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Impressive Rake’s Progress from British Youth Opera

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“The cast is led by Frederick Jones as Tom, whose clarion tenor scythed through his notes”
Reviewed at Sadler's Wells: Peacock Theatre, London on 4 September 2018
Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress
British Youth Opera
Lionel Friend, Conductor
Stephen Unwin, Director
James Cotterill, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Frederick Jones, Tom Rakewell
Sam Carl, Nick Shadow
Samantha Clarke, Anne Trulove
Jessica Ouston, Baba the Turk
Emma Lewis, Mother Goose
Iain Henderson, Sellem
Thomas Mole, Keeper of the madhouse
Pedro Ometto, Trulove
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