Press notes might insist that the venue (used here for opera for the first time) is “intimate”, but I can’t work out whether it’s the exposed pipe-work or the towering, tiered rows of seating that is ...
"Powder Her Face," the daring operatic bombshell first thrown at the British class system by composer Thomas Ades and librettist Philip Hensher in 1995, finally got its West Coast-staged premiere at ...
They also discuss the impact of the immense acclaim that followed the success of his first opera, Powder Her Face, and the the significant influence of another composer upon Adès - the Hungarian ...