Powder Her Face - La Monnaie / De Munt

Powder Her Face - La Monnaie / De Munt

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 22, 2015

Runtime

2h 0m

Genres

Music

Original Title

Powder Her Face - La Monnaie / De Munt

Director

Mariusz Treliński

Description

‘You could have a blow job aria – begins with words, ends with humming.’ Using the story of a public scandal, the librettist Philip Hensher inspired the 23-year-old British composer Thomas Adès to portray the fall of the libertine and notorious socialite beauty the Duchess of Argyll, remembered in history as the Dirty Duchess. Powder Her Face is inspired by a sex scandal in 1963 that shocked the British upper class.