August
Saturday 11th 20.00 – 20.20 & Sunday 12th August 17.00 – 17.20 Zeptepi / Release the Hounds Inspired by the life of astronomer Annie Jump-Cannon, Stephen and Sarah are making a new kind of opera that is exploring...
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th August, 19.05 – 19.25 Filament Theatre One Small Step is returning to the festival this year, having promenaded its way round the foyer last year. The Magic Mirror is taken from our next show,...
Thursday 16th & Friday 17th August 19.10 – 20.10 Boii Theatre Dedicated to Burma Campaign UK An experimental political opera inspired by the story of Burma and its people. Powerful Spider is weaving a web of fear...
Saturday 4th August, 21.15 – 21.55 Ergo Phizmiz A whirlwind tour through the life and work of maverick writer, collagist, radio-producer and opera composer Ergo Phizmiz. Performing excerpts from music-theatre pieces dating back to...
Thursday 16th & Friday 17th August, 20.35 – 21.05 McCaldin Arts Genesis A Voice of One Delight began life as a commissioned concert piece for mezzo, flute, harp and viola, premiered at the 2010 Presteigne...
Saturday 18th 19.00 – 19.40 & Sunday 19st August 16.00 – 16.40 Renard Music Theatre Synopsis: In the quiet and peace of a lakeside town in Switzerland, the famed psychiatrist Mathilde von Zahnd runs the Les...
Sunday 5th August, 18.15 – 18.45 CHROMA Claudia Molitor and CHROMA make an opera in one day with Lor Lixenberg and Darren Abrahams. Have you ever doodled an idea on a piece of paper and wished it would instantly come to...
Saturday 11th 19.55 – 20.25 & Sunday 12th August 16.55 – 17.25 A Wild Evening with the Papin Sisters An Eye for an Eye – a wild evening with the Papin Sisters, takes the true story of the two maids who...
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th August, 21.00 – 22.00 Size Zero Opera Company Sketches for The Sandman were originally workshopped with ROH2 in 2010, with a section of the opera being exposed at the Royal Opera House Exposure...
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th August, 19.45 – 20.40 From a concept by Simone Spagnolo A Narrator, lots of balls, a knife and a gun, common people and infiltrators: It Makes No Difference is designed upon concepts of...
December
Riverside Studios 20 December 2012 – 2 March 2013 Tête à Tête Tête à Tête’s much loved production of the classic musical comedy returned to the Riverside Studios. In 2013 we made a recording of Salad Days which...
Thursday 16th & Friday 17th August, 21.40 – 22.15 Opera Room Productions City FC is a troubled team with a single shot at glory in the Champions League final. Will they lift the trophy? Will true love be realised? Will it all be...
Thursday 16th & Friday 17th August 19.00 – 20.15 The Shadow Opera Group In claustrophobic proximity two couples find themselves in a conflict of madness, depression, waking dreams and desire. Alamar is a painter plagued by...
Saturday 4th 20.10 – 20.55 & Sunday 5th August, 17.10 – 17.55 Flam Productions What if Miss Havisham could sing? How would one of the heroines of Dickens’ novel Great Expectations describe her fate? ...
Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th August 10.00-10.40, 12.00-12.40 & 14.00-14.40 Scottish Opera A brand-new interactive performance for toddlers and their carers. Come with us to a magical, night-time world, take a train...
Saturday 18th 21.00 – 21.45 & Sunday 19th August, 18.00 – 18.45 Tête à Tête This whimsical adaptation of Kafka’s Amerika follows naêve young German Karl Rossman, exiled to New York after he accidentally...
Friday 3rd & Saturday 4th August, 10.00 – 17.00 The Singing Entrepreneur Forum: “Redefining Success” Producers: Darren Abrahams (Tenor) and Arlene Rolph (Mezzo Soprano) The Singing Entrepreneur Forum is a two day...
Thursday 2 August 19.00 – 19.50 Friday 3 August 15.00 – 15. 50; 19.00 – 19.50 Lucid Arts Rudyard Kipling wrote the Just So Stories to entertain his Best Beloved infant son and daughter. He created in prose a primitive world...
Saturday 11th 20.45 – 21.35 & Sunday 12th August 17.45 – 18.35 Cosmica Productions And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going’ –from ‘Dreamgirls: Original Cast Album’ © Universal Music Publishing. Extracts...
