Name: The Rake's Progress
Start: 2010-08-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2010-08-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera House

Organization

Bass

Clive Bayley

Vater Truelove

Sopran

Miah Persson

Anne Truelove

Tenor

Topi Lehtipuu

Tom Rakewell

Bass-Bariton

Matthew Rose

Nick Shadow

Susan Gorton

Mutter Goose

Mezzosopran

Elena Manistina

Türkenbaba

Graham Clark

Sellem

Dirigat

Vladimir Jurowski

Regie

John Cox

Bühnenbild

David Hockney

Duncan Rock

Wärter des Irrenhauses

Others

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Glyndebourne

Englisch

The Rake's Progress -  (Die Karriere des Wüstlings)

Vereinigtes Königreich

Opera House

Ebert Room

The Rake's Progress by I,Stravinsky, from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 2010. Directed by John Cox, conductor Vladimir Jurowski, starring Matthew Rose, Miah Persson and Topi Lehtipuu. Performed in English and subtitled in English.

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The devil is hard at work in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress! The three-act opera was premiered at Venice’s La Fenice in 1951 and is whimsically staged and performed in this production from the 2010 Glyndebourne opera festival.

In composing The Rake’s Progress, Stravinsky hoped to combine the spirit of Cosi fan Tutte with the sum of his neoclassical experiences, drawing particular inspiration from Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. While that might seem like a strange laundry list of composers, Stravinsky’s opera avoids becoming a mere pastiche of disparate styles, and in contrast to the corrosively ironic engravings by Hogarth that inspired its story, the work overflows with lyricism and emotion.

Hogarth’s engravings were visually integrated into David Hockney’s famous Glyndebourne staging in the 1970s, a staging that was in this 2010 production. A design “still marvellously fresh”, The Guardian described how, “Hockney's designs mediate between the 18th century and the 20th, just as the score self-consciously shuttles between Mozartian models and modernism.” With “exceptionally strong” music-making of singers, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and conductor Vladimir Jurowski, this benchmark production of Stravinsky’s enigmatic opera is sure to fascinate its audiences.

Comedy and tragedy are never far apart in this Glyndebourne classic, designed by David Hockney.

Isolated pockets of laughter from the audience give the ensemble a boost – not that they need it. Lehtipuu & Co. make every last scene in the story of Tom Rakewell's demise thoroughly convincing. The sometimes grotesquely exaggerated costumes achieve the desired effect. A compelling staging of Stravinsky's wonderfully comic opera about opera that isn't afraid of getting sentimental.

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