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  1. The Rake’s Progress is postwar Stravinsky, at the fag-end of his three-decade experiment with neoclassicism. The sudden jags of harpsichord, the laconic bassoon lines, the permanently raised...

    • Richard Bratby
  2. Jun 23, 2024 · With its arias recalling not only Mozart but 19 th century bel canto, its episodic style and questionably attractive male characters and its requirement for a large and versatile chorus, The Rake’s Progress is a lot for an opera company to take on, but The Grange Festival has done it proud with Antony McDonald’s direction and design, aided ...

    • Melanie Eskenazi
  3. Mar 4, 2024 · The Rake's Progress at Hackney Empire review: a hectic revival that has ransacked the dressing-up box. Beyond the jumble of ideas, this is a thoughtful production of Stravinski’s opera. Richard...

    • Nick Kimberley
  4. 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.

  5. Jun 24, 2024 · The Rake’s Progress: A handsome new staging that brings out the opera’s pathos. Grange Festival’s revival is clean and classical – but the music doesn’t quite capture the incisiveness...

  6. 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”. Beautifully as Alexandra Oomens sang Anne, from the moment Michael Mofidian came on stage as Nick, there was only going to be one winner.

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  8. Jun 24, 2024 · At the centre is foolish, feckless young Tom Rakewell, given a fresh-faced interpretation by Adam Temple-Smith, his pleasing tenor surmounting all difficulties with confident ease. His delivery of...

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