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Jun 24, 2024 · You can view The Rake’s Progress as the struggle for Tom’s soul between Anne and the Devil, who arrives on the scene taking the name “Nick Shadow”.
Jun 23, 2024 · “Can a composer reuse the past and at the same time move in a forward direction?” Stravinsky gives his definite answer to his question with The Rake’s Progress, and this production succeeds in reminding us of its central place in the repertoire. • Details of upcoming performances can be found here.
- Melanie Eskenazi
Jun 24, 2024 · Any new designer of Stravinsky’s opera must tussle with the legacy of David Hockney’s hugely influential designs for Glyndebourne in 1975, still being used onstage and reproduced on a thousand ...
3 days ago · The first painting in the series The Rake's Progress, upon which Stravinsky based his opera of the same name. As Stravinsky became more familiar with English, he developed the idea to write an English-language opera based on a series of paintings by 18th-century artist William Hogarth titled The Rake's Progress.
Jun 13, 2024 · From 1948 to 1951 Stravinsky worked on his only full-length opera, The Rake’s Progress, a Neoclassical work (with a libretto by W.H. Auden and the American writer Chester Kallman) based on a series of moralistic engravings by the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth.
- Igor Stravinsky was a Russian-born composer whose work revolutionized musical thought and sensibility in the 20th century. His fame rests on a few...
- Igor Stravinsky’s collaborations with Serge Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes, including The Firebird (1910), made him known overnight. Other composi...
- Igor Stravinsky’s father, Fyodor, was one of the leading Russian operatic basses of his day, and Igor’s mother, Anna, was a talented pianist. Igor...
- Igor Stravinsky studied law and philosophy at St. Petersburg University, from which he graduated in 1905. While studying, he showed some of his mus...
- Igor Stravinsky was always in mediocre health—he suffered from tuberculosis in the 1930s and a stroke in 1956—but he continued full-scale creative...
Jun 25, 2024 · Moral directness. engagingly youthful - opera review: Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at The Grange Festival, Adam Temple-Smith, Michael Mofidian
6 days ago · Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of John Cox’s staging of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. The production originated at Glyndebourne in 1975 but - thanks to David Hockney’s witty designs, referencing the18th century while remaining indubitably modern - it has been seen all over the world, making it the most successful interpretation of the composer’s only full-length opera ...
