misper

"And the kidnapper knows we're treating Luke as a misper.

Gristhorpe put the misper report in front of her.

But she was far too tired, and too grateful for the misper-.

I don't remember a MisPer coming in.'

'I'm assuming you've made a start on MisPer records.'

'How come no one called Mackie ended up posted a MisPer?'

'She doesn't qualify as a MisPer.'

In 1996 Glyndebourne produced the first of Plaice's librettos, the children's opera Misper, written with the composer John Lunn.

It was commissioned by and written in 2006 for Glyndebourne Festival Opera as the third part of a trilogy of operas, the others being Misper (1997) and Zoë (2000).

Richard Morrison of The Times wrote that the creative team 'virtually redefined the genre with their splendidly feisty Misper at Glyndebourne.... Zoe by the same team is a giant leap forward again'.