The sensibility, ethereality, and cunningness of “The Rake’s Progress” are even more pronounced in the revival of Olivier Py ...

Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress with Edgaras Montvidas as Tom. Siân Edwards conducts.

Stravinsky's masterwork The Rake's Progress, created for La Fenice in Venice in 1951, is based on a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, inspired by a series of 18th century prints by ...

Back in 1951, penning Stravinsky’s text, WH Auden predicted a hellish reality of alternative facts. The Rake’s Progress has something few operas today can boast — a superlative libretto.

Persephone and The Rake’s Progress. In exile in Switzerland during the war years Stravinsky produced some of his most overtly Russian works, Renard and Les Noces among them, drawing ...

The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight ...