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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2011


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August

A Fetus in America

Saturday 6th 19.00 & Sunday 7th August, 16.00     In the afterlife aborted fetuses gather for a laugh and a shot of embryotic fluid at the ‘Petri Dish’, legendary cabaret bar for the unborn. Gender bending abortee, Ziggy, is...

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06

August

When Yesterday We Met

Saturday 6th 16.00 & Sunday 7th August, 14.00   …A Family Song Recital   Please tell Sarah and Phil how to act out the following dramatic scene:   Sarah- Huntsman, why do you hunt the little rabbit?   Phil- I have to...

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01

August

Lite Bites (2011)

Tête à Tête   An ever popular presence at the festival, Tête à Tête will again develop, rehearse and perform 4 brand new, super-short operas which will be presented all over Riverside Studios, in foyers, theatres and other public places...

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13

August

Tales of our Fathers

Saturday 13th, 18.00 & Sunday 14th August, 14.55 Park Music Co   Genesis Tales of our fathers has come about as a reaction to, the previous Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2009 premiere Law Of Motion; in that research/performance work Ian...

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07

August

Brunch

Sunday 7th August , 19.30   An opera in one scene   Genesis   This year, Max returns to the Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival, in collaboration with James Young and Arcomis Live!, with Brunch – a tentatively labelled...

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04

August

Wrong Songs For Summer

Thursday 4th and Friday 5th August, 21.30 Richard Thomas   Synopsis Richard Thomas (Writer/Composer of Jerry Springer The Opera) fresh from his Royal Opera House smash, Anna Nicole and West End dance spectacular, Shoes presents WRONG SONGS FOR...

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04

August

Love Songs

Thursday 4th & Friday 5th August, 19.00 Tête à Tête     As a couple struggle to save their marriage, they turn in desperation to the experts to help them make sense of the challenges of loving. A work in progress for Tête à...

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20

August

Telling the Stories of Our Time

Saturday 20th August, 21.00 – 22.00   Composer Errollyn Wallen talks about the making of her eleven operas, revealing the fascinating processes of her art. She will also be including examples from her next opera, YES, with librettist...

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06

August

clearing

Saturday 6th 17.30 & Sunday 7th August, 14.30   Genesis clearing (2010) was created at the request of composer Gavin Wayte to accompany his sung drama Metamorphosis for baritone and piano.   Synopsis Acting as a scenic backdrop to the...

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11

August

Yellow

Thursday 18th, 21.45 & Friday 19th August, 21.55   SoS Music Theatre   Yellow grew out of a piece that was performed as part of Tte ˆ Tte: The Opera Festival 2010, and has been a continuously developing project. The initial work,...

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06

August

Metamorphosis

Saturday 6th 18.15 & Sunday 7th August, 15.15   4-Legged Productions     Genesis Metamorphosis – monodrama in five scenes, based on an idea by Franz Kafka.   In Metamorphosis, I take the single idea of a man who turns into a...

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13

August

The City Weeps

Thursday 18th & Friday 19th August, 19.00   Frances M Lynch and electric voice theatre       Frances M Lynch and electric voice theatre (evt) have been collaborating with composers Alejandro Viñao and Andrew Lovett for many...

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04

August

Closing Schools for the Future

Thursday 4 & Friday 5 August, 20.30       Closing Schools for the Future is an operatic performance which is unique because it draws its subject material from research into the day to day lives of ordinary people who are facing a...

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06

August

Midnight Closes

Saturday 6th, 19.35 and Sunday 7th August, 16.35   Fusebox Productions   Synopsis A new staging of a song cycle based on a series of Thomas Hardy poems by rising star composer, Charlotte Bray (2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition...

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18

August

The Moonflower

Thursday 18th & Friday 19th August, 19.00 Boii Theatre     Searching for a kind of music that could tell of a country, unknown to many, Mario Ferraro found the sounds from his childhood in the interior of Brazil. Libretto inspired by...

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01

August

Cookie Cartel

SYNOPSIS   Dave, Frank and Lucy combine guitar, percussion and double bass in an exploration of soundscapes free, fragile, stark and beautiful. Their music draws from the streets but soars to the stars.  

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14

August

One Big Sing

Sunday 14th August 11.30   Tête à Tête, Filament Theatre and all festival companies   Come and Join Filament for a singing workshop, that will lead to a mass choir flash mob inside Riverside Studios and perhaps elsewhere! Using...

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18

August

The North Wind Was A Woman & Dhyana

Thursday 18th August, 20.40 CHROMA The North Wind Was A Woman & Dhyana   CHROMA conducted by Christopher Austin soprano Sabhdh Dennedy flutes – Sarah O’Flynn clarinets – Stuart King, Massimo di Trolio harp – Helen...

