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Title:

Powder her face [videorecording] / an LWT Production for Channel Four in association with RM Associates ; composer, Thomas Adès ; libretto, Philip Hensher ; directed for television and film by Margaret Williams.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

Digital Classics DVD ;

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

1 videodisc (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

Operas.
Adès, Thomas.
Documentary films.
Television musicals.

Other Authors:

Hensher, Philip. lbt
Plazas, Mary, 1966- prf
Buck, Heather. prf
Norman, Daniel, 1970- prf
Broadbent, Graeme, 1962- prf
Alden, David.
Kernke, Jennifer.
Davey, Gideon.
Fox, Gerald.
Adès, Thomas. Powder her face.
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. prf
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Digital Classics (Firm)

Notes:

Mary Plazas (Duchess) ; Heather Buck (Maid) ; Daniel Norman (Electrician) ; Graeme Broadbent (Hotel manager) ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group ; Thomas Adès, conductor. Chamber opera in 7 acts. Originally produced for Channel 4 Television in 1999. Bonus documentary: Thomas Adès : music for the 21st century / produced and directed by Gerald Fox, 1999 (51 min.).

Summary:

Chamber opera written by Thomas Adès in 1995 to a joint commission from London's Almeida Opera and the Cheltenham Festival. Based on the life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll.

ISBN:

9780769783505
0769783503

OCLC:

(OCoLC)71292979

UPC:

032031800496

EAN:

5051083000666

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)