Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
1992
2h 28m
Music
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.
Director
Alfredo Arias
Top 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
