Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2012 took place at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith London, 2 – 19 August 2012.
Hundreds of performers presented over 70 performances from 30 companies presenting entirely new work from dozens of composers involving hundreds of artists, a whole host of fringe activities and this year even a 2-day conference for singers. Clicking the images will take you to the information page for each show, including video footage (where available).
All to Play For
Opera Room Productions
Amerika
Tête à Tête
Anaïs Nin
Ensemble BPM
The Boy From Brazil
Cosmica Productions
The Chainmakers’ Strike
And Then We Danced
The Daisy Chain
Gestalt Opera
Fragments of Sun
Efthymiou Music
The Francis Bacon Opera
The Crowe Ensemble
Foyer Performances
Hera’s List
ignite @ sounds of the engine house
Insein
Boii Theatre
Instant Doodle Opera
CHROMA
The Interrogation
of Adam Pollo
APRA Prodiuctions
It Makes No Difference
Simone Spagnolo
Jilted
Flam Productions
Just So
Lucid Arts
The Lady of Satis House
Jacques Cohen
Lite Bites
Tête à Tête
Lite Bites Concert
Tête à Tête
Making Arrangements
Tête à Tête
The Magic Mirror/
One Small Step
Filament Theatre
Mermaid of Zennor
The Constella Orchestra
Mike the Headless Chicken
Gang of Rogues
Opera & Music Theatre Forum Fundraising Symposium
The Physicists
(Part One)
Renard Music Theatre
Queen of Names
Ergo Phizmiz
A Quiet Life
Zeptepi/
Release the Hounds
Salty Sarah
FREE Foyer performance
The Sandman
Size Zero Opera Company
SensoryO
Scottish Opera
The Shadow
of the Wave
The Shadow
Opera Group
The Singing Entrepreneur Forum
Thrashing the
Sea God
Joby Burgess
Three to Midnight
future opera company
The Trial of Jean Rhys
Worlds End Opera
Twitching
UNLEASHED
Fourfortytwo
A Voice of One Delight
McCaldin Arts
A Wild Evening
with the
Papin Sisters
An Eye for an Eye
The Yellow Dress
Opera at Home
Week 1 Round-up Video
Week 2 Round-up Video
Festival Round-up Video
- Guardian Guide Pick of the Week
- Independent on Sunday Critics Choice
- The Times Critics Choice
- The Independent Opera of the Week
- The Independent I 5 Best Classical & Opera
- The Independent I Everybody’s Talking About
- Time Out Critics Choice
- The Times Arts Editor’s pick for What’s on in London today
- Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine unmissable events for August
…the programming is weird and wonderful, offering both comic and challenging chamber operas and music-theatre pieces on a bewildering range of subjects. There won’t be a single Olympic-themed work in sight, and there is even an opera about a headless chicken.
Time Out, 25 July 2012 – click the image to read the whole article
Opera of the week: Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, Riverside Studios, London W6
The Independent
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