(Photo Credit: Claire Shovelton /@claireshov) “Impresarios” don’t come any more entertaining than this. Simultaneously improv artists and opera singers, this young opera company direct, produce, stage manage, perform and (at least in part) promote all their work, making them a real fringe wonder. Their schtick is all about creating a full, one-hour-long opera – or, as some have called it, {…}
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival announced the full lineup of performances for 2023. The festival runs from Aug. 29-Sept. 12. Here’s what the 2023 Opera Festival will offer audiences. Laura Reid presents a song cycle of hope using recorded sounds, voices, and instruments. Inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Hope is a thing with Feathers,” contemporary writers Ahed Al Hamwi, {…}
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2022 has announced its lineup. Under the theme of “burgeoning with life,” the productions promise to be one-of-a-kind. The Festival runs from August 15-September 11, 2022. Here’s what’s on tap. Kicking things off is a performance of “We Are the Monsters,” a Celtic fusion project created by members of Monster Ceilidh Band, Kathryn Tickell {…}
Tête à Tête, the U.K.’s “outlandish opera company,” has announced its wider 2022 season with events scheduled in London, Cornwall, and Newcastle ahead of the 15th iteration of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival in Sept. 2022. In May, the company will present “Odysseys,” six brand-new mini-operas in which unexpected protagonists—from the metamorphosis of a butterfly to a zombie—embark on {…}
This article was written in collaboration with David Salazar. The U.K.’s Tête à Tête’s Festival 2021 will gaze into the future, both utopian and dystopian with programming that includes opera dating apps, sword-wielding sopranos, and an interactive operatic ritual. Here’s a look at what’s in store for festival-goers. Kicking off the Festival is a live performance of “Her War.” The {…}
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival has released a new video which explores how the organization managed to put together a unique festival experience in 2020. Entitled “Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2020 – Learning from Staging Indoor Performances to a Live Audience During a Pandemic,” the short film not only narrates how the festival pulled off its events {…}
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival is set to close out its 2020 edition with two more major events on Nov. 27, 2020. The company is set to present “Elena,” a work that takes audiences into the memories of three generations of women. Additionally, the organization will present “Powder Room Talks: The Women of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival {…}
(Credit: Tete a Tete Festival Official Website) Tête à Tête Opera Festival has unveiled some unique operas that it will be presenting in the coming weeks. First up will “Last Party on Earth,” which will showcase a post-apocalyptic work where two survivors make their way through what’s left of the world until they come across a Queen of Cans in {…}
“The Other Side of the Sea & Beyond,” a program of operatic excerpts performed solo by soprano Héloïse Werner, will be the United Kingdom’s initial foray into bringing live audiences back into the theater. On July 26, Tête à Tête was the first opera company selected to present a live performance of opera in a theater to a live audience. {…}
On August 6, 2019, “Robe” will make its world premiere at The Place in London. Per a press release, the opera is full of science-fiction themes and concepts, “dramatizing the relationship between virtual reality, official history, and raw, personal experience.” At the core of the story is A.I. Edinburg, who wishes to become a city. The work will be feature {…}
The Tête à Tête Opera Festival has announced its new season. The season opens with “Madame Butterflop,” a major subversion of Puccini’s classic. It will star Mary Plazas. Performance Date: July 24, 2019 Next up is “Karaopera, which is a karaoke night for opera lovers. It will be produced by Lucie Treacher at Kings Cross. Performance Date: July 26, 2019 {…}