The Magic Flute (PG) 6.15pm
A film version of Mozart’s opera masterpiece sung in English with a screenplay written by Stephen Fry.

La Bohème (PG) 8.50pm
A film based on Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece of Italian opera.

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operas all over the riverside studios, in foyers, theatres, and public places across the borough including: Ravenscourt Park, Bishop’s Park, Lyric Square and Fulham Palace.

Golden Years – Music: Jordan Hunt & La JohnJoseph

The Upper Clapton Senior Citizens Light Operatic Society is back in town! Septuagenarian soprano Livinia Greengarden is about to take to the stage in the most wildly anticipated show of her career. In the audience is notoriously prim, Claudine d’Armoire, Hackney’s art’s council funding co-ordinator. Will all go well?

Lear TV – Music: Joanna Lee. Words: Howard Skempton

Inspired by Edward Lear’s The Duck and the Kangaroo. Set in a news channel (a super-dramatic American one) two presenters; Ed (a vain and gregarious duck) and Sheila (a stunning bimbo of a kangaroo) fall in love and are leaving the screen to ‘hop the whole world three times round’.

Toxic Assets – Music: Joe Cutler. Words: Peter Burt

Mr Green comes to see Ms Wise about opening an account to save money to buy a house. Mr Wise persuades him to opt for a high interest structured product and to part with large sums of money deposited in a piggy bank. What happens next is a modern day parable based on our current ‘credit crunch’ times.

The Inventor… - Music & Words: Dominique Le Gendre.

An athletic and twinkly-eyed Eastern European waiter flirts playfully with a giggly lady-who-lunches  on a sunny terrace. Through an exchange filled with double entendre we hear his vigorous lament and yearning for a place in his own corrupt, poverty stricken country.

Performers: Singers Danny Broad & Louise Mott, Accompanied by Tim Murray/JP Gandy and Stuart King, Director Bill Bankes-Jones.

Dates/ Times & Venues

Thursday 30 July, 5pm Lyric Square

Friday 31 July, 5pm Furnival Gardens

Thursday 6 August, 5pm Lyric Square

Friday 7 August, 5 pm Furnival Park

Saturday 8 August,  3pm Lyric Sq, 4pm Ravenscourt Park, 5pm Furnvial Gardens

Sunday 9 August,  2pm Fileders Meadow Bishops Park, 3pm Normand Park

Thursday 13 August, 5pm Lyric Square

Friday 14 August, 5pm Furnival Gardens

Saturday 15 August, 3pm Lyric Square, 4pm Ravenscourt Park, 5pm Furnival Gardens

Sunday 16 August, 2pm Fielders Meadow Bishop’s Park, 3pm Normand Park

Featuring:

Sarah Dacey (soprano), Rob Fokkens (compère),Matt Dibble (clarinet), Alice Dixon (cello), Belinda Jones (piano).

Cabaret Fou make a welcome return after their 2007 Festival performance. They explore the genre of cabaret song, from its beginnings in French cafes, post war America, to 21^st Britain.  A hugely exciting range of output will come from Laurence Crane, Geoff Hannan, Roger Marsch, Graham Fitkin and Kerry Andrew. Feel entertainingly uncomfortable with songs that are rude, lewd, disturbingly beautiful, provocative, sinister, hilarious, politically twisted, melancholic and definitely sadistic.

“colourful, challenging and witty. There’s a talent there for the irreverent.” –  Classical Source

 www.robertfokkens.co.uk

Music: Laura Bowler.

Words: Alasdair Middleton.

Did you enjoy fairy stories as a child? Be careful, this production puts the Grimm into Brothers Grimm with a dark re-telling of some of the classics with no reference to Disney. With classic Tête à Tête theatrical pace enjoy these witty, sassy dark tales of magic and mayhem. Definitely not one for the children!

Director/Editor: Anne Gallagher.

Music: Paul Jones.

Welsh National Opera went to the beach to introduce young people to opera by exploring the connection between music and sport.  Filming over five days along the beautiful South Wales coastline captured their stories, songs and surfing experiences. This resulting film screening and original soundtrack (played live at the festival by 13 musicians and singers) tells the stories of 32 young people from across the South Wales Valleys.

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Music: Richard Barnard.

Words: Karen Hayes

The writing and life experience of two different generations of Welsh valley residents have been bought together by asking “what is it like to get old?” and “What will it be like when I am old?” Older members of a residential home and the Kidz R Us Choir, supported by Welsh National Opera’s creative team have helped to develop Songs For Our Age. The essence of the Welsh valleys are beautifully captured, giving us a window into the lives of those often forgotten or unheard. Also to be performed privately at a local old people’s home.

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Director: Karen Gillingham.

Composer: Hannah Conway.

Once upon a time every child was a mermaid, transformed into human form and destined to live forever. Unaware of the spell that binds them, the children live happily, until one night they are invited to return to the world of water. Their choices bring horrific consequences. Inspired by Dvořák’s Rusalka this is an energetic, exciting and enchanting collaboration between established artists and young people.

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A story that has never before been told.  A stream of music against a backdrop of images takes the audience on a journey to Belize (their country of origin), to London, to New York; crucial marking places in the Wallens’ personal and professional lives.  Their unconventional upbringing forced them to re-define and challenge notions of belonging, distance, and boundaries. These have also been important driving forces in their music-making. WALLEN will be the first time that Byron and Errollyn have collaborated together as a duet; in this unforgettable show, bringing together the genres of classical, jazz, world and popular music.

www.errollynwallen.com

www.byronwallen.co.uk

www.myspace.com/byronwallen

“Among the highlights of the eclectic Tête à Tête Festival is Errollyn Wallen’s family-inspired show. She tells Time Out about how she and her brother turned blood into music” see below link.

http://www.timeout.com/london/classical/article/280/tete-a-tete-festival-wallen