Powder Her Face

Album by Thomas Adès & Jill Gomez & Valdine Anderson & Niall Morris & Roger Bryson & Almeida Ensemble

Powder Her Face is a chamber opera by Thomas Adès, premiered in 1995. It is an early work in Adès's career and features compact, dramatic orchestration and vocal writing that mix modernist techniques with cabaret and jazz-influenced elements.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Powder Her Face: Act I: Overture (Orchestra)
    2:58
  2. 2.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 1, Nineteen ninety: Oo aa! ha ha ha ha ha (Maid/Electrician)
    4:12
  3. 3.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 1, Nineteen ninety: I see. This is what it has come to (Duchess/Electrician/Maid)
    2:51
  4. 4.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 1, Nineteen ninety: Take it from me (Duchess/Electrician/Maid)
    5:06
  5. 5.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 1, Nineteen ninety: Interlude (Orchestra)
    1:06
  6. 6.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 2, Nineteen thirty-four: Of course she's done well (Confidante/Lounge Lizard/Duchess)
    2:14
  7. 7.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 2, Nineteen thirty-four: I could never grow bored of dukedoms (Confidante/Lounge Lizard/Duchess)
    1:52
  8. 8.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 2, Nineteen thirty-four: I hear him coming (Pantomime) (Duchess/Confidante/Lounge Lizard/Duke)
    5:07
  9. 9.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 2, Nineteen thirty-four: Interlude (Orchestra)
    2:37
  10. 10.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 3, Nineteen thirty-six: Fancy, fancy being rich (Waitress)
    4:45
  11. 11.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 4, Nineteen fifty-three: ...mm...ah!...How may I help you? (Duchess/Laundryman/Other Guest)
    3:49
  12. 12.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 4, Nineteen fifty-three: ...mm...ah!...Room service?
    3:23
  13. 13.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 4, Nineteen fifty-three: What have you got there?
    3:08
  14. 14.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 4, Nineteen fifty-three: Come here (Duchess/Waiter)
    6:18
  15. 15.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 4, Nineteen fifty-three: Interlude (Orchestra)
    2:04
  16. 16.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 5, Nineteen fifty-three: Is Daddy squiffy?
    5:43
  17. 17.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 5, Nineteen fifty-three: Are you saying the Duchess is a whore?
    4:57
  18. 18.
    Powder Her Face: Act I, Scene 5, Nineteen fifty-three: Ha ha ha ha... (Paper chase) (Mistress/Duke)
    2:17

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 6, Nineteen fifty-five: Did she?...Of course she did (Rubberneckers)
    3:09
  2. 3.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 6, Nineteen fifty-five: Order, Silence
    5:29
  3. 4.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 6, Nineteen fifty-five: But now I have heard something new (Judge)
    3:45
  4. 5.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 6, Nineteen fifty-five: Did you hear - What he said? (Rubberneckers)
    1:44
  5. 6.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 6, Nineteen fifty-five: So that is all (Duchess/Rubberneckers)
    5:09
  6. 7.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 6, Nineteen fifty-five: Interlude (Orchestra)
    1:04
  7. 8.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 7, Nineteen seventy: I'd like to make one thing entirely clear
    3:06
  8. 9.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 7, Nineteen seventy: Ah! None left (Duchess/Society Journalist/Delivery Boy)
    4:11
  9. 10.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 7, Nineteen seventy: Interlude - Fifty-eight, seventy-nine (Duchess)
    1:16
  10. 11.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 8, Nineteen ninety: Agh - Who are you? (Duchess/Hotel Manager)
    6:34
  11. 12.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 8, Nineteen ninety: That will do, you may go (Duchess)
    4:44
  12. 13.
    Powder Her Face: Act II, Scene 8, Nineteen ninety: Broken. It's broken (Duchess/Hotel Manager)
    8:07
  13. 14.
    Powder Her Face: Ghost Epilogue: Enough...Or too much! (Maid/Electrician)
    2:41

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