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05

August

Fables – A Film Opera

Thursday 4 & Friday 5 August 19.45   Streetwise Opera     Narration for live performance: Emma Bernard. Step into a magical world of folklore with Fables – A Film Opera, “Stories of survival, rebellion, greed and love...

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14

August

One Small Step

Sunday 14th August, 15.00 & Sunday 21st August, 18.45   Filament Theatre   Genesis One Small Step was conceived as a companion piece to One Dark Night which was presented at last year’s Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival. As the...

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13

August

The Sleeper

Saturday 13th 20.30 & Sunday 14th August 17.30   Welsh National Youth Opera   Made up of enthusiastic, talented young singers and instrumentalists aged between 16 and 25 years old, trainee repetiteurs and backstage work experience...

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11

August

Icarus

Thursday 11th & Friday 12th August, 19.00   Tête à Tête   In this, the first act, we see the master craftsman Daedalus teaching his son Icarus the art of the smith. But Icarus struggles to match the high expectations of his father....

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11

August

Orpheus & Euridice

Thursday 11th & Friday 12th August, 21.00 Citric Acid   Synopsis Euridice sings of the great musician Orpheus. She says that she met him once in a dream and in that dream he was able to silence the whole of nature with his playing. When...

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20

August

The Third Policeman

Saturday 20th, 19.45 & Sunday 21st August, 16.45   Ergo Phizmiz & the Gang of Rogues     Synopsis From “maverick composer” Ergo Phizmiz comes an opera on Flann O’Brien’s perplexing masterpiece. Part thriller,...

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06

August

In Her Little Room

Saturday 6th 21.15 & Sunday 7th August, 18.15   Paul Evernden   Genesis   The idea for In her little room came from a desire which has been with me since 2008 to write a dramatic work based on an element from ancient Greek myth....

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06

August

Remembering… …Forgetting

Saturday 6th 22.00 & Sunday 7th August, 19.00   Nigel Osborne and Michael Popper   The poet Sergei Esenin was born in 1895 into a peasant family, and much of his work is born of a passionate love for his homeland and its people. He...

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06

August

The Withered Arm

Saturday 6th 19.55 & Sunday 7th August, 16.55   Disquiet   After receiving Arts Council England funding for our Research & Development period in September 2010, with additional support from The Hardy Society and Opera North, we are...

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11

August

Innocence in the Asylum

Thursday 11th & Friday 12th August, 21.00   Size Zero Opera   Innocence in the Asylum brings you a double bill of chamber opera with premieres of works by two exciting female composers, Diana Soh’s (Singapore) The Boy Who Lived...

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13

August

SensoryO

Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th August, 12.00 & 14.30   Scottish Opera     Genesis The interactive workshops have been designed by our team of singers, composer, choreographer and designer lasting about 30 minutes followed by 15-20...

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20

August

Voicing

Saturday 20th August 18.00   Operatic Shorts and Freathy Tippet     Synopsis The text is taken from London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew, and from interviews conducted by Christine Bacon of the human rights theatre company...

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04

August

Larvae

Thursday 4th & Friday 5th, August 18.40   Thursday 18th & Friday 19th 20.25     For Solo Baritone Voice and Six Radios   The oversize score for Larvae features 33 white hexagonal flexagons which initially hide the musical...

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11

August

Six-Word Operas (2011)

Thursday 11th & Friday 12th August, 19.45 Warehouse Ensemble     Synopsis   Six word stories became an internet fad a few years ago, spearheaded by Wired magazine’s challenge to a number of eminent writers to emulate Ernest...

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09

August

Wanderlust

Friday 19th August, 20.40 Ezra Axelrod   Wanderlust takes the audience on a musical journey that transcends geography and genre, exploring the diverse song-writing traditions that inspired singer-composer-pianist Ezra Axelrod’s musical...

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21

August

Life Cycle

Sunday 21st August, 18.00 Opera North   Life Cycle is a set of songs about love, loss and sleep deprivation. Novelist Toby Litt’s wry, unflinching words combine with Emily Hall’s extraordinarily beautiful music across 20 songs that...

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01

August

Staticopera

Exhibition – 1-21 August   “Maverick composer”, collagist, and writer, Ergo Phizmiz, presents the world’s first mute, stationery opera, strewn in silence and stillness across the gallery walls like music squashed into...

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06

August

Remembering…Forgetting

Saturday 6th 22.00 & Sunday 7th August, 19.00 Nigel Osborne and Michael Popper     The poet Sergei Esenin was born in 1895 into a peasant family, and much of his work is born of a passionate love for his homeland and its people. He...

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11

August

Songs for Jean McConville

Thursday 11th & Friday 12th August, 19.45   Tête à Tête & Songs for Jean McConville: a Requiem     New World   It will tell us everything we need to know. Please do the right thing. Decide.   Songs for Jean...

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