The Rake's Progress
Stravinsky's fascination with the 18th century reached its culmination in this brilliant comic fable, based on a series of paintings by Hogarth. Having come into an inheritance, the listless Tom Rakewell leaves home and his fiancee Anne Trulove for London .where the debaucheries of city life, laid out for him by one Nick Shadow , lead only to impoverishment and the madhouse.
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor James Levine Act
7.50 Twenty Minutes: Letters from the New World Passing. Though born in the USA, the novelist Claire Messud has three passports and feels she is only passing as an American with a cobbled-together identity. Is this a problem or a blessing?
8.10 Opera Snaps Rodney Milnes takes a sideways glance at this evening's opera.
8.15 Act 2