Name: Powder Her Face
Start: 2018-02-24T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-03-09T00:00:00.000Z
Location: National Opera House

Organization

Direzione d'orchestra

Timothy Redmond

Regia

Antony McDonald

Scenografia

Costumi

Luci

Fabiana Piccioli

Cantante

Soprano

Mary Plazas

La duchessa

Tenore

Adrian Dwyer

L'Elettricista

Basso

Stephen Richardson

Il direttore dell'hotel

Daire Halpin

La cameriera

Opera Theatre Company

Northern Ireland Opera

Powder Her Face -  (Cipria sul viso)

Tralee

Irlanda

Siamsa Tíre

Dublino

Sligo

Hawk's Well Theatre

Navan

Solstice Arts Centre

Kilkenny

Wexford

National Opera House

Powder Her Face Adès

Public

Private

Cipria sul viso

Approvato

Notorious socialite Margaret Whigham's sensational 1963 divorce from the Duke of Argyll was pure tabloid fodder. Headlines of her extravagances enthralled and titillated a gossip-hungry public in what was perhaps the world's first modern-day sex scandal. 

In this darkly comedic and contemporary opera, Thomas Adès has written a powerful story of an aristocratic woman's fall from grace.  Evoking an earlier nostalgic era of elegance, wit, decadence and jazz, Powder Her Face chronicles the exploits of the cruelly-named "Dirty Duchess" in a roller-coaster ride of celebrity fame to eventual downfall.

The success of this work with audiences worldwide has firmly established Powder Her Face as a classic modern opera. Written by one of today’s most virtuosic composers, this Irish premiere production is directed and designed by‘"One of the wittiest and most visually alert designer-directors around’ - (Opera Now) Antony McDonald  (The Importance of Being Earnest), and with Timothy Redmond conducting, Powder Her Face stars soprano Mary Plazas, as the Duchess, alongside Adrian Dwyer, Stephen Richardson and Irish soprano Daire Halpin.

English

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