First Lady Melania Trump is getting an opera this September as part of the Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2025 The work, which is titled “Melania: The Opera,” is set to world premiere on Sept. 25, 2025 at The Cockpit, and is written by Jeremy Limb & Melinda Hughes. The farcical comic opera is set in 2027, and imagines {…}
The Tête à Tête festival in Marylebone’s Cockpit Theatre is the heart of experimental and fringe opera performance in London. Orchestras and companies have lately been rushing, since lockdown loosened, to be “first” to come back – first performance of a symphony to a live audience (Aurora Orchestra at the beginning of September); first performance of an opera in London {…}
(Credit: Nadine Benjamin) The Téte à téte Festival has announced the program for its 2020 season “in an imaginary world.” With the cancelation of the actual festival, the company will be replacing it with a more abstract one that may or may not happen in reality. This new concept will now feature several world premieres that reflect that social milieu. {…}
(Credit: Tete a Tete Festival Official Website) The Tête à Tête Festival has declared a Manifesto regarding its 2020 festival. According to the statement, the company will go ahead with its festival whether it be by “act of imagination” or in a real physical space. In a publication on its official website, the company declares “We hope and aim to {…}
Virtually Opera is set to present “The Perfect Opera” at the 2019 upcoming Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival. The work is written by Peter Davis and Leo Doulton and will be presented on August 3 and 10 at the Edinburgh Fringe at Paradise in the Vaults. The work will be a sketch comedy opera featuring Macbeth and a pantomime {…}