This part of our Learning From 2020 tools for artists and producers. We’re pleased to share our core evaluation document. This shows the full story behind our work 2019-2020, covering all artistic and organisational activity. It is a self-evaluation report that feeds into all our planning, from the shows we programme to our … Continued
Leo Doulton, Marketing Director This part of our Learning From 2020 tools for artists and producers. As we start another year of lockdowns (though with a vaccine in sight), my colleagues and I at Tête à Tête are going to be sharing what we learnt over the past year in a series of … Continued
By Claire Shovelton, photographer for Tête à Tête: the Opera Festival This part of our Learning From 2020 tools for artists and producers. Photographing Tête à Tête: the Opera Festival 2020 Throughout 2020, in a shared act of imagination, perseverance, creativity and hope, the team at Tête à Tête and its community … Continued
This part of our Learning From 2020 tools for artists and producers. We’ve had an extraordinary year at Tête à Tête, and have the numbers to prove it. Take a look at what we’ve achieved since May. You can download a PDF version of this image here.
As part of our #ForArtists offering, we’re inviting past Festival artists to share their experiences, and tell you how their opera became a reality. In today’s blog, Martin Bussey reflects on how creating work at the Festival gave him new creative possibilities. It’s easy to see Tête à Tête as a festival where you … Continued
As part of our #ForArtists offering, we’re inviting past Festival artists to share their experiences, and tell you how their opera became a reality. In today’s blog, Dr Susannah Self reflects on her research into making opera more socially inclusive. Recently I was in a zoom meeting with Bill Banks-Jones and the Tête à … Continued
As part of our #ForArtists offering, we’re inviting past Festival artists to share their experiences, and tell you how their opera became a reality. In today’s blog, Clare McCaldin reflects on how performing at the Festival enhanced her agency as an artist. From Plain Jane to Queen Mary I had been attending performances … Continued
As part of our #ForArtists offering, we’re inviting past Festival artists to share their experiences, and tell you how their opera became a reality. In today’s blog, Laure Meloy reflects on One Art’s transatlantic journey, and how it changed her life. In the 1990s, I was fresh out of music school, temping in New … Continued
We’re not the only ones who’ve been thinking about how to change the sector after 2020. Here are some other ideas we’ve been inspired by. We’ll keep updating this list as we find more things; there’s still much more learning to do, and not everything is collected here. Things we’ve signed https://www.weshallnotberemoved.com/2020/09/15/seven-principles-to-an-inclusive-recovery-for-the-arts-creative-sector/ … Continued
We’re very pleased to be releasing the Tête à Tête Inclusion Report 2020. The following is a note from its lead author, Leo Doulton. Introducing the Report Tête à Tête has always been ahead of the wider operatic sector when it comes to equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), and has an admirable track … Continued
