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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival

Friday 27th & Saturday 28th June 2025

Tickets:                      £6.50, £17.50 or £29.50

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Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival

27 & 28 June 2025

The UK's engine room of adventurous new opera opens this year in Newcastle with two nights of pioneering work from local artists mentored by Tête à Tête.

27

June

It Must Have Been a Tuesday - 7.30pm

Two heartfelt and moving true stories about ethnicity and secret relations spoken and sung by Joanna Gamble and Neil Balfour, accompanied by Ellie Gaynard, violin, with music by Russell Plows.

27

June

Rossini and the Overture - 8.30pm

A impersonator’s been arrested until he finishes his promised opera. Can you help finish the show and get released?

28

June

Festival Shorts - 7.30pm

A smörgåsbord of operatic extracts and experiments, from the North-East

 

With four shows in one hour, come and see tales of dragons, queer wanderings, and ferocious rivalries as their creators start bringing them into the world

28

June

Ghost- 9pm

If you died, who would you want to haunt? Grungy electronica meets classical opera in a queer, neurodivergent ghost story like no other!

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Opening Hours 
We are open 11am - 10pm Wednesday - Friday and 6pm-10pm on Saturdays
 

Address
Alphabetti Theatre, St James Boulevard, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom NE1 4HP

 

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0191 261 9125. Our phone lines are open Monday-Tuesday: 10 - 6
Wednesday - Friday: 10 - 10
Saturday: 6 - 10

 

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Good Boy Rex the Theatre Dog
Arts Council England
Community Foundation, Newcastle Culture Investment Fund Supported by Newcastle City Council
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The Barbour Foundation
Esmee Fairburn Foundation

With thanks to the
Fagus Anstruther Memorial Trust

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