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Igor Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress

I, 1: Prelude

I, 1: "The woods are green"

I, 1: "Anne, my dear – Yes, Father"

I, 1: "Tom Rakewell?"

I, 1: "Dear Father Trulove"

I, 2: "With air commanding"

I, 2: "Come, Tom"

I, 2: "Love, too frequently betrayed"

I, 3: "No word from Tom - Has love no voice?"

I, 3: "Quietly, night"

I, 3: "My father! Can I desert him"

II, 1: "Vary the song, O London, change"

II, 1: "Nature, green unnatural mother"

II, 1: "Always, the quarry that I stalk"

II, 1: "Master, are you alone?"

II, 1: "In youth the panting slaves"

II, 1: "My tale shall be told"

II, 2: Prelude

II, 2: "How strange! Although the heart…"

II, 2: "Anne! Here!'

II, 2: "My Love, am I to remain in here for ever?"

II, 2: "Could it then have been known"

II, 2: "I have not run away, dear heart'

II, 3: "As I was saying"

II, 3: "Scorned! Abused"

II, 3: "My heart is cold"

II, 3: "Thanks to this excellent device"

III, 1: "Ladies, both fair and gracious"

III, 1: "Who hears me, knows me"

III, 1: "Sold! Annoyed!"

III, 1: "You love him, seek to set him right"

III, 1: "I go to him"

III, 2: Prelude

III, 2: "How dark and dreadful this place is"

III, 2: "Very well"

III, 2: "Well then – My heart is wild"

III, 2: "I burn, I burn! I freeze!"

III, 2: "With roses crowned"

III, 3: "Prepare yourselves, heroic shades"

III, 3: "There he is"

III, 3: "I have waited for thee so long"

III, 3: "In a foolish dream"

III, 3: "I am exceedingly weary"

III, 3: "Gently, little boat"

III, 3: "Anne, my dear"

III, 3: "Where art thou, Venus?"

III, 3: "Mourn for Adonis"

Epilogue: "Good People, just a moment"

Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress

John Cox (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Miah Persson (Anne Trulove), Topi Lehtipuu (Tom Rakewell), Clive Bayley (Father Trulove)...

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Cast

John Cox — Stage director

David Hockney — Set and costume design

Robert Bryan — Lighting

Miah Persson — Anne Trulove

Topi Lehtipuu — Tom Rakewell

Clive Bayley — Father Trulove

Matthew Rose — Nick Shadow

Program notes

The devil is hard at work in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress! The three-act opera was premiered at Venice’s La Fenice in 1951 and is whimsically staged and performed in this production from the 2010 Glyndebourne opera festival.

In composing The Rake’s Progress, Stravinsky hoped to combine the spirit of Cosi fan Tutte with the sum of his neoclassical experiences, drawing particular inspiration from Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. While that might seem like a strange laundry list of composers, Stravinsky’s opera avoids becoming a mere pastiche of disparate styles, and in contrast to the corrosively ironic engravings by Hogarth that inspired its story, the work overflows with lyricism and emotion.

Hogarth’s engravings were visually integrated into David Hockney’s famous Glyndebourne staging in the 1970s, a staging that was in this 2010 production. A design “still marvellously fresh”, The Guardian described how, “Hockney's designs mediate between the 18th century and the 20th, just as the score self-consciously shuttles between Mozartian models and modernism.” With “exceptionally strong” music-making of singers, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and conductor Vladimir Jurowski, this benchmark production of Stravinsky’s enigmatic opera is sure to fascinate its audiences.

Photo: © Alastair Muir

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