Adès: Powder Her Face

Adès: Powder Her Face

Adès: Powder Her Face
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Composer: Thomas Adès
Performer: Jill Gomez
Performer: Valdine Anderson
Performer: Niall Morris
Performer: Almeida Ensemble
Performer: Roger Bryson
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-11-03
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Overture
  2. Oo Aa! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
  3. I See. This Is What Is Has Come To
  4. Take It From Me
  5. Interlude
  6. Of Course She's Done Well
  7. I Could Never Grow Bored Of Dukedoms
  8. I Hear Him Coming (Pantomine)
  9. Interlude
  10. Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
  11. Interlude
  12. ...Mm...Ah!...How May I Help You? ...Mm...Ah!...Room Service?
  13. What Have You Got There?
  14. Come Here
  15. Interlude
  16. Is Daddy Squiffy?
  17. Are You Saying The Duchess Is A Whore?
  18. Ha Ha Ha Ha... (Paper Chase)
Music CD 2
  1. Did She?...Of Course She Did
  2. Order. Silence
  3. But Now I Have Heard Something New
  4. Did You Hear - What He Said?
  5. So That Is All
  6. Interlude
  7. I'd Like To Make One Thing Entirely Clear
  8. Ah! None Left
  9. Interlude/Fifty-Eight, Seventy-Nine
  10. Agh - Who Are You?
  11. That Will Do. You May Go
  12. Broken. It's Broken
  13. Enough...Or Too Much!

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Free Music Review: The Future Of Modern Opera
Hit: 5 Stars

No opera about a sex-crazed English duchess could be all bad, right? "Powder Her Face" lives up to its rave UK reviews, and then some. Ades has an amazing knack of writing accessible music that is also totally modern. At times strongly reminiscent of Britten, at other times a pastiche of composers like Bartok or Stravinsky, his orchestration is powerful and innovative. To non-opera buffs, or those of a more lowbrow persuasion, the thought will occur: "this is what Frank Zappa could have achieved, if he'd tried a bit harder." The Five Star rating is no exaggeration. Watch for the great sloppy thirties-style ballads, Jill Gomez' excellent singing, and the sly way Ades nods a tribute to pretty much every musical form of the 20th century, while retaining proper operatic forms. Buy it!
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Adès: Powder Her Face Poster

In search of a topic for his first opera, Thomas Adès originally turned to Lolita before being drawn to the ironic morality tale of sex, privilege, and the media that furnished the basis for Powder Her Face. Nevertheless, he exudes a Nabokovian delight in the rich possibilities of his allusive musical language. Most winningly, Adès's detailed portrayals of character and mood add depth to the tabloid fall-from-grace story that was the opera's germ. --Thomas May
Simply put, Thomas Adès's chamber opera Powder Her Face will likely be one of the strongest, most compelling pieces of contemporary music you've heard in a long while. The libretto, at once tragic and savagely funny, is by the acclaimed young English novelist Philip Hensher and addresses a resonantly scandalous topic: the glamor-drenched life and downfall of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, whose divorce trial in the '50s set benchmark lows for publicizing someone's sex life. Adès's score is a bona fide masterpiece, combining a broad palette of styles and influences, from tango and Cole Porter to Berg's Lulu and mordant atonality, all scored with brilliant invention for an ensemble of 15 musicians (here conducted by the composer). But Adès, born in 1971, succeeds where others have stumbled: he's a true man of the theater, and there's no pastiche in the music, which rises above the level of collage (except for one purposely inserted camp tune) and instead coheres into a seamless, thrusting, witty, highly dramatic whole. The four-member cast, led by Jill Gomez as the Duchess, is right on target. Valdine Anderson portrays a series of mocking antagonists (given high-wire acrobatic vocalisms) who precipitate the downfall, while Niall Morris and Roger Bryson bring engaging variety to their multiple roles as the male figures in the Duchess's world. An event not to be missed. --Pierre Ruhe

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