Event listing: The Rake's Progress | Edinburgh Festival Theatre | Event is in the past

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Edinburgh Festival Theatre Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9FT, United Kingdom

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Programme

Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)

Libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman

Performers

Scottish Opera
Sian Edwards	Conductor
Sir David McVicar	Director
John Macfarlane	Set Designer
Graeme Broadbent	Bass	Trulove
Carolyn Sampson	Soprano	Anne Trulove
Edgaras Montvidas	Tenor	Tom Rakewell
Steven Page	Baritone	Nick Shadow
Leah-Marian Jones	Mezzo-soprano	Baba the Turk
Colin Judson	Tenor	Sellem
Ross McInroy	Bass	Keeper of the madhouse

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Scottish Opera: The Rake's Progress

Alan Coady, 2nd April

Paradox is unsurprising in the works of a composer who said: "The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit." The often distancing neoclassical idiom seemed unable to deny Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951) emotionally engaging and affecting music.

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