Powder her face
By: composer, Thomas Adès ; libretto, Philip Hensher ; directed for stage by David Alden ; directed by Margaret Williams
Contributors: Plazas, Mary, 1966- singer; Buck, Heather, singer; Norman, Daniel, 1970- singer; Broadbent, Graeme, 1962- singer; Fox, Gerald, film director, film producer; Kernke, Jennifer, designer; Davey, Gideon, costume designer; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group; Channel Four (Great Britain); Digital Classics (Firm)
Published: 2005
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9780769783505
Subjects: Drama; Operas
Other titles: Container of (work): Thomas Adès, music for the 21st century.
Description: Chamber opera written by Thomas Adès in 1995 to a joint commission from London's Almeida Opera and the Cheltenham Festival. Based on the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll.
Notes: Chamber opera in 7 acts.

Title from title screen.

16:9 aspect ratio.

Program notes and libretto in English inserted in container.

Set design, Jennifer Lernke [that is, Kernke] ; costume design, Gideon Davey.

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

Originally produced for Channel 4 Television in 1999.

Sung in English.
Table of contents: title: Powder her face (1:50:00); title: Bonus documentary: Thomas Adès, music for the 21st century / produced and directed by Gerald Fox, 1999 (51:00).