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Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress

0.0 148 mins Music   1992
Director(s): Alfredo Arias

Release Date: 01 Wed, Jan 1992

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. Filmed in Aix-en-Provence, 1992.

Casts of Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress

Jerry Hadley

as Tom Rakewell

Dawn Upshaw

as Ann

Samuel Ramey

as Nick Shadow

Victoria Vergara

as Baba the Turk

John Macurdy

as Trulove

Joan Khara

as Mother Goose

Steven Cole

as Selem

Kent Nagano

as Conductor

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