BRAINERD — The cast, orchestra and crew went through a dress rehearsal of Igor Stravinsky's 1951 opera "The Rake's Progress" on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, as part of the Lakes Area Music Festival at the ...

English Touring Opera (ETO) presents new productions of Puccini's Manon Lescaut and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress for its Spring 2024 tour. The season explores the temptations and pitfalls of the ...

In doing The Rake’s Progress of Igor Stravinsky, the New York City Opera tried its hand at a classic of musical modernism. Despite an unsuitable set design and a less than stellar musical execution, ...

The Rake's Progress comes to Den Norske Opera in September. Performances run 21 September - 14 October. A machine that turns stones into bread, a bearded lady, a mental hospital – and love: Journey ...

Lepage transplants Auden's Hogarthian tale not unwisely to the 1950s world of "the American dream", to the oil fields of the Midwest and the Hollywood temptations of the West Coast. However, the ...

Kellan Dunlap as Sellem, left, and Aleksey Bogdanov as Nick Shadow with members of the ensemble in the 2025 Glimmerglass Festival production of “The Rake’s Progress.” Adrian Kramer as Tom Rakewell, ...

Any new designer of Stravinsky’s opera must tussle with the legacy of David Hockney’s hugely influential designs for Glyndebourne in 1975, still being used onstage and reproduced on a thousand posters ...

Choral excellence in the tricky but rewarding set-pieces of brothel, auction and Bedlam scene tends to be a given with the promising ensemble at Glyndebourne (more stars are waiting to be born in this ...

I came away from the first night of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress not quite knowing what to think, and it was interesting to see that other reviewers disagreed markedly with one another in their ...

James Levine revisits one of his favorite 20th-century classics: Stravinsky’s only full-length opera, with its wondrous neo-classical score, back on the Met stage for the first time in 12 years. Paul ...

A member of the stage crew was doing some last-minute cleanup of the set at the Shubert, in preparation for a rehearsal of Yale Opera’s The Rake’s Progress, the opera by Igor Stravinsky set to run at ...

Following his last visit with Lorin Maazel’s less-than-successful adaptation of 1984, Canadian director Robert Lepage returns to the Royal Opera House with a radical re-thinking of Stravinsky’s The ...