Saturday 18th 20.05 – 20.35 & Sunday 19th August 17.05 – 17.35 Ensemble BPM In the sixties, an American diary author acquired notoriety for her sexually frank depictions of encounters with her lovers; among them the...
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th August 19.50 – 20.35 World’s End Opera When Jean Rhys lost a husband she didn’t always notice straight away. Married three times, she was all but consumed by drink and self-destruction as her...
Lite Bites were free unticketed events. Lite Bites are unticketed just turn up and enjoy! The creation of new work is always volatile, and we are sorry to say that due to unforeseen circumstances the show programmed for this Festival...
Saturday 4th 19.00 – 19.45 & Sunday 5th August, 16.00 – 16.45 And Then We Danced And Then We Danced is a new collective of musicians, artists and performers directed by Victoria Bourne and Chris Harper set up to explore...
Saturday 18th 20.00 – 20.40 & Sunday 19th August, 17.00 – 17.40 Opera at Home This one-act opera uses a multimedia approach to take an uncompromising look at our treatment of older people, particularly those whose mental...
Thursday 2nd & Friday 3rd August 20.10-20.40 Tête à Tête New work is always volatile, and we’re sorry to say that due to unforeseen circumstances, the Warehouse Ensemble is no longer able to perform Six-Word Operas in Tête à...
Thursday 2nd & Friday 3rd August, 21.00 – 22.00 Gestalt Opera A radical re-envisioning of the Rumpelstiltskin tale, fusing courtly love, psychotherapy and sadomasochism. When a stoic marriage counselor is tasked with...
Tête à Tête These free events ran throughout the 2012 Tête à Tête Opera Festival. Nine Stories High – WNO Installation – Throughout the Festival Credits: Episodes 1 – 3 Writer Alan Harris...
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th August, 19.00 – 19.30 Joby Burgess Thrashing the Sea God is heavily influenced by John McLeod’s extensive travels throughout China, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Bali) and interest in...
Thursday 2 & Friday 3 August 19.10-19.40 Tête à Tête Making Arrangements by Elizabeth Bowen. An abandoned husband takes revenge by destroying his wife’s treasured dresses, and with them their memories, love, and perhaps...
Thursday 16th & Friday 17th August 20.30 – 21.30 The Crowe Ensemble Synopsis: The Francis Bacon Opera is an absurd comedy that explores the mind of one of the 20th century’s most controversial painters....
Saturday 11th 19.05 – 19.35 & Sunday 12th August 16.05 – 16.35 Efthymiou Music Incest and murder threaten Nero’s rule over Rome. But can his portrayal of his beloved heroes, Oedipus, Apollo and...
Saturday 4th 21.10 – 21.50 & Sunday 5th August 18.10 – 18.50 future opera company ‘In an extraordinary tale merging reality with new myth, a chance meeting between three strangers sparks a touching exploration of...
Saturday 18th 19.05 – 19.40 & Sunday 19th August, 16.05 – 16.40 The Constella Orchestra After a sell-out performance at the Royal Northern College of Music, the Constella Orchestra is delighted to bring the Mermaid of...
Saturday 11th 19.00 – 19.35 & Sunday 12th August, 16.00 – 16.35 ARPA Productions ARPA Productions is a not-for-profit production company specialising in contemporary classical music. We produce professional performances...
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th August, 21.05 – 21.25 Fourfortytwo and The Blackburn Company Both Philip and Nick were interested in exploring new approaches to writing opera, choosing to focus on explicit themes, and...
Saturday 4th 20.05 – 20.50 & 5th August, 17.05 – 17.50 Elvis Herod & the Gang of Rogues One day in the mid 1940s in Fruita, Colorado, a poultry farmer was flummoxed by the continued survival of a decapitated chicken....
Saturday 4th 19.05 – 19.45 & Sunday 5th August, 16.05 – 16.45 Jacques Cohen Introduction Scene/Variation 1 Miss Havisham bemoans her fate and resolves to take revenge Scene/Variation 2 Young Pip comes to play with Estella and...
Thursday 2nd & Friday 3rd August, 20.10-20.40 ignite @ sounds of the engine house Mortal and mythological worlds collide; Hera’s List explores a dejected man’s struggle for independence, despite chaotic...
17 August 2012 14.00 – 17.00pm Opera & Music Theatre Forum Fundraising Symposium The key to raising money – Fundraising for companies of all sizes The Opera Music Theatre Forum is a network of companies working to...
