How You Can Help
Donate Now2025 sees us once more firing up audiences and artists across the UK.
The season begins with our festival that spreads beyond London for the first time! We’ll be opening with two Summer nights in Newcastle at Alphabetti Theatre showcasing the work we’ve developed with local artists over the last couple of years, we then return with great joy to London in early Autumn and our friends at The Cockpit.
Meanwhile we are in Newcastle working across the Summer on QUEST 2025 a music project in North Shields, created for and with the North Tyneside community. We will deliver 11 transformative workshops in local state primary and secondary schools, led by award-winning North East poet Bob Beagrie and composer Tim Burke.
Over the course of these, two parallel groups of school pupils at Key Stage 2 level (7-10-year-olds) and Key Stage 4/5 level (14-18-year-olds) will co-write the text and co-compose the music of a number of operatic scenes and choruses inspired by fantasy, from sword and sorcery to computer gaming.
The level of shared authorship in this project is unprecedented in the UK opera sector, building on the Arts Council-funded research project Tim Burke has recently undertaken.
This will culminate in two performances at The Exchange in North Shields, with a choir of 75 Key Stage 2 pupils, 50 Key Stage 4/5 pupils and the 100 adult singers of North Shields Opera Chorus. The project offers potentially life—changing creative opportunities to around 150 young people from schools where up to 77.4% receive free school meals. Across the board this project pioneers new levels of inclusivity and inspires fantastic levels of creativity.
How you can help right now
Tête à Tête:The Opera Festival 2025
27-28 June: Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle,
22 September – 5 October: The Cockpit, London
6 October – 10 October: Online
Target: £10,000
QUEST 2025
Autumn 2025
Target: £10,000
Click here to go through to the National Fundraising Scheme platform to donate
Tête à Tête is a registered charity, Charity No. 1069055.
Other ways to donate:
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Online Banking
Use your personal online banking facility to make a donation (either one off or annually) direct to:
Tête à Tête Productions Ltd | Account No 11552341 | Sort Code 40 44 39 | Bank HSBC Twickenham
If you are a UK Taxpayer, the value of your donation can increase by nearly a third under the Gift Aid Scheme at no additional cost to you; we will send you a gift aid form to complete when we receive your donation.
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Tête à Tête c/o Krowji, West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3GE