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Powder her face

Title: Powder her face [videorecording] / composer, Thomas Adès ; libretto, Philip Hensher ; an LWT production for Channel 4 in association with RM Associates.
Author: Adès, Thomas.
Publication: [London] : Digital Classics, c2005.

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Description

1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

"Written by Thomas Adès in 1995, at the age of 24, Powder her face is based on the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, a woman brazenly avaricious for money and sexual experience but whose story, remarks Adès, shows that 'even horrible people are tragic.' Set in the early 1990s, the aged and isolated duchess is seen living at London's Dorchester Hotel, oblivious to her now strained financial circumstances and her imminent eviction. A series of flashbacks to her colourful past in the '30s, '50s and '60s, are enacted by three hotel workers who, in the present, treat her with barely-concealed derision"--On container.

Subjects

Note

Chamber opera in 7 acts.
Bonus documentary: Thomas Adès : music for the 21st century / produced and directed by Gerald Fox, 1999 (51 min.).
Program notes and libretto in English (6 p.) inserted in container.

Credits (note)

Directed for stage by David Alden ; set design, Jennifer Lernke ; costume design, Gideon Davey.

Event (note)

Originally produced for Channel 4 Television in 1999.

System Details (note)

DVD; soundtrack in stereo.; aspect ratio 16:9.

Language (note)

Sung in English.

Call Number

*LDV 632

LCCN

5051083000666

OCLC

71292979

Author

Adès, Thomas.

Title

Powder her face [videorecording] / composer, Thomas Adès ; libretto, Philip Hensher ; an LWT production for Channel 4 in association with RM Associates.

Imprint

[London] : Digital Classics, c2005.

System Details

DVD; soundtrack in stereo.; aspect ratio 16:9.

Performer

Mary Plazas (Duchess) ; Heather Buck (Maid) ; Daniel Norman (Electrician) ; Graeme Broadbent (Hotel manager) ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group ; Thomas Adès, conductor.

Credits

Directed for stage by David Alden ; set design, Jennifer Lernke ; costume design, Gideon Davey.

Event

Originally produced for Channel 4 Television in 1999.

Language

Sung in English.

Added Author

Hensher, Philip. Librettist

Plazas, Mary, 1966- Performer

Buck, Heather (Soprano) Performer

Norman, Daniel (Tenor) Performer

Broadbent, Graeme, 1962- Performer

Alden, David, director.

Kernke, Jennifer. Set designer

Davey, Gideon. Costume designer

Fox, Gerald. Director

Adès, Thomas. Conductor

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Performer

Channel Four (Great Britain)

London Weekend Television (Firm). Production personnel

Reiner Moritz Associates. Production personnel

Digital Classics (Firm)

Other Standard Identifier

5051083000666

Publisher No.

DC10002 Digital Classics

Research Call Number

*LDV 632 Notes and libretto on file.

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