Tête-à-Tête is branching out ever further into new venues. Having been to a dance theatre and a nightclub, we now found ourselves in a school theatre. Fittingly, the evening’s programme…
Although the first piece (One Day This Will be Long Ago) was difficult and the second (China Doll) plain agony to sit through, the Tête-à-Tête Clubnight at Egg, London finished with…
Composer Tim Benjamin gives us a masterclass in how to create a one-handed opera twice over in his Life Stories. Rest in Peace, inspired by a short story from Chekhov (Life…
Psyche – Alex Groves Psyche asks us to get up close and personal with opera (alone, barefoot and blindfolded) for ten minutes, and the results are, to me, spine-tingling. On…
Njogel opens with spectacular beauty, with a small wooden ship bobbing up and down along a ship’s boom, its furled sail representing the waves of the sea around the Shetland…
A stylised and intense form of high drama, Japanese Noh is undoubtedly as well suited to operatic treatment as Greek tragedy. Powerful emotions, violent actions and brutal social strictures abound…
None of our Royals’ chaotic personal arrangements have been so constitutionally cataclysmic as Edward VIII’s passion for Wallis Simpson. Britain’s flag-waving fervour during the Royal Wedding, the Jubilee and the…
Unfortunately, despite strong instrumentation and committed singing, Possession! just doesn’t quite work in practice, and remains permanently hamstrung by its flat production. We leave this opera, therefore, an extremely long way…
The Fisherman’s Brides is a small opera set in a Highland fishing village, giving voice to the thoughts and fears of the women left behind as their men go off to…
Gleaming with creativity and humour, this beautiful minimalist production by workshOPERA for the Tête à Tête Festival at Central St Martins will charm audiences of all ages, and comes thoroughly…