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
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 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
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
