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GENESIS FOUNDATION SUPPORTS Tête à Tête’s BLIND DATE TOUR

The Genesis Foundation is supporting the music theatre company Tête à Tête in its work during 2007/08 with options to extend its involvement. The main purpose is to work with Tête à Tête on audience development in the field of innovative, contemporary opera.

Genesis has also appointed Bill Bankes-Jones, Tête à Tête’s imaginative artistic director, to direct the opera version of Ionesco’s play, La Cantatrice Chauve, which is being written by French composer Jean-Philippe Calvin. Workshopped as part of the OperaGenesis programme at the Royal Opera House, the premiere of La Cantatrice will take place in Paris in 2009.

John Studzinski, Founder and Chairman of the Genesis Foundation, says: "The work of Tête à Tête fits well with our brief to help develop new audiences and I have been impressed for some time by the brilliant and innovative marketing approaches of Bill Bankes-Jones and his team as well as by the quality of their productions. We are delighted to be adding Tête à Tête to our roster of partners."

For more about Tête à Tête and the Blind Date Tour go to: www.tete-a-tete.org.uk.