Organization

Video designer

Florent Fouquet

Lighting designer

Lionel Spycher

Singer

Tenor

Christopher Lemmings

Sellem

Bass-baritone

Thomas Tatzl

Nick Shadow

Conductor

Grant Llewellyn

Rémi Durupt

Costume designer

Chantal de la Coste

Set designer

Stage director

Mathieu Bauer

Julien Behr

Tom Rakewell

Soprano

Elsa Benoit

Anne Truelove

Mezzo-soprano

Aurore Ugolin

Baba the Turk

Bass

Scott Wilde

Father Truelove

Jean-Jacques L'Anthoën

Keeper of the Madhouse

Contralto

Alissa Anderson

Mother Goose

Opéra de Rennes

Angers Nantes Opéra

Orchestra

Orchestre National de Bretagne

Orchestre Symphonique de Bretagne

Others

Chœur de Chambre Mélisme

English

The Rake's Progress

Nantes

France

Théâtre Graslin

Rennes

The Rake's Progress Stravinsky

Private

Public

French

Approved

The very first episode of our web-series 🎬 dedicated to Stravinsky's opera, The Rake's Progress, takes you to the heart of the creation of the decor. Antoine and Yesdi have slipped behind the scenes of our workshop (Plaine de Baud) and offer you a unique visit here, from construction to setting up the decor 👀. At the height of his art, Stravinsky reconciles with The Rake's Progress [La Carrière du libertin] tradition and modernity. Tradition in form and in neoclassical writing reminiscent of Mozart's greatest operas; modernity in this ability to reinvent the lyrical model, give it a new, dazzling youthfulness and approach the consumer society with distance and derision. Information and reservations:https://www.opera-rennes.fr/fr/evenem...

Thursday March 3, 2022 at 8 p.m. Saturday March 5, 2022 at 6 p.m. Monday March 7, 2022 at 8 p.m. Wednesday March 9, 2022 at 8 p.m. Grant Llewellyn: musical direction (Rémi Durupt on March 7) Mathieu Bauer: Director Rémi Durupt: Assistant musical director Grégory Voillemet: Assistant director Chantal de la Coste: Sets Florent Fouquet: Videographer Lionel Spycher: Lights Set design: Rennes Opera workshop With: Scott Wilde: Trulove Elsa Benoit: Anne Trulove Julien Behr: Tom Rakewell Thomas Tatzl: Nick Shadow Alissa Anderson: Mother Goose Aurore Ugolin: Baba la Turque Christopher Lemmings: Sellem Orchester National de Bretagne, conductor Grant Llewellyn Chamber Choir Melism(s), conductor Gildas Pungier COPRODUCTION Opéra de Rennes - Angers Nantes Opéra.

Opera in three acts by Igor Stravinsky

Libretto by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman

Inspired by the eight paintings of William Hogarth

1951

At the height of his art and settled in Hollywood, Stravinsky composed  The Rake's Progress  ( La Carrière du Libertin ) from paintings by William Hogarth from 1948. Given its world premiere at La Fenice in Venice in 1951, this score created the event and will be repeated the following years all over the world.

 

It must be said that the work, unclassifiable, seems to us almost a century later still just as fascinating: it marries the classic form of an era in which we no longer completely believe, it depicts characters whose cracks touch and marry the issues of our society, it takes on the accents of irresistible musical comedy in certain numbers, it bursts with audacity by reinventing the lyrical model... In short, it reconciles tradition and modernity like no other.


The director Mathieu Bauer, director of the CDN de Montreuil from 2011 to 2021, signs here his first opera and situates this plot in the carelessness of the 1950s, jubilantly characterizing each of the characters: Tom Rakewell, anti-hero who squanders an unexpected legacy in gambling and brothels; Anne Trulove who is looking for true love; Nick Shadow, the Tempting Devil; Turkish Baba, the bearded lady… To sublimate this art of contrasts, Grant Llewellyn conducts his Orchester National de Bretagne and the chamber choir Mélisme(s), as well as a cast of soloists who are all Mozartians at heart.

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