Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) | The Rake's Progress | Libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman |
Performers
| Vladimir Jurowski | Conductor | |
| Daniel Slater | Director | |
| London Voices | ||
| London Philharmonic Orchestra | ||
| Toby Spence | Tenor | Tom Rakewell |
| Sophia Burgos | Soprano | Anne Trulove |
| Andrew Watts | Countertenor | Baba the Turk |
| Matthew Rose | Bass | Nick Shadow |
| Marie McLaughlin | Soprano | Mother Goose |
| Kim Begley | Tenor | Sellem |
| Clive Bayley | Bass-baritone | Trulove |
For The Rake’s Progress Stravinsky joined forces with WH Auden to create a very modern morality tale from the seedy underbelly of Hogarth’s London. Tom Rakewell is a single man in possession of a good fortune, and we all know how that ends … don’t we? Outrageous, uproarious and laced with pitch-black humour, professional stagings are still relatively rare: so with Vladimir Jurowski conducting an unbeatable cast, this one-off concert performance makes an offer you’d be mad to refuse.
Concert generously supported by Victoria Robey OBE.
