Tuesday, Jul 29, 2025 at 1:00pm
The Glimmerglass Festival’s exhilarating 50th anniversary season centers artists and creators, celebrates opera and musical theater legends, and introduces a thrilling world premiere opera based on a beloved book.
Mainstage productions will include Tosca (Puccini/Illica & Giacosa), Sunday in The Park With George (Sondheim/Sondheim & Lapine), The Rake’s Progress (Stravinsky/Auden & Kallman), the World Premiere of The House on Mango Street (Bermel/Cisneros), based on the classic book. The Festival is also proud to bring former Artistic Director Francesca Zambello’s acclaimed original production of Odyssey (Moore/Rourke) to the Alice Busch Opera Theater for the first time.
Schedule
July 29, 2025
The Rake's Progress
1:00pm
Music by Igor Stravinsky/Libretto by W.H. Auden & Chester Kallman
A debonair stranger, Nick Shadow, appears to Tom Rakewell and tempts him with the chance to reimagine his future. As Nick conjures a series of enticing adventures for Tom, Anne Trulove fights for Tom’s salvation. Written in Stravinsky’s neoclassical period, Stravinsky’s only full-length opera score sparkles with elegant vocal writing and lively dance rhythms.
Conductor | Joseph Colaneri
Director/Choreographer | Eric Sean Fogel
Set Designer | John Conklin
Costume Designer | Lynly Saunders
Lighting Designer | Robert Wierzel
Hair & Make-up | Tom Watson
Generously Sponsored by | Elizabeth M. and Jean-Marie R. Eveillard
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