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Live from the Met: The Rake's Progress
From the Metropolitan Opera I House, New York.
Stravinsky's only full-scale opera, based on Hogarth and with a libretto by WH Auden , is one of the 20th century's indisputable operatic masterpieces.
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine
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Contributors

Unknown:
Wh Auden
Conductor:
James Levine
Anne Trulove:
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
Mother Goose:
Jane Shaulis (mezzo)
Baba the Turk:
Stephanie Blythe (mezzo)
Tom Rakewell:
Jerry Hadley (tenor)
Nick Shadow:
Samuel Ramey (bass)
Trulove:
David Pittsinger (bass)
Sellem:
Jerold Siena (tenor)
Keeper of the madhouse:
Leroy Lehr (bass)
Man at auction:
Barry Brandes (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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