Organization

Singer

Soprano

Patricia Schuman

Duchess

Bass

Ben Wager

Duke

Tenor

Daniel Norman

Delivery Boy

Amanda Hall

Confidante

Conductor

Gil Rose

Costume designer

Amanda Mujica

Set designer

Nic Muni

Stage director

Hair and Make-up

Rachel Padula Shufelt

Odyssey Opera

English

Powder Her Face

Boston

United States

Powder Her Face Adès

Public

Approved

A video preview of Odyssey Opera's production of Thomas Adès' scandalous opera.
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Video: Kathy Wittman | Ball Square Films

A collaboration between Thomas Adès and librettist Philip Hensher, Powder Her Face uses the salacious, gaudy, larger-than-life tabloid saga of Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, to explore and satirize a web of power, politics, and social mores. In the 1930s, the Duchess was one of the most photographed women in the world and a style icon for millions; by the 1960s she had gained notoriety and the moniker “the Dirty Duchess” through a series of high-profile marriages, divorces, infidelities, sexual escapades, and extravagant living habits. Best known for the explicit Polaroid photographs accompanying her divorce case from the Duke of Argyll, the Duchess captivated the public with her scandalous, flamboyant public persona. But what should we really think of the Duchess and her life and times?

Powder Her Face by Adès, From (2015/2015), Directed by Nic Muni,, Conductor Gil Rose

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