Opera director Omer Ben Seadia and music director Christian Reif lead an all-star cast in an exquisite production of Igor Stravinsky’s delightfully clever opera, The Rake’s Progress. The story concerns the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, who deserts his rural country town and girlfriend Anne Trulove for the delights of London. Being seduced by greed and fame under the spell of his devilish companion, Nick Shadow, Tom meets his moral, mental, and physical demise. The closing moral of the tale is: “For idle hearts and hands and minds the Devil finds work to do.”

Sung in English with English supertitles

Program:

Christian Reif, conductor
Omer Ben Seadia, director
Miles Mykkanen, Tom Rakewell
Kearstin Piper Brown, Anne Truelove
John Taylor Ward, Nick Shadow
Sara Couden, Baba the Turk

THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
IGOR STRAVINSKY,music
CHESTER HALLMAN and W. H. AUDEN,text

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