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THE RAKE'S PROGRESS

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Opera in three acts
A fable by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Music by STRAVINSKY
ON GRAMOPHONE RECORDS
Servants, whores, and roaring boys citizens, madmen r Chorus o' the Metropolitan Opera Association
Orchestra of the New York
Metropolitan Opera Association Conducted by IGOR STRAVINSKY
The action takes place in eighteenth-century England
Continued in next column
Act I
Scene I: The garden of Trulove's house in the country: spring afternoon
Scene 2: Mother Goose's brothel
London: summer
Scene 3: The same at Scene 1: autumn night, full moon

Contributors

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W. H. Auden
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Chester Kallman
Conducted By:
Igor Stravinsky

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