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Luna Pearl Woolf
Composer (Anne of Green Gables & A Prayer for Owen Meany)

The music of award-winning composer and librettist Luna Pearl Woolf has been called “brilliant ... profoundly moving” (Opera Going Toronto), praised for its “psychological nuances and emotional depth” (NY Times) and described as “gorgeous, sometimes startling in its layering and detail” (The Whole Note).

With commissions for large-scale dramatic works from New York’s Perelman Performing Arts Center, Tapestry Opera and Washington National Opera, among others, Woolf is known for her contributions to new opera. She received a 2021 GRAMMY Award nomination for the composer-portrait album, LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood.

Commissioned by Opéra Magnolia and Pacific Opera Victoria in the dual role of librettist and composer, Woolf is creating A Prayer for Owen Meany, an opera based on John Irving’s internationally beloved novel. A Prayer for Owen Meany will premiere in the 2028-2029 season.

Woolf’s opera Jacqueline, about legendary cellist Jacqueline du Pré, with libretto by Royce Vavrek and commissioned by Tapestry Opera, premiered in 2020 and has been remounted five times across North America. The opera was hailed as an “extraordinary piece, one that deserves an unquestioned place in the 21st-century canon” (The Globe and Mail), and has been released as an audio recording.

The oratorio Number Our Days, with concept and libretto by David Van Taylor, was commissioned by PAC NYC for its inaugural 2023-2024 season, receiving a thunderous response: “extraordinary, completely original...new and electrifying,” “death-affirming, life-inciting,” “elegiac, funny, haunting...poetic, and utterly unique.”

Woolf is Director of Creative Development at Opéra Magnolia, and Director of the Opera Creation Forum, a professional development intensive that guides writers and composers through the collaborative process of new opera creation. She is co-founder of Oxingale Productions, a ground-breaking record label and music publisher supporting new music by lyrical and innovative contemporary composers.

A dual Canadian and American citizen, Woolf grew up in Western Massachusetts and lives in Montréal, Quebec.

Luna Pearl Woolf
Composer (Anne of Green Gables & A Prayer for Owen Meany)

The music of award-winning composer and librettist Luna Pearl Woolf has been called “brilliant ... profoundly moving” (Opera Going Toronto), praised for its “psychological nuances and emotional depth” (NY Times) and described as “gorgeous, sometimes startling in its layering and detail” (The Whole Note).

With commissions for large-scale dramatic works from New York’s Perelman Performing Arts Center, Tapestry Opera and Washington National Opera, among others, Woolf is known for her contributions to new opera. She received a 2021 GRAMMY Award nomination for the composer-portrait album, LUNA PEARL WOOLF: Fire and Flood.

Commissioned by Opéra Magnolia and Pacific Opera Victoria in the dual role of librettist and composer, Woolf is creating A Prayer for Owen Meany, an opera based on John Irving’s internationally beloved novel. A Prayer for Owen Meany will premiere in the 2028-2029 season.

Woolf’s opera Jacqueline, about legendary cellist Jacqueline du Pré, with libretto by Royce Vavrek and commissioned by Tapestry Opera, premiered in 2020 and has been remounted five times across North America. The opera was hailed as an “extraordinary piece, one that deserves an unquestioned place in the 21st-century canon” (The Globe and Mail), and has been released as an audio recording.

The oratorio Number Our Days, with concept and libretto by David Van Taylor, was commissioned by PAC NYC for its inaugural 2023-2024 season, receiving a thunderous response: “extraordinary, completely original...new and electrifying,” “death-affirming, life-inciting,” “elegiac, funny, haunting...poetic, and utterly unique.”

Woolf is Director of Creative Development at Opéra Magnolia, and Director of the Opera Creation Forum, a professional development intensive that guides writers and composers through the collaborative process of new opera creation. She is co-founder of Oxingale Productions, a ground-breaking record label and music publisher supporting new music by lyrical and innovative contemporary composers.

A dual Canadian and American citizen, Woolf grew up in Western Massachusetts and lives in Montréal, Quebec.