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United Kingdom
 Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 7.30pm 
Powder Her Face
English National Opera
London Coliseum
United Kingdom

Conductor: Timothy Redmond
Director: Joe Hill-Gibbins
Designer: Ultz
Lighting Designer: Adam Silverman
Movement Director: Imogen Knight
Librettist: Philip Hensher
Duchess: Amanda Roocroft
Maid: Clare Eggington
Hotel Manager: Alan Ewing
Electrician: Alexander Sprague


Powder Her Face charts the glamorous rise and seedy fall of the notorious socialite beauty Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. A former deb of the year, the ‘Dirty Duchess’ was at the centre of a scandalous divorce case in 1963, the year of the Profumo Affair, when the Establishment was caught with its pin-striped trousers round its ankles. Drawing on episodes from the Duchess’s colourful life, not least her sexually voracious appetite, a mythical portrayal of this elegant yet ultimately tragic figure emerges

Powder Her Face launched Adès’s international career in 1995 and remains one of his most performed works. His dazzlingly precocious score is as witty, poignant and memorable as the Duchess herself, paying homage to the popular idioms of cabaret and tango, as well as to Weill, Berg and Stravinsky.

Making his opera directing debut is Joe Hill-Gibbins, one of the most exciting talents in British theatre, in a new site-specific production created within Ambika P3, London’s newest performing environment. Productions at the Royal Court (The Village Bike) and Young Vic (The Glass Menagerie) have earned Hill-Gibbins a loyal following and his recent National Theatre staging of Marlowe’s Edward II has only served to confirm his reputation. Returning to ENO after triumphs in Janácek, Britten and Strauss is Olivier Award-winning soprano Amanda Roocroft as the infamous Duchess.

Performances until April 19th.


Thomas Ades : Powder Her Face

3 Mar



Scotland
 Thursday, April 3, 2014 at 7.30pm 
Scottish Chamber Orchestra plays Silvestrov
Queens Hall
Edinburgh
Scotland
0131 668 2019
http://www.thequeenshall.net

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

A tale of two wives lies behind this grand programme. Mozart’s future wife, Constanze Weber was the intended soloist for the ravishing soprano writing in the Et Incarnatus Est of his mass – an utterly sublime and arresting moment of pure love in music. Silvestrov’s The Messenger harks back to Mozart in a touching memorial for his own wife who died suddenly in her 40s.

The symphony between them needs no introduction: one of Mozart’s most famous and dramatic statements.


Valentin Silvestrov : The Messenger
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony No 40
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Mass in C minor

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United Kingdom
 Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 16.00 hrs 
Junior Guildhall Wind Orchestra and Chamber Choir
Milton Court - Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Milton Court, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, EC2Y 9BH
United Kingdom
020 7638 8891
http://www.gsmd.ac.uk/miltoncourt

Tickets: tbc
Junior Guildhall Wind Orchestra and Chamber Choir under Matthew Down

A concert featuring the 'world music' inspired piece........
Postcards, Play-Sing-Dance


Jeffery Wilson : Postcards (Play-Sing-Dance)

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