‘Sloth’ from B&7B
Opera Spring 2022
Music for ‘Sloth’ by Lucie Treacher
Produced by The Opera Story
Performed by Henry Waddington
Premiered at Brixton Jamm April 2022
Produced by The Opera Story
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“In just seven dates, we can guarantee you will find your true love’s destiny...” Seven acts, seven dates, seven sins, each written by a different team of the composers and librettists, in a multimedia format.
Review by Seen and Heard International : "The music for ‘Sloth’ is a brilliant realisation of the animal (composer Lucie Treacher doing the honours here) while Henry Waddington makes the most of the long – ever so long – vocal melismas.... Rarely have I seen a production as inspiring as this. In a tiny performance space (audience probably around 30-40 max), via the wizardry of electronics and with clear reference to the way we communicate and have communicated via screens mid- and post-pandemic, we are reminded of eternal myths and truths. Amazing."
To the Lighthouse
Opera Spring 2022
Music by Lucie Treacher
Commissioned by Scottish Opera for their Opera Highlights Tour across Scotland
Text adapted from Viginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Directed by John Savournin, Set design by Janis Hart
Performed by Monica McGhee, Margo Arsane, Shengzhi Ren, Dan Shelvey and Mark Sandon
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To the Lighthouse weaves together scenes from the 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. Mr and Mrs Ramsay holiday every year at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family and friends. These stays are teeming with noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday family life. As time passes, so it brings war and death. The music takes three different memories from these holidays: the family at home dreaming and arguing, loss, and sailing out to the local lighthouse after Mrs Ramsay’s death. Lucie is a fan of Virginia Woolf’s work and always wanted to set her vivid poetic language to music.
The Opera toured to 18 locations with Scottish Opera across Scotland - including Glasgow, Wick, Barra, Harris and Troon!
Please get in touch if you'd like to have a copy of the score.
Zoo!
Participatory Opera for audiences with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Spring 2023
Music by Lucie Treacher
Words by Kate Wakeling
Commissioned by English Touring Opera, toured across schools in England and Luxembourg in Spring 2023
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Full of adventure, singing and multi-sensory elements, Zoo! teaches us all about communication, confidence and how the most important thing in life is to be oneself. See some footage and interviews from the production as broadcast on National News in Luxembourg.
Episodes
Operatic Songs Summer 2020
Music and Images for Episode 2 and 12 by Lucie Treacher
Words by J L Williams
Performed by Oliver Brignall
Created remotely in the lockdown, commissioned by The Opera Story as part of their Episodes Series
2020 Royal Philarmonic Society Inspiration Award winner
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Episodes brought together several young composers and librettists to create a series of short clips featuring emerging singers and musicians during the coronavirus lockdown. Lucie wrote the music for Episode 2 and Episode 7.
Review by the Arts Desk: “I’ve saved by far the best for last. Composer Lucie Treacher also created the beautiful visuals for her piece “Song of the Rocks”, with words by Jennifer Williams. Here the music and production is extremely sophisticated and alluring, layered and complex where the others are one-note. The film is like an art installation, moving through sped-up images of a walk along a shingle beach, and sustains interest even without the folk-like melody and textured accompaniment, sometimes a cathedral-like choral reverberation, sometimes a military pulse and at others simple accordion chords. The text describes the sudden, virus-inspired switch from the rumble of modern life to a new state - “listen as the cars go quiet/listen as the drills go silent” – and we are able to tune into a new music of a slower day to day life where there is room to “listen as the whales sing louder”. It is a bewitching piece of work and I’ve watched it more than ten times within tiring of it. This is a composer I want to hear more of.”
Moonlight
Opera Summer 2015
Music by Lucie Treacher
Words by Joanne Harris
Directed by Bill Bankes-Jones
Commissioned by Tete a Tete Opera
Performed at Kings Place by Joanne Harris and Adam Sullivan with the Chroma Ensemble
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The Queen of the Jellyfish falls in love with her counterpart in the sky- the Moon...
Watch a snippet from the show below