Powder Her Face - 1998

Relevant Tracks

• ACT I
  Jill Gomez, Niall Morris, Thomas Adès & Valdine Anderson

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

• Act II
  Jill Gomez, Niall Morris, Thomas Adès & Valdine Anderson

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

Works in this album

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Powder Her Face

Artists

Thomas Adès - Composer
Jill Gomez - Performer
Valdine Anderson - Performer
Niall Morris - Performer
Almeida Ensemble - Performer
Roger Bryson - Performer

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