August
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...
An ever popular presence at the festival, Tte Tte 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...
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...
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...
July
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Saturday 10th August & Sunday 11th August, 2013 Roswitha Gerlitz Gravity has been developed as a site-specific, as well as a Tte--Tte specific, ten-minute show on the Riverside Terrace. It is a slice of modern communication as...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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. ...
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:...
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...
