Tête à Tête Announces 2025 London Opera Festival Program
By Afton MarkayTête à Tête Opera Festival returns to London.
Janet Oates and Simon Pettifar’s new opera, “Hidden Lovers” is produced by Mayhem Opera.
Performance Date: September 22, 2025
“The Fairy Temple” by Lucinda Guy and Robert Herrick is next.
Performance Date: September 23, 2025
Young Opera Makers presents “Peeled Back: A Triple Bill.” The program features “Get Your Licks In” by Eric Burton Davis and Noah McCreadie, “The Truth of This” by Dawn Erridge and Rebekah King, and “Peel” by Pablo Martinez and Hannah Hayden.
Performance Date: September 23, 2025
“SKARБ” is a Folk Oratorio in Cabaret Style rooted in Belarusian folk music and storytelling. Creators Alesia Mankouskaya and Evelina Shchadryna perform.
Performance Date: September 24, 2025
Amy Bryce, Rosie Middleton, Sarah Parkin, Maya-Leigh Rosenwasser, and Catherine Valve perform in “Plastic Bodies.”
Performance Date: September 25, 2025
“Melania the Opera” by Jeremy Limb, Melinda Hughes, and Rich Hall is next. Hughes stars in the title role. Daniel Slater directs. Guy Murgatroyd is the musical director.
Performance Date: September 25, 2025
Becca Madden, Stephen Brown, Dominic Bentham, Rebecca Chandler, and Emily Linane star in “Improvised Opera.”
Performance Date: September 25, 2025
“The Joy of Opera” is a two day practical celebration for opera professionals and fans to connect and rediscover the joy first found in opera.
Performance Dates: September 27 & 28, 2025
Moira Loh and Yee Ee Ping star in “A Singapore Trilogy,” by Chen Zhangyi and Jack Lin.
Performance Date: September 30, 2025
Ben Hoppe and Edie Bailey’s one-act opera, “As the Crows Fly” features Ash Howard, Hestor Dart, Mica Liberta-Smith, and Jasper Kindleysides.
Performance Date: October 1, 2025
Composer and librettist Helen Epega provides vocals in their one-woman opera “Of Earth and Quill.”
Performance Date: October 1, 2025
Up next is “The Rapture” by Ed Lamber, Norman Welch, and Walter Hall.
Performance Date: October 2, 2025
Adrift Opera produces “The Flying Shadow” by Robert Fokkens and Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh.
Performance Date: October 2, 2025
“Bitter Visions: By Order of Hildegard” is performed by Ololyga.
Performance Date: October 3, 2025
Sarah Parkin performs in their work “TROUBLEMAKER.”
Performance Date: October 3, 2025
Quito Clothier, Elizabeth Marshall, Anna Loveday, and Olekseii Zasiadko perform in Kevin Rodgers’ “The Murderous Delusions of Gavrilo K.” Valeria Perboni directs.
Performance Date: October 4, 2025
Rania Chrysostomou and Caroline Coetzee’s “Hidden Star – The Story of Annie Walker” is next.
Performance Date: October 5, 2025
Robert Reid Allan and Bob Allan’s “A Small Group of People” is a new documentary music theatre work which investigates the experiences of musicians who have been arrested and imprisoned as a result of civil disobedience and non-violent protest.
Performance Date: October 5, 2025
The film version of Bahaa El Ansary and Sophie Rashbrook’s “Schokolade!” is screened.
Performance Date: October 8, 2025
A watch party is held for the operatic film version of , “A Life of One’s Own.”
Performance Date: October 8, 2025
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