The Rake's Progress

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The Rake's Progress is a 20th-century opera by Igor Stravinsky, renowned for its neoclassical style and satirical narrative of moral decline.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf opera
stage work
basedOn A Rake’s Progress series
surface form: A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth
catalogueNumber K 19 (Boosey & Hawkes piano-vocal score)
character Father Trulove
Mary Goose
surface form: Mother Goose

Sellem
commissionedBy Venice Biennale
surface form: Biennale di Venezia
composer Igor Stravinsky
conductorAtPremiere Ferdinand Leitner NERFINISHED
dedicatedTo Daphne Stravinsky
directorAtPremiere Carl Ebert
firstUSPerformanceDate 1953-02-14
firstUSPerformancePlace Metropolitan Opera
surface form: Metropolitan Opera, New York
form number opera
genre neoclassical opera
language English
librettist Chester Kallman
W. H. Auden
mainCharacter Anne Trulove
Baba the Turk
Nick Shadow
Tom Rakewell
musicalFeature closed arias
ensembles and choruses
recitatives with harpsichord accompaniment
notableAria Here I Stand
surface form: "Here I stand"

"I go to him"
"No word from Tom"
notableRecording 1953 recording conducted by Igor Stravinsky
numberOfActs 3
orchestration classical-sized orchestra with harpsichord
periodOfComposition 1947–1951
premiereDate 1951-09-11
premierePlace Teatro La Fenice
surface form: Teatro La Fenice, Venice
publisher Boosey & Hawkes
reception considered a key work of 20th-century neoclassical opera
setDesignerAtPremiere Alexandre Benois
surface form: Alexander Benois
setting 18th-century London and its environs
structure three acts and an epilogue
style neoclassicism
subject Faustian bargain
moral decline
satire of 18th-century manners
timePeriod 20th century

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W. H. Auden wroteLibrettoFor The Rake's Progress
Igor Stravinsky notableWork The Rake's Progress
Chester Kallman notableWork The Rake's Progress
this entity surface form: The Rake’s Progress
Chester Kallman wroteLibrettoFor The Rake's Progress
this entity surface form: The Rake’s Progress
Lilli Palmer notableWork The Rake's Progress
The Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth influenced The Rake's Progress
subject surface form: The Rake’s Progress
this entity surface form: The Rake’s Progress (opera)
Sidney Gilliat notableWork The Rake's Progress
this entity surface form: The Rake’s Progress