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The Rake's Progress

Name: The Rake's Progress
Start: 2024-11-24T15:00:00
Location: University of Memphis

Opera Memphis

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The Devil finds work for the idlest of hands in Igor Stravinsky's neoclassical opera "The Rake's Progress." This 1951 masterpiece uses the glorious words of British-American poet W. H. Auden to tell the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who inherits a fortune and abandons his hometown sweetheart, Anne Trulove, for the big-city pleasures of life in London. Obsessed with the idea that he is destined for greatness and cheered on by his diabolical c...

Program

Igor Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress

Composer

Participants

Stephen Karr

Conductor

Philip Himebook

Tom Rakewell

Matthew Burns

Father Trulove

Paulina Villarreal

Mother Goose