They also discuss the impact of the immense acclaim that followed the success of his first opera, Powder Her Face, and the the significant influence of another composer upon Adès - the Hungarian ...
Thomas Adès thinks big. Devotees of the composer, conductor, and pianist can hardly complain about his busy public profile. Still, for fans of his large-scale works, hell is the relative rarity of ...
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, ...