July
31 July 2009 Against Oblivion Part 2 is the second part of an ongoing series of music theatre works by composer Jeremy Peyton Jones exploring the importance of memory in the face of the extremes of human experience. Part 1, premiered in 2007,...
August
Thurs 6 & Fri 7 Aug 2009 Evangelia and Bill Herbert have a long-term collaboration and were the creators of Bumblepuppy (commissioned by last year’s Tête-à-Tête Festival), the world’s first opera in a Zorb ball! Darren and...
Thurs 13 & Fri 14 Aug 2009 Sometime in 2008 composer Stephen Crowe discovered that Gustav Mahler never completed his one and only opera; a setting of a tale by the Brothers Grimm. He boldly decided to step into the master’s moccasins....
Thurs 13 & Fri 14 Aug, 2009 How does music find clarity in the muddiness of memory? Following its sell-out premiere at Kings Place this production builds an installation-set during the performance, invites the audience to walk...
Thurs 6 & Fri 7 Aug 2009 MEDOUSA’ s original score is the product of a collaborative process. Applying the creative methodologies of devised performance, the work has developed from Maya Sapone’s vocal improvisations on Jacek...
Sat 1 8.30pm & Sun 2 Aug 2009 The Song of Margery Kempe received its concert première at last year’s Tête-à-Tête festival, also with Loré Lixenberg in the title role. This year sees its realisation in Paul Burgess’s...
Sat 8 Aug 2009 Cabaret Fou was formed by composer Robert Fokkens and soprano Sarah Dacey under the name “Pulse” in 2006 to explore contemporary song with roots in the European cabaret tradition of the likes of Satie, Weill and Eisler....
Sat 8 Aug 7pm & Sun 9 Aug 2009 Golden Hat Opera is the brainchild of Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and Natalie Raybould. Natalie and Cheryl were keen to develop a large scale project, since earlier collaborations had been very well received. Their...
Thurs 6 & Fri 7 Aug 2009 The Star Beast is Must See’s virgin voyage producing a new work, and the performance for Tête-à-Tête comes at an early stage of production of the work as a whole. The story is one we felt should be shared with...
Sun 2 Aug 2009 Genesis Far Away and Long Ago is part of Tete-à-Tete’s programme of ‘seed bed works’ – pieces that we wish to workshop with the authors, company and our audience before developing into full-blown productions to produce...
Sun 9 Aug 2009 Two extraordinary song writers are featured here. David Bruce’s beautiful songs of childhood, recently premiered at Carnegie Hall (Piosenski) as well as brilliant virtuosic composer Errollyn Wallen’s 2009...
Originally a work-in–progress developed as part of Opera North Projects’ Resonance strand of new music-theatre, The Weather Man has been brought to fruition in a co-commission by Opera North and Shrewsbury’s Shift Time Festival. Much of...
Sat 8th Aug & Sun 9th Aug 2009 Flam is devised by Orlando Gough, Emma Bernard, Melanie Pappenheim and Rebecca Askew (aka ‘Flam Productions’). It is a work in development, exploring the vocal, physical and comic possibilities of this...
Thurs 13 & Fri 14 Aug 2009 Ride is an excerpt from Drive Ride Walk, originally commissioned by the Bridewell Theatre Company. After performing a festival Emi Wokoma version of the show at Tete à Tete’s festival in August 2007, we toured...
Thurs 13 & Fri 14 Aug 2009 The idea for Ula was born last July when Mark Glentworth persuaded Carolyn Herail to write and original story for their second opera. Both passionate about creating new works, they became drawn to telling...
Thurs 30 & Fri 31 July 2009 Genesis – For some time, actor Tom Frankland and pianist Jakob Fichert have been planning a collaboration. Having considered many possibilities, they decided to develop a piece based on Wilde’s...
Thurs 13 & Fri 14 Aug 2009 SHADOWPLAYS explores the interdependence of shadow and substance It is inspired by the Dada artist Kurt Schwitter’s text and playfully explores the real and the imagined, unites opposites, chaos and order, it...
Thurs 13 & Fri 14 Aug 2009 Byron and I have long wanted to make a show together and this year turned out to be the right time to create WALLEN. We are both extremely grateful to Bill Bankes-Jones and all at Tête à Tête for allowing us...
Thurs 6 & Fri 7 Aug 2009 Genesis: Exactly one year ago, Fergal and James visited the Tête à Tête Festival for the first time to see Sharp Fire’s magnificent production of Johnny’s Midnight Goggles. They were so inspired by the sheer...
Sat 15 Aug 2009 The writing and life experience of two different generations of Welsh valley residents have been bought together by asking “what is it like to get old?” and “What will it be like when I am old?”...
Sat 15 Aug & Sun 16 Aug 2009 Glyndebourne Youth Opera began devising Who Am I? in September 2008 and presented a preview performance in March 2009. The piece has undergone a re-write, responding in part to audience feedback, and intensive...
Sun 2 Aug 2009 Jacko’s Hour is a new full-length chamber opera, inspired by the classic Western High Noon. The production opens at Pavilion Theatre (Brighton Dome) 11,12 September, then moves to London’s Bridewell Theatre: 15-19 September....
Thurs 6 & Fri 7 Aug 2009 This cycle of songs and interludes is based on some very early preparatory sketches for a new multimedia opera exploring the frailty of human memory and relationships, and the impossibility of truly understanding...
The passion of opera meets the adrenalin of improvisation. Impropera is opera improvised on the spot from the audience’s suggestions. Without the use of a score, a script or a safety net. Synopsis How does one describe the pure enjoyment...
Sat 8 Aug 8.30pm & Sun 9 Aug 2009 For many years Neyire has been developing ideas for creating theatre with music, musician and clarinet as an integral part of the action and storytelling. I felt that there were areas which needed...
Thurs 6 & Fri 7 Aug 2009 It has long been suggested that Ian’s writing would truly complements the way Ben writes for voice, and having worked together over 15years ago, they sat down & conjured a story of their lives, a story...
Sunday 16 Aug 2009 Surf Tailz was the first of Welsh National Opera‟s Street Songs projects, a wider three-year programme of work in the South Wales Valleys supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Surf Tailz explored the connection between...
This is a a final showing of our 2009 flashmob-style mini operas which we rehearsed and developed all over the Riverside Studios and the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham throughout the Festival. We also performed as many of our 2008 Lite Bites as we...
Sat 1 Aug 2009 Genesis blah blah Synopsis Hotfoot from his worldwide mission (Sydney Opera House/Carnegie Hall) to spread operatic joy and pain, Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer The Opera/ BBC Kombat Operas ) is released for one night...
