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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2013


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August

Daughters of the Elements

Saturday 20th, 19.00 & Sunday 21st August 16.00 Tête à Tête   The work is essentially a kind of song cycle divided into six scenes based on a fictional time in the life of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her daughters Irene and Eve.   In...

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01

August

Lite Bites 2013

An ever popular presence at the festival, Tte ˆ Tte developed, rehearsed and performed 4 brand new, super-short operas all over Riverside Studios, in foyers, theatres and other public places across the borough of Hammersmith & Fulham...

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10

August

MICROmegas

Saturday 10th August & Sunday 11th August, 2013   Shadow Opera Group     Genesis   This project is the third opera the Shadow Opera Group have produced, and is a work-­‐in-­‐progress. Tonight’s performance forms the...

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01

August

Soon

Thursday 1st August & Friday 2nd August Arco Productions     Genesis   SOON started out as a narrative poem about a voyage. Writer Alba Arikha was stranded on the Eurostar, between London and Paris. It sparked her imagination, and...

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01

July

The Answer to Everything

Sunday 4th August, 2013 Streetwise Opera     The Answer to Everything is a film opera starring a cast of 120 homeless people from Streetwise’s 11 groups around Great Britain. With music provided by a host of composers both from...

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08

August

The Garden

Thursday 8th August & Friday 9th August, 2013 20:15-20:55   Genesis   THE GARDEN was commissioned by sound (North East Scotland’s Festival of New Music), and premiered in a flat in Aberdeen as part of sound’s Out of the Box (a...

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08

August

Viagron

Thursday 8th August & Friday 9th August, 2013 19:00-20:00   Size Zero Opera     Genesis: Size Zero Opera specialise in the commissioning and production of chamber opera written by emerging composers, with emerging opera creatives,...

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13

August

When I am Old / On Off

Saturday 13th 19.00 & Sunday 14th August 16.00   Glyndebourne Youth Opera   Double-Bill: On Off and When I Am Old   Glyndebourne Youth Opera presents a double-bill of newly commissioned work, On Off, by Orlando Gough, a vocal...

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01

August

and the Crowd (wept)

Thursday 1st August & Friday 2nd August, 2013 Paper Tiger     Genesis   In 2009, when Jade Goody was dying of cancer, Afsaneh became fascinated by an image in a magazine: Jade getting married, jaundiced yellow, bald, hiking up her...

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08

August

Fossils and Monsters

Thursday 8th August & Friday 9th August, 2013 18:55-19:55   Alison Wells, Ian Mitchell, Catriona Scott     Fossils and Monsters presents the tales of Mary Anning and Mary Shelley – both living in the 19th century but from...

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08

August

Kettlehead

Thursday 8th August & Friday 9th August, 2013 21:00-22:00 Size Zero Opera     Genesis: Size Zero Opera specialise in the commissioning and production of chamber opera written by emerging composers, with emerging opera creatives, and...

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13

August

One or the Other

Saturday 10th August & Sunday 11th August, 2013   Filament Theatre Company     Inspired by ‘Tom and Jerry’, 3-part harmony and bad cookery programmes, Filament bring this cheeky little piece, their newest offering, to...

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01

August

Gala

Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd August, 2013   Puppet Centre & Tête à Tête co-­‐production, in collaboration with Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance   Ergo Phizmiz would like to dedicate the words andmusic of GALA to...

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10

August

The Secretary Turned CEO

Saturday 10th August & Sunday 11th August, 2013 Lucid Arts and Music   The Secretary Turned CEO is a radical refurbishment of La serva padrona, Pergolesi’s seminal comic intermezzo of 1733. With a contemporary, guitar-based soundscape...

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15

August

The Ant and the Grasshopper

Thursday 15th August & Friday 16th August, 2013   Opera Ensemble of the Opera Strekoza i Murave   Strekoza i Muravej (Grasshopper and Ant) is a re-imagining of the classic Russian fable following the lives of the extravagant Strekoza...

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15

August

Lament

Thursday 15th August & Friday 16th August, 2013 The Theatre of Sound     Trapped, abandoned and completely helpless. How often have we felt the light of hope fade into darkness and how frequently have we surrendered to melancholy and...

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01

August

La Belle de La Bête

Thursday 1st August & Friday 2nd August, 2013 Pete Wyer and Clarke Melville     This sixties-Barbados, upbeat, lyrical opera is the love story of Sonia, a mercurial Barbadian, and Edward, an English aristocrat, trapped in their...

