Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
01/01/1992
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.
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Jerry Hadley
as Tom Rakewell
Dawn Upshaw
as Ann
Samuel Ramey
as Nick Shadow
Victoria Vergara
as Baba the Turk
John Macurdy
as Trulove
Joan Khara
as Mother Goose
Steven Cole
as Selem
Kent Nagano
as Conductor
