Press Coverage
“There’s Greek Drama, neo-cabaret, improvisation, comedy and tragedy too… Whatever else you won’t be bored” London Metro 30.07.09
“As the company that pioneered the 15-minute opera form and scored a world first by staging an opera inside a zorb ball, Tete a Tete has always been at the cutting edge.” The Independent 31.07.09
Independent on Sunday 090809– review with lead picture -
“The third night of Tête à Tête’s annual festival at Riverside Studios opened with spangles, smiles, suicidal urges, a singing horse and what director Bill Bankes-Jones called “more of a rehearsal than a performance”. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/tecircte-agrave-tecircte-riverside-studios-londonbrproms-24-25-27-royal-albert-hall–cadogan-hall-london-1769352.html
“THIS is one for people who don’t mind pot luck. Tête à Tête, a company dedicated to operatic innovation, provides a capacious umbrella under which small-scale “music theatre” groups come together for an annual informal festival of new, experimental work.” Daily Telegraph review 100809
The Times Review
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article6790334.ece
Web releases:
http://www.timeout.com/london/classical/article/280/tete-a-tete-festival-wallen
http://www.whatsonstage.com/opera
http://www.safeconcerts.com/newsitem.asp?nurn=3116
“Our most inventive and unconventional laboratory for new opera” - The Telegraph
“Commendable grassroots music theatre with much to enjoy – check it out” – Time Out
“Tete a Tete goes where other opera companies fear to tread, and its gregarious Festival takes no hostages” – BBC
Music Magazine
“the most prominent, punchy and persistent fringe-opera venture in the UK” – Classical Music
