Powder Her Face at Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Moniuszko Auditorium

Dates: (10/13/2015 - 10/15/2015 )

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Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Moniuszko Auditorium

Plac Teatralny 1
Warszawa,Warszawa 00-950

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Phone: +48 22 826 50 19

Tickets: PLN 80.00 - PLN 240.00

Running Time: 3 h 30 min

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Powder Her Face, an ‘opera-portrait’ written in 1995 by the then 24-year-old Thomas Adès, is an abbreviated and only slightly masked in the libretto operatic biography of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, the British ‘Don Juan in a skirt’.

In real life this natural born scandalizer wanted for nothing, except true love. She led a truly colourful life: two notorious marriages, wallowing in unimaginable luxury among other glitterati, eighty eight sexual partners ‘identified by court’ during her divorce proceedings and finally — the loss of remnants of her estate and a lonely death in penury.

Mariusz Treli?ski’s staging is arranged with great taste into an effervescent cornucopia against the background of which there looms from time to time a very delicately sketched silhouette of Thanatos. The show finale deviates slightly from the libretto and the Duchess of Argyll’s biography — the director’s vision is concluded by an insightfully staged tango-like epilogue, which the composer liked a great deal while viewing the Warsaw premiere.
Ages: For adults only

Cast and Creative team for Powder Her Face at Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Moniuszko Auditorium

Allison Cook
Duchess

Kerstin Avemo
Maid

Leonardo Capalbo
Electrician

Peter Coleman-Wright
Hotel Manager

Alejo Pérez Conductor

Mariusz Treli?ski Director

Boris Kudli?ka Set designer

Marek Adamski Costume designer

Tomasz Wygoda Choreography / staging

Felice Ross Lighting designer

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