(AP) Thomas Ades wanted to be provocative in his first opera, Powder Her Face, when he composed a scene in which he musically depicts a sex act between the Duchess of Argyll and a waiter. Not enough ...

London is well served for studio-sized contemporary opera at the moment, with Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers playing at the Young Vic and Thomas Adès’ early opus Powder Her Face now in the Linbury ...

Following its world premiere at the Cheltenham Festival in 1995, the chamber opera Powder Her Face has gone on to thrill audiences around the world, becoming one of the most frequently performed works ...

Onstage and off, the pleasures of sex have always played a major role in opera. While the lurid love lives of superstar divas kept the gossips busy, the even more lurid lives of the characters they ...

There is a scene in Carlos Wagner’s daring production, here receiving its first revival, that scales the heights of stylish symbolism. The humiliation of the Duchess (Joan Rodgers) is made flesh as ...

There is much to say about Thomas Ades, the brilliant British composer who is spending some time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. But it sometimes seems that there has been too much said about this ...