Press notes might insist that the venue (used here for opera for the first time) is “intimate”, but I can’t work out whether it’s the exposed pipe-work or the towering, tiered rows of seating that is ...

"Powder Her Face," the daring operatic bombshell first thrown at the British class system by composer Thomas Ades and librettist Philip Hensher in 1995, finally got its West Coast-staged premiere at ...