Title: William Michael Rooke
Content:  William Michael Rooke (29 September 1794 – 14 October 1847) was an Irish violinist and composer.
Title: William Michael Rooke
Content:  Born William Michael O'Rourke in South Great George's Street, Dublin, he was the son of a local tradesman. He studied counterpoint with Philip Cogan and was probably self-taught on the violin. In 1813, he took up music as a profession and anglicised his surname to Rooke. The young Michael William Balfe was among his pupils on the violin (between 1815 and 1817). While chorus master and deputy leader of the orchestra at Crow Street Theatre between 1817 and 1823, Rooke composed his first opera Amilie, or the Love Test, which, however, was not performed until 1837 (at Covent Garden Theatre, London). Balfe himself sang in the opera at 
Title: William Michael Rooke
Content:  1838 performance in Dublin. In 1821, he moved to England and had his musical play The Pirate performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, in January 1822. He performed in Birmingham in 1826 and in London, where he was chorusmaster at Drury Lane under Thomas Simpson Cooke (from 1826) led the orchestra at the Vauxhall Gardens concerts (1830–1833) under Henry Bishop. Rooke's opera Henrique (1839), although favourably received, was withdrawn, possibly following arguments with William Macready, the manager, and his further works Cagliostro and The Valkyrie remained unperformed. Besides operas, Rooke also composed a number of songs. Rooke died at Fulham and was buried in Brompton Cemetery.
Title: Matthew Rooke
Content:  Matthew Rooke is a musician, composer and performer who also works in producing and directing theatre work. Born in England, he is of Scottish and Gabonese descent. He is the current Chief Executive/Artistic Director of The Maltings Theatre & Cinema, Berwick-upon-Tweed. His work spans an eclectic and diverse range of forms and creative partners, spanning the worlds of opera, classical music and contemporary jazz, rock and traditional music. His musical partners and collaborations range from Sir John Tavener, Billy Childish, Nitin Sawhney, Ric Sanders, Fred Thelonious Baker, The James Taylor Quartet and The National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. In the theatre he has created scores for Theatre Royal Stratford East, Talawa, The Leicester Haymarket and the Royal National Theatre. He has worked as Musical Director and arranger for Directors/Authors such as Yvonne Brewster, Tim Supple, Mark Bramble, John Dexter, Philip Hedley, Tim Flavin, Barrie Keeffe and Henry Krieger and with actors such as Paul Barber, Helen McCrory, Miriam Karlin, Donna Croll, Mona Hammond, Gary Shail, Mark McGann, David Harewood, Cathy Tyson, and Bonnie Langford.
Title: Michael Roe
Content:  Michael Roe (born October 12, 1954) is an American, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is a member of the band The 77s.
Title: Matthew Rooke
Content:  orchestrator/composer, before being invited to join the Arts Council as lead officer for establishing the African and Caribbean and Asian music circuits and as producer of the Arts Council recordings programme, managing the Arts Council's investment in recordings by composers of the stature of Nicholas Maw, Anthony Payne and Sir John Tavener, notably The Protecting Veil. This was followed by a period as Music Director of the Scottish Arts Council, during which time he made support for Scottish traditional music, jazz and other diverse music forms an equal priority for the council and meanwhile he continued to work in Theatre in England. On leaving 
Title: Steven Rooke
Content:  Rooke joined theatre company Shake and Stir as a Masterclass instructor.
Title: Billy Rooks
Content:  William Rooks (14 December 1890–1972) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Accrington Stanley and Blackpool.
Title: Steven Rooke
Content:  Rooke graduated from Noosa District State High School in 1996, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) from the Queensland University of Technology in 2000.
Title: Leon Rooke
Content:  Leon Rooke, CM (born September 11, 1934) is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Rooke helped to found the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 1989. In 2002, Rooke championed The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence in that year's edition of Canada Reads. Rooke's work also appears in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. In 2007, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

Question: What genre is William Michael Rooke?
Answer: opera.
lyric drama.
European opera.
Western classical opera.