| Date and venue | Title | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|
| 19-Aug-2012 Riverside Studios: Studio 2, Hammersmith | Anaïs Nin at Tête à Tête | Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade |
 Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival has once again succeeded in showcasing with flair some of the most daring and innovative small-scale operas. This Sunday, a diverse audience gathered at London’s Riverside Studios for the performance of Louis Andriessen’s recent monodrama Anaïs Nin (2009-10). There was a lively appetizer to each of the six main productions that day in the form of Lite Bites, a series of amusing micro-operas staged in the foyer area.Read full review... | ||
| 16-Aug-2012 Riverside Studios: Studio 3, Hammersmith | The Francis Bacon Opera at Tête à Tête | Paul Kilbey |
 “I’m an old man, but I’m profoundly optimistic about nothing.”
Francis Bacon said no end of fascinating things, about painting, art, life, everything really. So listening to his thoughts, especially when guided along by an interviewer as expert as Melvyn Bragg, was always going to make for an entertaining evening.Read full review... | ||
| 10-Aug-2012 Riverside Studios: Studio 2, Hammersmith | Thrashing the Sea God – with feeling | Katy S Austin |
 The 2012 Tête à Tête opera festival is continuing on the bold course begun in 2007. Over halfway through its breathless 18-day schedule, it all seems as fresh as when it started. Its sixth season contains some typically outlandish operatic gems, most relatively brief in length. Plots have included physicists, sado-masochists, Mike the Headless Chicken and mermaids (not at the same time, of course).
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| 9-Aug-2012 Riverside Studios: Studio 3, Hammersmith | Size Zero Opera at Tête à Tête: The Sandman | Paul Kilbey |
 Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival is an amazing opportunity for emerging opera companies and performers, giving valuable time and attention to bold and strange new works. But few pieces in the festival’s six-year history can have been bolder or stranger – or, quite possibly, better – than Size Zero Opera’s The Sandman, a brilliant and surreal creation which deserves more than the two performances it is receiving here.
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