SEX RULES THE OPERA STAGE
The Raw English Hit ‘Powder Her Face’ in Oakland By Paul Hertelendy artssf.com, the independent observer of San Francisco Bay Area music and dance Week of Jan. 6-13, 2016 Vol. 18, No. 11 OAKLAND—Thomas Adès’ opera “Powder Her Face” is a devastating social critique condemning women’s inequality as well as the excesses of the Idle Rich, based on fact. Or, it’s a two-hour exercise in audience titillation showing various freelance sexual practices, some of them more natural than others. Take…