Le Gateau Chocolat’s work extends beyond the world of drag – he has a busy career in the field of contemporary opera and performance.
Le Gateau Chocolat’s work as a solo artist began in 2011 when he premièred his first solo show in the Adelaide Fringe, which then went on to tour the world as part of different festivals; Edinburgh Fringe and a subsequent run at Menier Chocolate Factory London, Wroclaw in Poland, Christchurch, Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney Opera House.
Since then he has worked with an Olivier Award winning circus (La Clique/La Soiree) and alongside contemporary composers – specifically Julian Philips (“Varjak Paw” ROH) Jonathan Dove (“Tobias and The Angel” Young Vic), Jocelyn Pook (“Ingerland” at ROH) and Anxiety Fanfare at Hull City of Culture 2017 and New Music Biennial and Orlando Gough a collaborator on “Black” (Imago, Glyndebourne.) He has sung at Wigmore Hall and with Basement Jaxx at The Barbican. Most recently Le Gateau performed the finale at the Culture& Cyborgs Late at the Wellcome Collection in March 2019 and in Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the 2019 Bayreuth Festival.