Powder Her Face

Details and credits

Performer credits: Almeida Opera; Thomas Adès

Adès works:
Powder Her Face

Release credits: Adès; Philip Hensher; Jill Gomez; Valdine Anderson; Niall Morris; Roger Bryson; Almeida Ensemble; Thomas Adès

Thomas Adès: composer, conductor

Programme:
Powder Her Face (An Opera In Two Acts, Op. 14)
Act One
1-1. Overture
1-2. Oo Aa! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
1-3. I See. This It What It Has Come To
1-4. Take It From Me
1-5. Interlude
1-6. Of Course She's Done Well
1-7. I Could Never Grow Bored Of Dukedoms
1-8. I Hear Him Coming (Pantomime)
1-9. Interlude
1-10. Fancy, Fancy Being Rich
1-11. Interlude. ...Mm...Ah!...How May I Help You?
1-12. ...Mm...Ah!...Room Service?
1-13. What Have You Got There?
1-14. Come Here
1-15. Interlude
1-16. Is Daddy Squiffy?
1-17. Are You Saying The Duchess Is A Whore?
1-18. Ha Ha Ha Ha... (Paper Chase)
Act Two
2-1. Did She?...Of Course She Did
2-2. Order. Silence
2-3. But Now I Have Heard Something New
2-4. Did You Hear - What He Said?
2-5. So That Is All
2-6. Interlude
2-7. I'd Like To Make One Thing Entirely Clear
2-8. Ah! None Left
2-9. Interlude. Fifty-eight, Seventy-nine
2-10. Agh - Who Are You?
2-11. That Will Do. You May Go
2-12. Broken. It's Broken
2-13. Enough...Or Too Much!

Credited participation:
Composed By, Conductor

Compositions

• Powder Her Face — 1995