Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) The Rake's Progress

Item

Title

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
The Rake's Progress

Description

Opera in Three Acts

Music by Igor Stravinsky
Libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman

Creator

The Santa Fe Opera

Date

July 13, 17, 26, August 1, 8, 14, 1996

Contributor

Cast (in order of appearance):
Anne Trulove- Sylvia McNair
Tom Rakewell- Richard Croft
Trulove- Dale Travis
Nick Shadow- Richard Cowan
Mother Goose- Josepha Gayer
Baba the Turk- Judith Christin
Sellem- Anthony Laciura
Keeper of the Madhouse- John Marcus Bindel

Santa Fe Opera
Kenneth Montgomery, conductor
James Robinson, director
Bruno Schwengl, scenic and costume design
Christopher Akerlind, lighting design
Kimberly Mackin, choreographer
Gary Wedow, chorus master

Type

Opera

Newspaper article review

Relation

"'Rake's Progress' at SFO provides mixed pleasures"
by Joanne Hoover

Albuquerque Journal
July 15, 1996
"Twentieth-century opera meets the past"
by Candace Magner

Los Alamos Monitor
"Tragedy and Deadly Sins Under a Wet Desert Sky"
by Allan Kozinn

The New York Times
August 5, 1996
"Santa Fe journal: Of rakes and rainstorms"
by Theodore P. Mahne
"Rake's Flashy Regress & Cozy Chamber Opening"
by John Stege

Santa Fe Reporter
July 17-23, 1996
"Santa. Fe Opera takes libertines to heart"
by Olin Chism

The Dallas Morning News
August 5, 1996
"'Rake's pretty, but soulless"
by Marc Shulgold

Rocky Mountain News
August 1996
"Opera's 'Rake's Progress' an exercise in contrast"
by Craig Smith

The New Mexican
July 16, 1996
"Stirring up a desert storm"
by Hugh Canning

The Sunday Times
August 11, 1996
"Rich Roles Bring Divas to the Desert"
by Heidi Waleson

The Wall Street Journal
August 15, 1 996

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