Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress

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Overview

The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition. Filmed in Aix-en-Provence, 1992.

Cast: Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, Samuel Ramey, Victoria Vergara, John Macurdy, more

Director: Alfredo Arias

Genres: Music

Cast

Jerry Hadley

Tom Rakewell

Dawn Upshaw

Ann

Samuel Ramey

Nick Shadow

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Victoria Vergara

Baba the Turk

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John Macurdy

Trulove

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Joan Khara

Mother Goose

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Steven Cole

Selem

Kent Nagano

Conductor

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