Forthcoming Productions
Leipzig Bach Festival 2010
Angelfighter
— an oratorio
by Harrison Birtwistle
libretto by Stephen Plaice
In Stephen's third collaboration with Birtwistle, Jacob wrestles with Yahweh's Angel.
“If man does not fight his god, how will he ever know him ?”
RIAS Kammerchor
Musikfabrik conducted by Stefan Asbury
Skt Thomas Kirche Leipzig
Sunday June 13th 2010 8pm
Culturgest
Paint Me
Stephen has been commissioned by the prestigious Lisbon arts centre Culturgest to write the libretto for a new Luis Tinoco chamber opera entitled Paint Me, scheduled for production later this year.
December 17/18th 2010
Culturgest
Lisbon
For tickets and info contact: culturgest@cgd.pt
Stephen Plaice is a dramatist working in film, theatre and opera. In the last decade he has become one of Britain's leading librettists and bookwriters for musical theatre.
His most recent opera production Confucius Says (2008), created with the composer Richard Taylor for Hackney Music Development Trust, won the Royal Philharmonic Society Award in the Education category.
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* Stephen is currently working with the team creating the High House People's Opera, a community opera to mark the arrival of the Royal Opera House's production workshops on the ROH Production Park in Purfleet. The opera will be devised and developed in artistic and educational processes between communities living and working in Thurrock and Purfleet and artists working for or connected with ROH. It will be produced in the autumn of 2010.
* Stephen's latest stage play Mick and Me, about an imaginary friendship with a certain rock-star in the 1960s, is currently in development at Watford Palace Theatre.