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Tête à Tête (opera Company)
Tête à Tête is an opera company based in Cornwall that currently operates in Cornwall, London and North-East England. Its primary mission is to reach new audiences, support artists' development, and to extend the boundaries of traditional opera. History A charity-based arts company, Tête à Tête was founded in 1997 by its current Artistic Director, Bill Bankes-Jones, the conductor Orlando Jopling and then-administrator Katie Price. Originally the company produced works such as ''The Flying Fox'' (''Die Fledermaus''). This was first performed at the Battersea Arts Centre in 1998 then went to the Purcell Room. ''Shorts'' followed in 1999, again first performed at the Battersea Arts Centre and then revived at the Bridewell Theatre in 2001. ''Shorts'' became Tête à Tête's first touring production. The company established Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival in 2006. The festival has since played host to over 150 guest companies. It is currently led by Bill Bankes-Jones, music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tête à Tête Opera Company
Tête, head in French, may refer to : * Tête (sculpture), ''Tête'' (sculpture), a 1912 work of art by Amedeo Modigliani; one of the most expensive sculptures ever sold * "Je danse dans ma tête", a 1991 song from the Dion chante Plamondon album by Céline Dion * ''Tête-bêche'', a joined pair of stamps in philately * Tête Jaune (died 1828), Iroquois-Métis trapper/furtrader/explorer * Tête Jaune Cache, British Columbia, a town in Canada * Tête à Tête (Murray Head album), ''Tête à Tête'' (Murray Head album), a 2007 studio album by Murray Head * Tête de Moine, a Swiss cheese * Grosse Tête, Louisiana, a village in the United States of America * ''La mauvaise tête'', a 1957 Spirou et Fantasio album * Tête-à-la-Baleine Airport, in Tête-à-La-Baleine, Quebec * a title in the list of Picasso artworks 1911-1920 * Tête Blanche, a mountain in the Alps See also * Roman Catholic Diocese of Tete * Tete Montoliu (1933–1997) * Tété * Teté (1907–1962) * Tete Provinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Andrew
Kerry Andrew (born 5 April 1978) is an English composer, performer and author. They have won four British Composer Awards. They have published three novels and twice been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award. They perform alt-folk music as You Are Wolf and have been a long-standing member of Juice Vocal Ensemble. Life From age 3 to age 6, Andrew lived in Canada with their family. The family subsequently returned to the UK and settled in the Buckinghamshire area. Andrew earned a BA in Music, MA and PhD in Composition, all from the University of York. Career Music Andrew was Composer in Residence at Handel House Museum during 2010-12, and was Visiting Professor of Music at Leeds College of Music in 2015-16 and 2017-18. They won their first British Composer Award in the Making Music Category in 2010 for their choral work ''Fall'', and won two awards in 2014, in the Stage Works category for their wild swimming chamber opera ''Dart's Love'' and in the Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orlando Finto Pazzo
''Orlando finto pazzo'' (; ''Orlando, the Fake Madman'') is an opera (''dramma per musica'') in three acts composed by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Grazio Braccioli. The plot is based on an episode in Matteo Boiardo's unfinished epic poem ''Orlando Innamorato'' (). The second of Vivaldi's known operas, ''Orlando finto pazzo'' premiered in November 1714 (dedication 10 November) at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice. Vivaldi acted as impresario (in partnership with his father Giovanni Battista) as well as composer. Apparently the opera did not meet much approval from the audience and was billed only on few dates, just to be replaced, on 1 December, by a reworking of Giovanni Alberto Ristori's ''Orlando furioso'' (), an opera that the Vivaldi "''impresa''" had very successfully staged in 1713.A good deal of the music of ''Orlando finto pazzo'' (as well as further music by Vivaldi) was interpolated into the revived work, so that it should be considered a fully-fledged new opera by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bruce (composer)
David Bruce (born 1970) is a British composer and YouTuber. Early life Bruce was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1970, but grew up in England. He began his undergraduate music studies in 1988 at the University of Nottingham, where his composition tutors included Jim Fulkerson and Nicholas Sackman. He continued at the Royal College of Music from 1991 to 1993, where he obtained a master's degree in Composition, studying with Timothy Salter and George Benjamin. He received a PhD in Composition at King's College London between 1995 and 1999, under the supervision of Harrison Birtwistle. Career Bruce developed an international reputation as a composer. His work is performed by musicians from around the world, including soprano Dawn Upshaw, klezmer pioneer Giora Feidman and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Upshaw in particular played an important role in bringing Bruce's music to wider attention. She instigated the commission for his opera ''A Bird in Your Ear'' and performed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Grant
Julian Grant (born 3 October 1960) is an English-born classical composer best known for a series of operas. He is also known for chamber music works and his challenging children's music. He is active as composer, journalist, broadcaster and music educator. Biography Julian Grant was born in London, England, and educated at Chichester High School for Boys and Bristol University. In 1985 he won a British Arts Council scholarship to attend the Music Theatre Studio Ensemble at Banff, Alberta, Canada. He returned to England in 1987 and freelanced for, among others, Northern Ballet Theatre, working closely with Christopher Gable on new performing versions of Prokofiev's ''Romeo and Juliet'', and Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'', ''Chester Music, Novello's'' (a reduction of Thea Musgrave's ''Harriet Tubman, a Woman called Moses'') and extensive education work with the London opera houses, notably English National Opera's Russian Tour in 1990. In 1996 he moved with his partner Peter Lighte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Strauss II
