Forthcoming Productions

ROH EDUCATION

HOT HOUSE

Music: Julian Grant
Libretto: Stephen Plaice
Director: Tom Guthrie
Artistic Director: Gareth Malone

To pay for his newly renovated theatre, John Kemble attempts to stage an Italian Opera in the Theatre Royal Covent Garden, while the audience  demands the restoration of the Old Prices  and the old familiar shows.

Hot House

Royal Opera House main stage Sunday July 22nd : read more ...

Iris Theatre

FIGS IN HONEY

Music: Mike Solomon
Librettist: Stephen Plaice
Director: Daniel Winders

What happens when you've got both? The Hermaphroditus opera.

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21st - 23rd September 2012, Actor's Church Covent Garden

Glyndebourne Young Voices

LOVERS WALK

Music: Luke Styles
Librettist: Stephen Plaice
Director: Tom Guthrie

Four couples from different times share the same courting path with one another.

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Sunday 14th October 6pm, Birley Centre Eastbourne

Saturday October 20th time tbc, Jerwood Studio Glyndebourne


Imago

Composer: Orlando Gough
Librettist: Stephen Plaice
Director: Susannah Waters

7th- 9th March 2013 Glyndebourne

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The residents of a care home send their youthful avatars into cyberspace to live their lives again in a system called Imago. Eighty-something Elizabeth sends eighteen-year-old Lisette as her representative. In Imago Lisette falls in love with Gulliver, but who is his real host?

A community opera for Glyndebourne Education

images from three operas

Stephen Plaice is a dramatist working in opera, theatre and film. In the last decade he has become one of Britain's leading librettists and bookwriters for musical theatre.

News

* Stephen has begun work on his adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novella Amy Foster with the composer Rolf Martinsson.  The production is scheduled for the Royal Swedish Opera in 2016.
Royal Swedish Opera House

* With the composer Julian Broughton and the conductor Oliver Gooch, Stephen is currently developing a children's opera The Pedlar of Swaffham for Opera East.

* YouTube is now hosting clips of Act One and Act Two of the recent Culturgest production of Paint Me in Portugal (the links will open in a new tab or window).