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

Organization

Dirigent

Timothy Redmond

Regisseur

Antony McDonald

Set designer

Kostuum ontwerper

Licht ontwerper

Fabiana Piccioli

Zanger

Soprano

Mary Plazas

The Duchess

Tenor

Adrian Dwyer

Electrician

Bass

Stephen Richardson

Hotel Manager

Daire Halpin

Maid

Opera Theatre Company

Northern Ireland Opera

Powder Her Face

Tralee

Ierland

Siamsa Tíre

Dublin

Sligo

Hawk's Well Theatre

Navan

Solstice Arts Centre

Kilkenny

Wexford

National Opera House

Powder Her Face Adès

Public

Private

Approved

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

Voorstellingscredits (Cast & Productieteam )

Cast

Productieteam

Co-producent