Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2018

Festival Events

26

July

BISHI: The Good Immigrant

18:30 – 19:25 @ Lewis Cubitt Square. Unticketed & Free. Musician/Artist/Vocalist/Performer Bishi has composed & a Song Cycle of 6 new songs, ‘BISHI: The Good Immigrant’ for Voice Looper, Sitar & Electronics, co-produced with composer & sound...

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27

July

The Errollyn Wallen Songbook

18:30 – 19:30 @ Lewis Cubitt Square. Unticketed & Free. Composer and Tête à Tête favourite Errollyn Wallen performs her first Cubitt Session: The Errollyn Wallen Songbook, a continually evolving set of Ivor Novello award-winning Errollyn...

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01

August

Mary’s Hand

20:30 - 21:40 @ Holy Cross Church, King's Cross. “I am the one you do not like”. Mary’s Hand is a new opera for solo voice about Mary Tudor, first Queen Regnant of England. Surrounded by political and religious intrigue she risked her head,...

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02

August

Juice Vocal Ensemble plus Roshi feat. Pars Radio

18:30-19:15 @ Lewis Cubitt Square. Unticketed & Free. Unusual three-part a cappella meets Roshi’s Welsh-Iranian torch songs and electronica from Pars Radio. Juice Vocal Ensemble mix classical, folk, pop and improvisation, including a unique take...

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02

August

Mary’s Hand

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03

August

WEAR

20:00 - 20:45 @ The Crossing, King's Cross. An immersive sci-fi fashion presentation at the wild, impossible edges of contemporary art music: Waiting for Godot meets Lulu via fashion week for the post-truth era. WEAR is an opera about the end of the...

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07

August

Blue Electric

19:00 - 19:40 @ RADA Studios. Paris, 1980’s. A rebellious adolescent. Holocaust and exile. Cafés and nightclubs, shifty boyfriends and broken friendships, BLUE ELECTRIC charts a young woman’s search for identity in the shadow of her artist...

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07

August

Einstein’s Dreams

20:00 - 20:40 @ RADA Studios. Imagine a world where each love affair has three different endings. Imagine a world where people chase nightingales in the hope of capturing a single moment. Time behaves in unexpected ways in Einstein's Dreams, a new...

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07

August

NIBIRU!

21:00 - 21:50 @ RADA Studios. A techno tone-poem musing on the end of the world, estate agents, social networking, internet conspiracy theories, and large, invasive, tap-dancing happeee-celestial bodies. "It is half space opera, half soap opera. It...

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08

August

The Cloak and Dagger Affair

19:40 - 20:20 @ RADA Studios. Nothing is quite what it seems in the dysfunctional playboy mansion… A unique cocktail of an opera: erotic flavours with a mysterious Spanish twist, shaken and stirred with lust, and more than a dash of fun and...

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08

August

Vicky and Albert

19:00 - 19:20 @ RADA Studios. As friends and life leave Vicky behind she reaches out, but only as far as her smartphone. Vicky and Albert features gifted mezzo Anna Prowse as Vicky, and a sophisticated sound design as Albert, the boyfriend app with...

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08

August

Entanglement! An Entropic Tale

20.40 - 21.35 @ RADA Studios. Entanglement! An Entropic Tale is a cosmic dissemination opera that describes the mysteries of our universe (and of many others) with the distinctive sense of humour that only a nihilist character such as Entropy can...

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09

August

Music from the show Nightshade: Aubergine

18:30 – 19:30. Unticketed & Free. Lewis Cubitt Square. Nightshade: Aubergine was originally conceived as a ‘music theatre road movie’. Together with documentary maker Lisa Tahon, soprano Claron Mcfadden went in search of our common roots along...

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09

August

Dear Marie Stopes

20:00 - 20:45 @ Wellcome Collection. First published in 1918, Marie Stopes’ controversial 'sex manual’, Married Love, revolutionised the way people understood desire, sexuality and sexual health. In response, Stopes received thousands of...

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10

August

TOSCATASTROPHE!

Here we massacre another classic. Following our disastrous Bohème in 2017, in 2018 Timothy Burke created another lousy orchestration to perform with totally inept Bill Bankes-Jones.

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11

August

Dear Marie Stopes

14:00 - 14:45 @ Wellcome Collection. First published in 1918, Marie Stopes’ controversial 'sex manual’, Married Love, revolutionised the way people understood desire, sexuality and sexual health. In response, Stopes received thousands of...

