Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2010

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August

…And then what happened?

Sunday 15th August, 18.45 After the recent success of Feathered Friend for Tête à Tête and Dalston Songs for the Royal Opera House, Helen gives a solo performance of songs and song-stories, including new works.

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August

Lite Bites (2010)

Tête à Tête rehearsed, developed and performed 4 brand new super-short, operas all over the Riverside Studios, in foyers, theatres, and public places across the borough including: Ravenscourt Park, Bishop’s Park, Lyric Square and Fulham...

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August

The Errollyn Wallen Songbook

Saturday 14th August, 21.15 The Errollyn Wallen Songbook Genesis The Errollyn Wallen Songbook returns to Tête á Tête: The Opera Festival with brand new additions and graced with the sound of strings. Songwriting and performance runs...

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August

A Pebble in the Pond/Icarus

Sunday 22nd August, 19.30 Tête à Tête A Pebble in the Pond Music: Michael Zev Gordon Words: Eva Hoffman A kaleidoscopic meditation on the processes and emotions of memory, an English Jew looks back to his time in Poland...

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August

Lite Bites 2010 Documentary

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05

August

The Lost Chord

Thursday 5th & Friday 6th August, 19.00 & 21.00 Opera North Genesis This production is the latest incarnation of The Lost Chord by Tim Hopkins for Opera North: a series of pieces taking different paths through music by...

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August

Avant Cabaret

Thursday 19th August & Friday 20th August, 21.30 Size Zero was founded in 2008 by Laura Bowler with musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music. The story behind the group’s name is taken from the first performance they gave which...

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July

Lullaballoo

Saturday 7th August, 19.00 & Sunday 8th August, 16.00 Do you remember the song your mother sang in order to comfort you, and make you fall asleep? Did you resist? And what about now? Lullabies can often be our first encounter...

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05

August

The Mourning Show

Thursday 5th & Friday 6th August, 21.00 Download The Mourning Show Programme On his regular early morning show, popular DJ Chris Evans is telephoned by three ladies. They proceed to destroy his mind. Convinced he is a bird,...

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14

August

BabyO

Saturday 14th August & Sunday 15th August, 10.30/11.30/13.30 Genesis BabyO is a completed work with costumes. BabyO toured earlier in the year as a finished piece but the Research & Development phase of the project happened in...

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July

Magic Potions

Saturday 14th August, 17.00 Genesis Jacques Cohen wrote most of this opera over ten years ago. In the meantime several other major commissions intervened until a few weeks ago when, after seeing the score, Bill Bankes-Jones invited Jacques to...

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August

The Screams of Kitty Genovese

Saturday 21st August, 20.30 Single Malt Productions Genesis Inspired by the true story that shocked the nation, British composer Will Todd and American writer David Simpatico slice through the silence of a city stricken with fear in the...

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July

Baroccata

Saturday 14th August, 19.45 & Sunday 15th August, 17.15 Vocal Motions Elastic Theatre Synopsis & Genesis Fusing dance-theatre and opera, Baroccata is an imaginary journey across Baroque ideas about the body, venturing into the...

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07

August

One Dark Night

Saturday 7th August, 21.30 & Sunday 8th August, 18.30 One Dark Night is Osnat and Sabina’s first piece as Filament Theatre but their third piece as collaborators. The idea came after just such a night, and it has been developed...

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August

The Three Wishes

Saturday 14th August, & Sunday 15th August 2010 Second Movement Synopsis: All the action takes place within a film studio, where the story of ‘The Three Wishes’ is being filmed. Indolenda and Juste, a bored,...

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August

Chance

Saturday 7th August, 2010 – Tom Weil Chance Genesis Chance was devised as an experiment into the role of the observer within contemporary classical music. The work was first devised by Tom Weil in 2007 who worked with Omar...

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12

November

Salad Days (2010)

Our 2010 production ran for 70 performances 9 December 2010-6 February 2011 at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London Salad Days (parts 1 & 2) archive video from 2010/11 Bill Bankes-Jones, Artistic Director...

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August

Three Tales

Thursday 19th August & Friday 20th August, 19.45 Ensemble BPM Three Tales, by Beryl Korot and Steve Reich, is a documentary video opera that recalls three events from the twentieth century: the crash of the Hindenburg Zeppelin, the nuclear...

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12

August

Golden Years

Thursday 12th August & Friday 13th August, 20.30 Genesis Golden Years was commissioned by the Tête à Tête Opera Festival 2009 as a Lite Bite, intended to be taken on the streets of Hammersmith to lure the public to the...

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August

Sawn-Off Opera

Saturday 21st August, 19.00 & Sunday 22nd August, 16.00 Genesis Based in Manchester, Sawn-off Opera comprises artists who studied at the Royal Northern College of Music. BBC Radio 3 The Verb commissioned our first opera, We Know We...

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21

August

When a Man Knows

Saturday 21st August, 15.00 FifteenB Productions Based on the play by Alan Richardson, Robert Hugill’s gripping new opera uses just 4 singers and 4 instrumentalists to create a taut music drama. A man is tied up on a deserted...

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August

Gutter Press

Saturday 21st August, 17.00 & Sunday 22nd August 14.00 Synopsis Following a sell-out exploration at the 2009 Festival, Gutter Press returns to the front lines of the oversexed, overexposed and underfed frenzy of starlets and...

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July

Search for Sounds

Saturday 14th August, 12.30-13.10pm Welsh National Opera Introduced by: WNO MAX Director, Rhian Hutchings Genesis This 20 minute film, part animated, part filmed, concludes a three-year programme of work delivered by Welsh National...

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August

Woven Gold

Saturday 21st August, 14.00 Woven Gold Annie Blaber /Jessica Maryon-Davies/ The music group at the Helen Bamber Foundation Woven Gold is a group of musicians seeking refuge from human rights violations in their own countries – Burma,...

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August

Impropera

Thursday 12th August & Friday 13th August, 20.30 Virtuoso musicianship, agile wit and ingenious storytelling, Impropera is opera improvised on the spot from the audience’s suggestions. Aardvarks and arias. Tragedy and profanity....

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August

She walketh veiled and sleeping…

Thursday 19th August & Friday 20th August, 19.00 Genesis This piece began to form after my being introduced to Charlotte Perkins Gilman by my headmaster, Dr. Joseph Spence. I instantly felt drawn to The Yellow Wallpaper, as so many...

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August

Intolerance

Thursday 12th August & Friday 13th August, 19.00 Genesis What you are seeing is the first, of eventually three pieces from a planned operatic triptych, The Headless Soldier. All three hail from the original collection of...

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July

Six Word Operas (2010)

Thursday 12th August & Friday 13th August, 2010 19.00 Genesis The Warehouse Ensemble is a vibrant group of young players dedicated to exploring the furthest reaches of C20th and contemporary music. They have...

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July

Krazy Kat

Thursday 5 August & Friday 6 August, 19.30 It’s a love triangle between a saintly and philosophical cat, a cynical egotist of a mouse and Ignatz, who obsessively seeks to “bean that Kat’s noodle” with a...

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August

Sonya’s Story

Saturday 7th August, 20.15 & Sunday 8th August, 17.15 Genesis Sonya’s Story began life as Sonya’s Song, written for Sally by Neal 13 years ago. At a performance of Uncle Vanya in the West End, Neal was so inspired by the closing...

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