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09/05/2015

Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Live from the Met, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress

Live from the Met in New York, Stravinsky's neo-classical opera The Rake's Progress.

Live from the Met in New York, a performance of Stravinsky's neo-classical masterpiece The Rake's Progress, starring Paul Appleby as Tom Rakewell. James Levine conducts.

Live from the Met in New York, Stravinsky's neo-classical masterpiece The Rake's Progress, a tale with a moral representing the fall of Tom Rakewell, a rake, inspired by scenes of moral decay in 18th-Century London by painter William Hogarth. The libretto is by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. Paul Appleby sings the title role, Layla Claire is Anne Trulove, his betrothed, and Nick Shadow, in effect the Devil, is sung by Gerald Finley. Maestro James Levine conducts the opera chorus and the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House. Mary Jo Heath presents.

Tom Rakewell.....Paul Appleby (Tenor)
Anne Trulove.....Layla Claire (Soprano)
Nick Shadow.....Gerald Finley (Bass)
Baba the Turk.....Stephanie Blythe (Mezzo-soprano)
Father Trulove.....Brindley Sherratt (Bass)
Sellem.....Tony Stevenson (Tenor)
Mother Goose.....Margaret Lattimore (Mezzo-soprano)
Keeper of the Madhouse.....Paul Corona (Bass)

New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
James Levine (Conductor).

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