Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2026


Tête à Tête’s flagship festival returns, presenting adventurous new opera from across the UK and internationally.

Shows include stories from Cornwall to Hong Kong, Scotland to Ukraine, ancient myths to contemporary circus.

Since 2007, the festival has premiered hundreds of works and remains a vital platform for emerging artists.

Tuesday 8 to Sunday 20 September 2026

8 Sep
Auditorium
Between

Disability and artistic identity

9 Sep
Auditorium
Eight Days

Mary Stuart's final reckoning.

9 Sep
Auditorium
The History of Mr Polly: Part One

Care to set your life on fire?

10 Sep
Auditorium
Orpheus and Euridice

Orpheus and Euridice

10 Sep
Auditorium
Frauenliebe und Leben - Reimagined by ÀLÁ

Schumann and Nina Simone meet

11 Sep
Auditorium
The Dunwich Horror: An Opera

An interactive horror opera

11 Sep
Auditorium
The Rag Animals

A pub folk jam tells a story.

12 Sep
Auditorium
The Trial of the Four

East-West musical epic.

13 Sep
Auditorium
Making Europe Audible

Dropping bombs meet flowers

13 Sep
Auditorium
From The Edda

She knows how the world ends...

15 Sep
Auditorium
Of Earth and Quill 2

Whose stories survive?

15 Sep
Auditorium
A Different Kind of Heartbreak

Comedy music show about heart holes

16 Sep
Auditorium
Arlodhes a Shalott

Cornish reimagining of the poem

16 Sep
Auditorium
Dreva

A lullaby for grown-ups

17 Sep
Auditorium
Emma or Emily

Emma or Emily

17 Sep
Auditorium
Androida (or Robots have no Feelings)

Sci-fi meets classic love story

18 Sep
Auditorium
Fort

Two teenagers wait for a ghost.

18 Sep
Auditorium
Azovstal

An opera about Azovstal.

19 Sep
Auditorium
Broken Ivy/Fence Off

What if our human limits break?

19 Sep
Auditorium
The Promise/Meet the Philips

What happens when our limits break?

20 Sep
Auditorium
Frankenstein

A new take on the classic tale.