Tête à Tête 2018 Season Announced
Full press release below Tête à Tête 2018 Season Press Fact Sheet
Music Theatre NOW Competition
Do you have a piece of work you are really proud of, that you would like to be seen by lots more people all round the world? Then you should certainly enter the Music Theatre NOW Competition which runs each year. Music Theatre NOW is an organisation dedicated to the worldwide exchange … Continued
Tête à Tête In Conversation – Casting
Do you want to cast a new opera? Then this is for you. With over 50 years of collective experience Tête à Tête’s Consultant and freelance casting director Sarah Playfair is joined in conversation by Tête à Tête’s Artistic Director, Bill Bankes-Jones. Interviewed by Olivia Brown from Wildkat Sarah and Bill share what works, what … Continued
Tête à Tête – International Society of Contemporary Music’s 2018 World Music Days Festival
We are delighted that composer Laurence Osborn has been shortlisted for the International Society of Contemporary Music’s 2018 World Music Days Festival in Beijing this Spring, for April in the Amazon, commissioned and produced by Tête à Tête, with a libretto by Theo Merz. Tête à Tête’s Artistic Director, Bill Bankes-Jones, first came … Continued
OMTF: The Value of Inclusion
Our very own Bill Bankes-Jones is also Chair of OMTF the UK network of companies working to create an environment in which opera and music theatre can flourish. To that end OMTF delivered a one day diversity and inclusion conference The Value of Inclusion in London on October 18th 2017. Artists and managers … Continued
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2017 Press Report – Read It Here
Fearless, admirable and adventurous are just some of the words used by the press to describe our 10th Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival. There is the occasional mention of other words to describe it too, but that’s the whole point… the Festival is a place to come together to share ideas, experiments and … Continued
Exclusive Opinion: Waste Paper Opera Company
Having brought two shows to Tête à Tête in so many years Birmingham based Waste Paper Opera Company’s Artistic Directors James Oldham and Klara Kofen have been exploring all things opera and AI recently. Read Klara’s thoughts on it here: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GENERATES LIBRETTO. AUDIENCE MORE AMUSED BY AI THAN BY MOZART. THE END IS … Continued
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2017 – Report and Video
After 3 action-packed weeks, the curtain on Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival has fallen for the 10th time. During 24 July – 13 August 2017, we travelled across Kings Cross, putting on over 35 productions which featured over 300 artists, who were watched by over 3,000 people! Thank you to everyone who made … Continued
Tête à Tête Belongings on the BBC
BBC Arts Correspondent Colin Paterson joined the Tête à Tête Belongings team on the eve of our Festival as it swept out of Aberdeen on the Caledonian Sleeper it’s way to London for the start of our Festival. Live train-based opera… featuring Zosia Jagodzinska (cello) and Robert Lewis (tenor). Composed by Sam Bordoli with words by Bill Bankes-Jones … Continued
Tête à Tête launch new podcast opera ‘Road Memoir’
Tête à Tête is delighted to announce the launch of a brand new podcast opera ‘Road Memoir’ in partnership with Olivier Award-winning composer Martin Ward. Road Memoir is a dramatic, moving and innovative twelve-episode podcast opera, combining solo soprano with spoken text, music and sound design to tell the fictional story of an individual’s journey … Continued