Johann Baptist Strauss II (; ; 25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (), was an List of Austrian composers, Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas as well as a violinist. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in the 19th century. Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include "The Blue Danube", "Kaiser-Walzer" (Emperor Waltz), "Tales from the Vienna Woods", "Frühlingsstimmen", and the "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka". Among his operettas, ''Die Fledermaus'' and ''Der Zigeunerbaron'' are the best known. Strauss was the son of Johann Strauss I and his first wife Maria Anna Streim. Two younger brothers, Josef Strauss, Josef and Eduard Strauss, also became composers of light music, although they were neve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph and Courier''. ''The Telegraph'' is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858. In 2013, ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'', which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. It is politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. It was moderately Liberalism, liberal politically before the late 1870s.Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalismp 159 ''The Telegraph'' has had a number of news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II by rookie reporter Clare Hollingworth, desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Christiansen
Rupert Christiansen (born 1954) is an English writer, journalist and critic. Life and career Born in London, Christiansen is the grandson of Arthur Christiansen (former editor of the ''Daily Express'') and son of Kay and Michael Christiansen (former editor of the ''Sunday'' and'' Daily Mirror''). He was educated at Millfield and King's College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in English. As a Fulbright scholar, he also attended Columbia University from 1977 to 1978. He was hired by Rodney Milnes as a reviewer for ''Opera'' magazine, and then took over Milnes' column in ''The Spectator''. He went on to write for many other newspapers and periodicals, including '' Harper's and Queen'', '' Vanity Fair'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'' and '' Literary Review'', all of them British or American. He has written a number of books, winning the Somerset Maugham Award in 1988 for ''Romantic Affinities''. His memoir I ''Know you're Going to be Happy'' won the Spear's Memoir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayanna Witter-Johnson
Ayanna Mose Witter-Johnson (born Apr–Jun 1985, London Borough of Islington) is an English composer, singer, songwriter and cellist. Her notable performances include opening for the MOBO Awards "Pre-Show" in 2016, and playing the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 6 March 2018. Background and career Ayanna Witter-Johnson was born in London, England, of Jamaican heritage; her mother is a teacher and her father is a television, film and theatre actor Wil Johnson.Dionne Grant"Ayanna Witter-Johnson: String Sensation" '' The Voice'', 8 February 2014. She began playing the piano when she was four years old and the cello at 13."Musicvein Interviews Ayanna Witter-Johnson" 14 March 2014. Witter-Johnson completed a first-class degree in Classical Composition at the |
Alastair White
Alastair White (born 1988) is a Scottish-New Zealand composer and writer. His work is characterised by a lyrical complexity which draws influence from technology, science, politics and materialist philosophy. Operas The fashion-opera cycle was created between 2018 and 2021. Combining fashion, dance, drama, poetry and music in what White calls 'contingent dialectics,' it was described by BBC Radio 3 as "a whole exciting new genre of art." In 2018, ''WEAR'' premiered at Tete-a-Tete''.'' An immersive performance at The Crossing, Kings Cross, London, it incorporated dance and fashion to explore the role of objects in changing perceptions of space and time. It was shortlisted for a Scottish Award for New Music, and revived by Opera in the City at the Bridewell Theatre the following year. These ideas were developed in 2019's ''ROBE,'' an opera death with themes of artificial intelligence, virtual reality and cartography. It premiered at The Place and was nominated for a Creativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CN Lester
CN Lester (born 1984) is a British classical and alternative music, alternative singer-songwriter, as well as an LGBT rights, LGBT and transgender rights activist. They were rated 41st on ''The Independent on Sunday'''s 2013 Pink List, which acknowledged their co-founding of the Queer Youth Network and their founding the UK's first gay–straight alliance, as well as their fundraising for queer causes and writing for publications such as ''New Statesman'' and ''So So Gay''. Career Lester is a mezzo-soprano who specializes in castrati and travesti (theatre), travesti opera, as well as early music, early and classical music and works by female composers. Classic FM (UK), Classic FM has showcased their work and research on travesti roles, while BBC Radio 4's ''Front Row (radio programme), Front Row'' has included their work with Silent Opera. They've cited Lou Reed and Tchaikovsky as amongst their earliest influences, aged 3–4. As a child, Lester began learning to play the pian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Na'ama Zisser
Na'ama Zisser () is a London-based composer. Her work is visually driven and often collaborative with other art forms, with a focus on opera, contemporary dance, moving image, installations, staged performances, and instrumental music. Her practice involves the use of both electronic and acoustic mediums. Her music is concerned with intonation, textures, intimacy, and nostalgia, and has been described as ‘free of cliches’ (The Guardian) and ‘hauntingly melodic’ (The Stage). She is the first to introduce cantorial music into contemporary opera. She is currently based in London. Early life and education Zisser was raised in an ultra-orthodox background. The fourth of five siblings, she began her classical music education at the age of six, playing piano. She went on to study composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, before moving to London to study at the Royal College of Music with Mark-Anthony Turnage where she won the Hurlston & Cobbett Prize. She comple ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
