N.Y. stages: 'Powder Her Face,' '70s Disco' and 'Ragtime'
Powder Her Face. Tonight through Feb. 23. BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn Move over, Don Giovanni. This audacious 1995 work by composer Thomas Adès and librettist Philip Hensher puts the focus on Margaret Campbell (aka the Dirty Duchess) and a voracious sexual appetite that led to extramarital affairs and a scandalous divorce.