music and works by Mozart, Bizet, Verdi, Haydn, Elgar, and Puccini, including a tribute concert at the Redlands Bowl in honor of her mentor, Frank Fetta. She has conducted for TV shows such as Scandal, Luke Cage, Queens, and Run This Town, as well as music for Amazon, Linear Labs, and artists like Snoop Dogg, Cee-Lo Green, Estelle, and the estate of Luther Vandross. She also appeared as the Conductor in the television series Paris and Nicole: The Encore.
Her concert works include Valzer di Carnevale (premiered by the Culver City Symphony in 2023) and Off With Their Heads (performed at the Grammy Museum in 2024).
As an internationally accomplished opera performer, Brooke has been featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! stage, and the scores for Luke Cage and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events on Netflix. She has performed with LA Opera, Pacific Opera Project, the Pacific Symphony, San Bernardino Symphony, Redlands Symphony, and Long Beach Opera. Her performance venues include Greystone Mansion, private salons for author Gore Vidal, the Grammy Museum, and her 2025 debut at Carnegie Hall in The Yellow Wallpaper.
Brooke is also an award-winning filmmaker. During the pandemic, she began producing and directing short films, winning recognition for Sole Mates, The Sandman, Pyxis (Best Director), and The Theatre Ghost. Her screenplays Walter (sci-fi horror short) and Burial (feature-length horror) have also received multiple accolades.
Brooke is currently working on several new operas and film scores.
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Brooke deRosa is an award-winning composer, conductor, vocalist, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her opera The Yellow Wallpaper premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2025, where she also performed the role of Jenney. She composed the score for Netflix’s The Merry Gentlemen, which reached #1 globally. Brooke has conducted for TV shows including Luke Cage, Scandal, and Queens, and performed with LA Opera, Pacific Symphony, and more. Her works have been featured at the Grammy Museum, Redlands Bowl, and Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Also a celebrated filmmaker, her short films and screenplays have won numerous awards.​​
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