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Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress

Name: Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress
Director: Alfredo Arias
Genre: Music
Released: 1992-01-01
Duration: 148 min
Cast: Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, Samuel Ramey, Victoria Vergara, John Macurdy

1992 2hr : 28m Music

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 paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition. Filmed in Aix-en-Provence, 1992.

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Jerry HadleyTom Rakewell

Dawn UpshawAnn

Samuel RameyNick Shadow

Victoria VergaraBaba the Turk

John MacurdyTrulove

Joan KharaMother Goose

Steven ColeSelem

Kent NaganoConductor

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Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress combines Music elements in one feature.
The principal cast includes Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, Samuel Ramey.

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opera