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Dewi in the Deep

Children’s Musical Audiobook Summer 2023 and Opera show Spring 2024

Music and Story by Lucie Treacher and Joaquim Badia

Premiered at the Royal Opera House, London in April 2024.

Produced by The Opera Story

  • Originally a musical audiobook for children about an eight-year-old girl who travels to the Arctic with her pet tortoise, Tortellini, in search of solutions for climate change. The audiobook was then reworked into a show, directed by John Savournin, which was performed at the Royal Opera House in Spring 2024. Listen to some snippets from the audiobook below... Buy the full audiobook on bandcamp. Snippets from the show coming soon.

    Audiobook cast include tenor Satriya Krisna and Paul Elliot.

    Show cast include Ledi, Robin Bailey, Matthew Palmer and Chiara Vinci

Portals

Piece for Cello and Jazz Trio Summer 2021

Commissioned by Koncertzāle Cēsis, Latvia for the International Cello Festival

Performed at Koncertzāle Cēsis (2021) and Cafe Fidelio (2023)

Music by Lucie Treacher

  • Watch an extract of the piece and hear the full work. First performed by Margarita Balanas (Cello), Rudolf Dankfelds (Kit), Daria Ioana Tudor (Piano) and Oskars Bokanovs (Bass).

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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

  • 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.​

The Snow Beast

Children’s Theatre show and Audiobook Winter 2021

Devised and performed by Scratchworks Theatre

Show/Audiobook written by Jack Dean

Music by Lucie Treacher

  • Lucie wrote and performed the music for The Snow Beast in 2021, touring to a variety of theatres around the South of England in the Winter of 2021.

    “In the snowy town of Seldomberg test tubes bubble, experiments explode and new inventions whirr at the annual science fair. With nothing but her mother’s old research book, her owl assistant Maude and her sense of adventure to help her, Faina sets off on an action packed exploration, encountering extraordinary spectacles and mountainous obstacles as they battle through the wild, wintry wilderness in search of the truth.”

‘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

  • “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." 

Brenda’s Baby

Theatre show (streamed) Summer 2022

Written by Tom Finlay

Directed by Stephen Kelly / C21 Theatre

Music by Lucie Treacher

Filmed and Edited by Matt Faris 

Starring Rosie McClelland 

Funded by Arts Council Northern Ireland

  • Brenda's Baby is a story that explores the struggle of a mother who has her newborn taken into care after only five days, due to her drug additction. A four act/four part show set on the streets of Belfast.

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

  • 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 

  • 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.”

Dvorak Cello Concerto Arrangement

Arrangment Spring 2021

Music by Dvorak

Arranged for String Quartet by Lucie Treacher

Commissioned by City Music Foundation for Latvian cellist, Margarita Balanas

Premiered in London April 2021 at The Great Hall, St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

Watch the full video here

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

  • The Queen of the Jellyfish falls in love with her counterpart in the sky- the Moon...

    Watch a snippet from the show below

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