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Composer:
Thomas Ades

Artist(s):
Mary Plazas
Heather Buck

Conductor:
Thomas Ades

Background: Written by Thomas Adès in 1995, at the age of 24, Powder Her Face is based on the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, a woman brazenly avaricious for money and sexual experience but whose story, remarks Adès, shows that 'even horrible people are tragic'.

Set in the early 1990s, the aged and isolated duchess is seen living at London's Dorchester Hotel, oblivious to her now strained financial circumstances and her imminent eviction. A series of flashbacks to her colourful past in the '30s, '50s and '60s, are enacted by three hotel workers who, in the present, treat her with barely-concealed derision.

CATALOGUE NR: DVDDC10002
RECORD LABEL: Digital Classics
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: £ 17.99 including VAT, or £ 15.31 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Thomas Ades
TITLE: Powder her Face - complete
CONDUCTOR: Thomas Ades
ARTISTS: Mary Plazas   Heather Buck   Graeme Broadbent   Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: PAL

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