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