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Thursday 30 July to Sunday 16 August
Tête à Tête - The Opera Festival
Tête à Tête presents their biggest programme yet - over thirty new works of entirely 21st century drama driven by music.
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 | Thu 30 Jul & Fri 31 Jul
Against Oblivion Part 2
What do we think when we look back on our lives? Three singers from very different vocal traditions consider their own life stories.
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The Weather Man
Opera North’s new chamber opera celebrates the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth.
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Flights Into Darkness
A thrilling journey of one man's descent into madness. But will you be complicit as his confession unfolds and his sanity disintegrates?
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 | Sat 01 Aug
Circus Tricks
Three vignettes portray circus performers desperate to break the daily cycle of their act. It will leave you laughing, spellbound and utterly entranced.
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The Emergency Recital
Hotfoot from his worldwide mission to spread operatic joy and pain, Richard Thomas is released for one night only: Glad to oblige, ready to annoy.
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 | Sun 02 Aug
The Song of Margery Kempe
Where Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads meets The Exorcist - surely an experience not to be missed!
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Far Away and Long Ago
Did you enjoy fairy stories as a child? This production puts the grim into the Brothers Grimm with a dark re-telling of some of the old classics.
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High Noon to Jacko's Hour
Imagine the classic Western High Noon, retold on a funfair in Leeds 2009. A taut, twisting, thriller with a cliff-hanger of an ending. Hold on to your seats!
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 | Thu 06 Aug & Fri 07 Aug
Gutter Press
Enjoy this edgy satire that bristles with wit and squirms with sleaze. Flash a bit of flesh and leave your scruples at the door.
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First Law of Motion
A man on his death bed spends his last days examining how he had left his wife and children. A collaboration of voice, dance and complex harmonies.
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The Star Beast
Huddle round for this intriguing and compelling new work, based on the postmodern fairytale by sci-fi writer Nicholas Stuart Gray.
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Songs of a Recollected Lover
Be part of the development of a new multimedia opera exploring the frailty of human memory and the impossibility of truly understanding the one you love.
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Little Instruments of Apprehension
What we know and fear is formed through our: eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. This performance explores how we use our ‘instruments’ to move from protection and release, paranoia and ecstasy.
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 | Sat 08 Aug
Passing Afflictions
The Wizard of Oz is the inspiration for this brilliant story of three ‘30 something’ women who are preparing for a hen night with Dorothy.
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 | Sun 09 Aug
Flam
A woman sits alone in a café. Her friend appears, late, flustered. They greet each other and sing together. They take off their coats. They are wearing the same clothes.
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 | Sat 08 Aug
Impropera
Impropera is on-the-spot opera improvisation using audience suggestion. You’re invited to be part of a new show built afresh every night, led by six brilliantly inventive minds and voices.
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Stolen Voices
The wonderfully engaging clarinettist Neyire Ashworth explores the vibrant and riveting personal story of her Anglo-Turkish upbringing, using only her own voice and clarinet.
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Cabaret Fou
Cabaret Fou explore the genre of cabaret song, from its beginnings in French cafes, post war America, to 21st Britain.
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| Sun 09 Aug
Passing Afflictions
The Wizard of Oz is the inspiration for this brilliant story of three ‘30 something’ women who are preparing for a hen night with Dorothy.
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Impropera
Impropera is on-the-spot opera improvisation using audience suggestion. You’re invited to be part of a new show built afresh every night, led by six brilliantly inventive minds and voices.
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Stolen Voices
The wonderfully engaging clarinettist Neyire Ashworth explores the vibrant and riveting personal story of her Anglo-Turkish upbringing, using only her own voice and clarinet.
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 | Thu 13 Aug & Fri 14 Aug
Ride and One Dark Night
In Ride a cycle courier, a pedestrian and a tango make a fifteen minute love story and One Dark Night sees a woman back in her flat after another dreary day at work.
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Ula
This tense thriller sees a New York film writer lost in the Highlands and guest of a fisherman and his daughter. Love unfolds but with unexpected consequences.
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Shadowplays
Featuring a singing contortionist, performing shadows and video this production explores the interdependence of shadow and substance, inspired by Dada artist Kurt Schwitters.
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The Singing Bone
A tale of betrayal from the macabre pen of the Brothers Grimm, completely re-imagined by Stephen Crowe as an opera for children.
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As I Have Now Memoyre
This production builds an installation-set during the performance and invites the audience to walk through it and investigates the psychology of singing through a singing teacher and her pupil.
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Wallen
The incredible talents of siblings composer/singer/pianist Errolyn and jazz composer/trumpeter Byron Wallen explore the untold story of extraordinary talents in WALLEN.
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 | Sat 15 Aug
Who Am I?
Once upon a time every child was a mermaid, transformed into human form and destined to live forever... until one night they are invited to return to the world of water.
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Songs For Our Age
The writing and life experience of two different generations of Welsh valley residents have been bought together by asking “what is it like to get old?” and “What will it be like when I am old?”.
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| Sun 16 Aug
Who Am I?
Once upon a time every child was a mermaid, transformed into human form and destined to live forever... until one night they are invited to return to the world of water.
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Surf Taliz
Welsh National Opera went to the beach to introduce young people to opera by exploring the connection between music and sport capturing their stories, songs and surfing experiences.
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