Forthcoming Productions

Icarus

Music: Michael Zev Gordon
Libretto: Stephen Plaice
Directed by Bill Bankes-Jones

What happens when you want your son to be a high-flier?

Icarus wing

An extract of Icarus is to be performed at the Linbury Studio at ROH as part of their Exposure series 16-18th February 2012

Imago

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

7th- 9th March 2013 Glyndebourne

Icarus image

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 film, theatre and opera. In the last decade he has become one of Britain's leading librettists and bookwriters for musical theatre.

News

* With the composer Rolf Martinsson, Stephen is exploring an adaptation of Conrad's Amy Foster for a production in 2016.

* Stephen will be writing the libretto for the winning composer of the OperaTwelve / Iris Theatre opera competition. The winner will be announced in February. A production, on the theme of Hermathroditus, will be mounted in September 2012.

* As well as the forthcoming community opera Imago, Glyndebourne Education has commissioned Stephen to write the libretto for Lovers Walk, a new youth opera composed by Glyndebourne's new composer in residence Luke Styles, for production in October 2012.

* Stephen is also currently developing a one-man show about Sir Thomas Wyatt with the actor and producer Gregor Truter. Gregor was the original Tony Mancini from Trunks, and recently toured his one-man show about Nelson to excellent reviews.

* 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).