Red Hat Opera

02/10/2024

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!

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

22/09/2024

Our performance of QueerLove on Friday (as part of Tête-à-Tête The Opera Festival 2024) was such a heartwarming celebration of the journey we've been on in the last few months. If you missed it, or live in another country, you can join the online watch party on 4th October. https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/q***rlove-the-watch-party/ I
n the meantime, here are some fantastic photos by Claire Shovelton.

15/09/2024

Our opera QueerLove is part of the exciting, wacky, colourful, groundbreaking Tête-à-Tête The Opera Festival 2024. And we are delighted to see that we are not the only q***r-themed opera in the festival.
For instance, here's Serenoid - a ghostly, steampunk-flavoured story of q***r romance and found family inspired by online fanfiction and its creative niche spaces!
Check it out this week! And don't forget to come and see QueerLove on Friday as well!

A ghostly, steampunk-flavoured story of q***r romance and found family inspired by online fanfiction. Beam aboard!

14/09/2024

Introducing the cast of QueerLove https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/q***rlove/ - one cast member at a time.
Today we present to you the powerful, unique performer Theo Lowe.

From London , England

Creative practitioner, movement & music

Interested in storytelling & performance

Other interests, anthropology & photography

Supported by arts council England since 2018

12/09/2024

Introducing the cast of QueerLove https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/q***rlove/ - one cast member at a time.
Meet the unique and talented singer/co-creator Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong

Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong is a director, writer and performer from Croydon, passionate about new writing. Her creative practice focuses on collaborating with others to reimagine canonic material and creating original work which champions underrepresented voices.

Training: Royal Academy of Music; University of York

Selected Highlights as performer include:
Just For One Day (Old Vic); Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); Earth Makes No Sound (Southbank Centre & Hull Jazz Festival); The Phantom of the Opera (UK Tour); Caroline, or Change (Playhouse Theatre, West End)

CassiopeiaBA.com

11/09/2024

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.

07/09/2024

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

06/09/2024

Sharing some moments from our rehearsals for QueerLove https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/q***rlove/ with our amazing performers Hestor Dart, Theo Lowe and Rebecca Burden. Exploring how to convey relationships and letter writing in movement and sound. (still from a video by the amazing film-maker Ana De Matos)
Come see the results of the exploration, and the rest of our cast, on 20th September, 7.30, Cockpit Theatre, London. Part of Tête-à-Tête The Opera Festival 2024

04/09/2024

Introducing the cast of QueerLove https://www.tete-a-tete.org.uk/event/q***rlove/ - one cast member at a time. To start, please meet drag artist Medusa Has Been who will be playing the role of Heart - the core of our emotional being!

Medusa Has Been is the newest oldest showgirl in town, having started an oldboylesque career at 60. In past lives, Medusa has been a global facilitator, an academic lecturer, a writer, a triple threat and a runaway. Modestly adored in this life, Medusa Has Been is vividly reimagining their third age and starting much needed intergenerational conversations in between stints as lounge singer and burlesque dancer.

Come see Medusa and all of our other wonderful cast members on 20th September at The Cockpit, London.

02/09/2024

QueerLove - our new non-classical opera about love and identity in the LGBTQ+ community, including songs, contemporary dance, cabaret and drag! - book your ticket now! Part of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival 2024
https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/q***rlove

02/09/2024

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

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