The Rake’s Progress
The Rake’s Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto is by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman.
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The original text
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.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
2011: Presented by Cape Town Opera (30 August – 3 September)
Sources
Wayne Muller. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.
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