Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
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1992 · 148 min · Music
Overview
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.
Directed by Alfredo Arias
Cast
- Jerry Hadley — Tom Rakewell
- Dawn Upshaw — Ann
- Samuel Ramey — Nick Shadow
- Victoria Vergara — Baba the Turk
- John Macurdy — Trulove