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12

August

Dear Marie Stopes

14:00 - 14:45 @ Wellcome Collection. Marie Stopes, women's rights campaigner and family planning pioneer, first published her controversial sex manual 'Married Love' in 1918, revolutionising the way people understood sex, desire, and sexual health. A...

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13

August

The Lost Box of Stories

13.30 - 14.30 Workshop. 15.00 - 16.00 Performance. St Pancras Room, Kings Place. Age 5+. How did music come into the world? Why do we tell stories, and where do they come from? Join musician John Webb, actor Charlotte Mafham and the players of...

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14

August

The Barrington Hippo

12:00 - 12:30 and 14:00 - 14:30. Age recommendation: 4-11. St Pancras Room, Kings Place. The Barrington Hippo tells the story of a prehistoric baby hippo’s life using beautiful, live animation inspired by cave painting. Originally created by...

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16

August

Li-E Chen: Proposition for a Silent Opera at an...

19:30 - 20.30 @The Place. Artist-in-residence at Tête-à-Tête, Li-E Chen's 'Silent Opera' will present the six perspective on the life and art offered by American-Taiwanese artist Tehching Hsieh's six durational lifeworks through a series of...

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16

August

I Do Need Me

20:15 - 20:55 @ The Place. Children say the strangest things - hilarious, heart-breaking, profound. Their dramas and poetry of the mundane are set to music in this verbatim opera by an anonymous two year old and rising composer Oliver Brignall (Roles...

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16

August

I’m Not A Bit Like A Clown

21:15 - 22:00 @ The Place. Imagine the Secret Life of Four Year Olds set to music. Using entirely verbatim text from an anonymous two year old, award winning Composer Laura Bowler (Music Theatre, BBC Radio Three; FFF, Ensemble Phace Vienna) captures...

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17

August

The Next Level: An Opera and Music Theatre Forum...

Friday 17th August: 14:30 - 17:30 @ City Lit, 1-10 Keeley St | How can companies move to the next level? What are the barriers to developing a company, increasing performances, enhancing the profile, doing something different? What part do image,...

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17

August

Li-E Chen: Proposition for a Silent Opera at an...

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17

August

Nonsensus

19:00 - 19:30 @ The Place. I can tell you my vision about the world…. Nonsensus maps the emotional state of an urban district in Newport, Wales. Distilled from the transcripts of a three-question, door-to-door odyssey undertaken by independent data...

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17

August

#echochamber

19:50 - 21:10 @ The Place. When Justie sends a misguided tweet she employs her colleague Talon to try and fix the mounting backlash on social media. Meanwhile his wife Finna, a famous lifestyle vlogger, begins an online affair with recluse Freyja....

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18

August

Li-E Chen: Proposition for a Silent Opera at an...

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18

August

Amphora

19:00 - 19:35 @ The Place. Amphora explores the beguiling world of artist Jean Arp and the inspiration of his collaborator and muse, the artist dancer Sophie Taeuber. Amphora begins with the death of Sophie, before we flash back to retrace Arp’s...

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18

August

Earth Makes No Sound

19:55 - 20:35 @ The Place. A provocation about our planet and how we look after it. Earth Makes No Sound is a collaborative choral work inspired by the elements and the changes happening to the Earth. Originally developed for Chorus Fest at Southbank...

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18

August

Love Me To Death

20:55 - 21:55 @ The Place. In a work of high drama and passionate lyricism, Tom Randle's exciting new opera ‘Love Me To Death’ explores the intense personal conflict and wide-reaching themes highlighted in the final years of Ruth Ellis, the last...

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28

July

Fleet Footing Sonic Walk

14:00- 18:00. Fleet Footing Sonic Walk, Meeting Point: Vale of Health Pond, Hampstead. Fleet Footing is a downloadable work combining music, maps and interactive performance with a walk charting the course of London’s lost river. Join the artists...

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03

August

Fleet Footing Happening (a flashmob style event)

19:00 - 19.15. St Pancras Old Church, NW1 1UL. This happening is to celebrate the launch of Fleet Footing a downloadable work combining music, maps and interactive performance with a walk charting the course of London’s lost river. This flashmob...

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03

August

Fleet Footing Sonic Walk (short)

17:00- 19:00. Fleet Footing Sonic Walk (Short). Meeting Point: Vale of Health Pond, Hampstead. Fleet Footing is a downloadable work combining music, maps and interactive performance with a walk charting the course of London’s lost river. Join the...

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29

July

Fleet Footing Sonic Walk

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Highlights from 2017 Festival

Watch highlights from our 2017 Festival.