Tête à Tête brings uplifting, surprising, daring and intimate opera productions of the highest quality to the widest possible public, developing both artists and the art-form itself.
Tête à Tête itself has produced over 60 stage works by more than 40 different composers, for audiences throughout the UK and abroad.
In addition, for the last five years the company has created a platform for the work of over a hundred other companies and many hundreds of artists in Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival.
Tête à Tête: The Operas Online
Whether you’re an opera lover, artist, promoter, funder or simply looking for a “great night in”, there is definitely something for you on these pages. Click the title above and you can watch and listen to new operas from the UK produced between 1999 and the present day.
17-25 March 2012
Riverside Studios
Circus Tricks by Michael Henry & Adey Grummet is set in the spellbinding, fleeting world of the circus, where laughter is tragic, tears are hilarious and wonder both wrenches the heart and makes it soar!
The knife thrower’s assistant cannot stand the pain of her secret love for the knife thrower, an acrobat fights the world through the bottle, his brother struggles to catch him one more time, the trapeze artist is entranced by the pursuit of a single moment of weightlessness, the horse dreams of running in straight lines and the contortionist is just plain lonely.
And then there’s the elephant…
Six short extracts from Circus Tricks in development
performed at Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2009
Great Expectations
A series of short operas created and performed by leading composers and performers from the Royal College of Music. 21 & 22 May, 2012