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10

August

Gravity

Saturday 10th August & Sunday 11th August, 2013 Roswitha Gerlitz     Gravity has been developed as a site-specific, as well as a Tšte-š-Tšte specific, ten-minute show on the Riverside Terrace. It is a slice of modern communication as...

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03

August

Mme Butterfly: The One Man Opera

Saturday 3rd August & Sunday 4th August, 2013 Ignacio Jarquin Productions     Fast forward thirty years from the end of Puccini’s iconic opera, Butterfly’s son has travelled to America to meet his father for the first time....

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10

August

Guilt

Saturday 10th August & Sunday 11th August, 2013   Paul Evernden     Inspired by the life of Hildegard of Bingen and using a text fashioned from three different pieces of her writing interspersed with the canonical hours, Guilt is a...

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17

August

Maria de Buenos Aires

Saturday 17th August & Sunday 18th August, 2013 Opera at Home [PERFORMED IN SPANISH]     Genesis The only tango opera in the world, written by Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer, presented by Opera at Home. This performance of...

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03

August

Two Clowns: Pagliacci and Gorgonio

Saturday 3rd August & Sunday 4th August, 2013   Piebald Productions   Genesis I have an enduring fascination with clowns, and an abiding desire to blur the gap between music and theatre by composing in both languages. Meeting Alban and...

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03

August

Black Sand

Saturday 3rd August & Sunday 4th August, 2013 Soap Opera Productions   Genesis In April 2012, the SANDMAN – a horror operetta based on ETA Hoffman’s short story – was performed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, directed by...

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10

August

State of Being

Saturday 10th August 20:10-21:40 & Sunday 11th August, 2013 Warwick Blair Ensemble     Genesis STATE OF BEING started life as a heavily deconstructed interpretation of a novel – one that replaced the importance of narrative meaning...

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13

August

The Crocodile

Thursday 15th August & Friday 16th August, 2013   Age of Anxiety     Genesis Age of Anxiety’s newest and most exciting challenge comes in the form of THE CROCODILE – an opera written by Llewelyn ap Myrddin. Originally...

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17

August

Dart’s Love

Saturday 17th August & Sunday 18th August, 2013   Tête à Tête   We’re delighted to announce that Kerry Andrew’s Dart’s Love won the Best Stage Work Award in the 2014 British Composer Awards. We commissioned and...

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17

August

The Hidden Valley

Saturday 17th August & Sunday 18th August, 2013 Richard Barnard, in association with Welsh National Opera   Genesis   THE HIDDEN VALLEY was commissioned by WNO MAX and has grown from the stories, people and landscape of the Welsh...

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03

August

Indigestion

Saturday 3rd August & Sunday 4th August, 2013     New Space Productions     Genesis   INDIGESTION was conceived by Eleanor Craddock, in late 2010 – why couldn’t the immediacy of site-­‐specific theatre be...

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18

August

Nancy’s Lament

Sunday 18th August, 2013 18:30-18:40   FREE event on Riverside Studios Terrace     Genesis   LAMENT is an entirely devised opera based on Monteverdi’s dramatic aria, ‘l’Arianna’. We took the character’s story and brought...

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08

August

Vivienne

Thursday 8th August & Friday 9th August, 2013   McCaldin Arts   Genesis   After considering Shelley’s tempestuous relationships in A Voice of One Delight, Stephen McNeff and I found ourselves drawn to another literary subject....

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August

The End of Civilisation As We Know It

Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd August, 2013   Lore Lixenberg   Genesis   THE END OF CIVILISATION AS WE KNOW IT was written during a winter residency in Venice 2010/11.   It was inspired not only by that sinking city but also by a...

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13

August

Jane’s Contemporary Clinic

Sunday 18th August, 2013 Tête à Tête     Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2013 put a call out to anyone who wanted to experiment with writing extended vocal techniques to submit their works to Jane’s Contemporary Clinic.  ...

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13

August

INNOVATION, INNOVATION, INNOVATION

Friday 9th August, 2013 14:00-17:00 Embracing the digital revolution   Is our work fit for the digital age? How can we exploit digital media to promote our work?   The digital revolution is sweeping the arts and the cultural industries:...

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15

August

Zaum: Beyond Mind

Thursday 15th August & Friday 16th August, 2013   Mitslalim   Genesis   ZAUM: BEYOND THE MIND began in 2010 as a duo work between two composer-­‐performers. The development of the work was a process that can be best described as...

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