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Too good to be true: A very fine Rakes Progress at the Edinburgh International Festival

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Reviewed at Usher Hall, Edinburgh on 12 August 2015
Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress
Sir Andrew Davis, Conductor
Emily Birsan, Anne Trulove
Susan Bickley, Baba the Turk
Andrew Staples, Tom Rakewell
Gidon Saks, Nick Shadow
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mother Goose
Alan Oke, Sellem
Ashley Riches, Keeper of the madhouse
Peter Rose, Trulove
Timothy Dean, Choirmaster / chorus director
Irish National Opera’s new Rusalka intrigues more than it convinces
***11
Magnifying Glass: a magnificent Les Enfants terribles in Lille
*****
Siegfried at the RBO: Kosky and Pappano surprise and delight
*****
Opera Australia’s Eugene Onegin shines musically
****1
Hedging its bets: La finta giardiniera at the Royal College of Music
***11
Washington National Opera marches onward with a joyous Treemonisha
****1
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