Organization

Admin

Singer

Bass-baritone

Michael Ronan

Nick Shadow

Bass

Wonsick Oh

Father Truelove

Tenor

Samuel Kibble

Sellem

Duncan Stenhouse

Keeper of the Madhouse

Stage director

Frederick Wake-Walker

Conductor

Trevor Pinnock

Set designer

Anna Jones

Lighting designer

Charlotte Burton

Video designer

Ergo Phizmiz

Ryan Vaughan Davies

Tom Rakewell

Jacob Phillips

Soprano

Cassandra Wright

Anne Truelove

Mezzo-soprano

Rebecca Hart

Baba the Turk

Contralto

Georgia Mae Ellis

Mother Goose

Royal Academy Opera

English

The Rake's Progress

London

United Kingdom

Susie Sainsbury Theatre

The Rake's Progress Stravinsky

Public

Approved

The Rake’s Progress follows the downfall of Tom Rakewell, who is engaged to his sweetheart, Anne Trulove. The mysterious Nick Shadow arrives to tell of the death and resulting legacy of an unknown uncle, and so begins the progress of the Rake to London. Inspired by William Hogarth’s engravings, Stravinsky and WH Auden (with Chester Kallman) wrote The Rake’s Progress while living as émigrés in the USA. The opera is a critique of the exploding capitalist attitude of the time and a reflection on youth from a composer approaching old age. Full of musical and cultural references, it juxtaposes Baroque and Classical with 20th-century themes.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew