Red Hat Opera

If you missed our opera QueerLove, you can join the watch party this Friday from anywhere in the world at 7pm UK time! The screening of the 40 minute opera will be followed by a short Q&A. Book your FREE ticket now!

QueerLove: The Watch Party | Tête à Tête An intergenerational tale of q***r love, told through their love letters across the years from archives and the present-day.

Introducing the cast of QueerLove https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/q***rlove/ - one cast member at a time.
Meet our wonderful singer/co-creator Hestor Dart

Hestor Dart is a singer, musician and maker with an interest in expansive and ugly sound, traditional crafts and collaborative practice. Some current obsessions include weaving songs, trash music and the tale of True Thomas. They are one half of the duo loomeweight,with Patricia Auchterlonie.
Hestor is a founding member of The Ruffians, a new music collective with a taste for the experimental and the absurd. They are also a member of Vox Urbane, a vocal ensemble led byHelen Meyerhoff and Dan Ludford-Thomas,which
launched in April 2023.
Hestor graduated with an MMus distinction from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in 2023, where they were the recipient of the LindaHirst Award for excellence in contemporary music.
They are one of six participants in the inaugural 2023-24 VOICEBOX programme, delivered by Juliet Fraser in partnership with Britten Pears Arts; City, University of London; Sound Festival and Hawkwood Centre for Future Learning.

Introducing the cast of QueerLove https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/q***rlove/ - one cast member at a time.
Meet Sholto Biscoe-Taylor, one of our performers/singers-co-creators who is going to introduce himself:

'I decided to pursue music professionally whilst living in Berlin, I had moved there alone and found that music offered me a community and a shared language whilst I got to grips with German.
I returned to London to begin my undergraduate and am now in my final year of my masters at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama, studying with David Pollard.
In the last couple of years I have found a love for new music and cross genre collaboration. This has led me to perform in a range of contemporary operas, start writing my own texts and the founding of my own q***r space, Queering the Score, which promotes the performance of new live music in an environment somewhere between a party and a concert.'

Come and see/hear Sholto and all of our other wonderful cast members on 20th September at The Cockpit, London.
QueerLove - part of Tête-à-Tête The Opera Festival 2024

Come to our new opera QueerLove!!
https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/q***rlove/
QueerLove explores relationships in the LGBTQ+ community through the medium of the love letter. Created with a cast of q***r artists creating and performing songs, dance, classical and electronic sound and cabaret, this opera is a dazzling, glittering, life-affirming celebration of deep human connection. The piece was inspired by letters from q***r archives and present-day interviews. It is devised by the composer in collaboration with the cast members, bringing different voices and experiences together and q***ring the operatic hierarchy. Immerse yourself in some q***r love!
Part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024

QueerLove | Tête à Tête An intergenerational tale of q***r love, told through their love letters across the years from archives and the present-day.