With his brash and brilliant 1995 chamber opera “Powder Her Face,” the 24-year-old British composer Thomas Adès confirmed the arrival of a formidable talent, whose fearlessness and technical panache ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Let's get straight to the fellatio, shall we. The blow job - and its Polaroid rendition - that led to the 1960s divorce trial of the dissolute Duchess of Argyll forms the centrepiece aria (an aria ...

With the opening of its 2016 summer season, West Edge Opera once again earned its name. From the forest of Janácek’s “The Cunning Little Vixen” to the sexual escapades of the British aristocracy in ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Thomas Adès conducts the Metropolitan Opera premiere of The Exterminating Angel ...

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 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 ...