Considering how challenging it has been recently to get new work off the ground, we went back to our Festival Alumni from the last few years to tell us what they are up to at the moment, how they are keeping up their creative momentum in 2022, and how you can find out more. Al White … Continued
Times are hard for artists right now, and we want to do as much as we can to help. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share resources, articles by inspiring creatives, and things we found inspiring to help you as much as we can. To start off with, here’s a guide to some things … Continued
Tête à Tête is proud to have signed up to Music Declares Emergency. We’re standing alongside thousands of other signatories to say there’s #NoMusicOnADeadPlanet. We’ve already been working hard to deliver and run work as sustainably as possible, tackling the issue head-on in our own productions, and raise new generations of opera makers … Continued
Ahead of the work-in-progress sharing of ‘While There’s Light’ next Wednesday, librettist and translator Vincent Katz reflects on the process of adapting ancient texts amid numerous influences. *** Elizabeth Bishop got me here, but now that I’m in London, albeit in quarantine for the moment, other voices are speaking to me. I’ve been reading … Continued
This is a guest blog by Leo Doulton, creator of the concept behind Come Bargain With Uncanny Things, a show in Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021. Read on to find out more about how opera, games, and interactive theatre can be mixed! *** I like new opera. I like TTRPGs. I … Continued
Something emerges in the debris… It’s tickets for Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2021 – get yours today! Our artists are emerging undaunted from the wreckage of 2020 to unearth new discoveries, whether drawing lessons from the past or exploring future utopias and dystopias. We anticipate you will be sat socially distanced and mask … Continued
After all our hard work bringing live opera to live audiences in 2020, it was a pleasure to receive special recognition from the jury of the International Opera Awards, alongside many other excellent artists and companies who met the challenges of the pandemic. Our Artistic Director Bill Bankes-Jones features in this short video summing … Continued
We’re really happy to be sharing this trial version of The Theatre Green Book to help our festival artists and everyone else create work in the most environmentally friendly ways possible. You can read a short summary below, and find out more about the project here. If you’d like to read the whole thing, you can find it … Continued
This part of our Learning From 2020 tools for artists and producers. Tête à Tête safely co-hosted 19 different live productions with live audiences between July and September 2020 with The Cockpit, including a DCMS pilot for the return to indoor performance. We’ve created this short film in the hope that others … Continued
This is part of our Learning From 2020 tools for artists and producers. We are so pleased that the Paul Hamlyn Foundation has encouraged us to share our learning from our experience in reopening the opera/theatre sector last year. Tête à Tête safely hosted 19 different live productions with live audiences between July and September 2020, including a DCMS pilot for … Continued
