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Musical strengths, visual confusion & two Rakes: English Touring Opera's new production of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress
[…] Much is often made of the self-consciously classical structure that Stravinsky used for the opera, but ETO's programme book quotes conductor Mark Wigglesworth as saying "it isn't neo-anything: it's pure Stravinsky, and Russian Stravinsky, the same person who wrote The Rite of Spring". I have to confess that rather too often the opera's 18th-century setting and this idea of a neo-classical work, perhaps even a pastiche, seem something of a straight-jacket for productions. Glyndebourne's iconic Hockney-designed version is wonderful but is only one approach.Stravinsky: The Rake's Progess - Act One, scene oneFrederick Jones, Nazan Fikret, David Horton, Jerome Knox, Trevor Elliott Bowes - English Touring Opera (Photo: Richard Hubert Smith)Director Polly Graham (artistic director of Longborough Festival) and designer April Dalton deliberately approach the work from a different direction, which seems to have arisen from a close reading of Auden and Kallman's text. The opening scene was a May Day […]
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2023-08-11 09:55:33
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2023-08-08 04:00:17
David Hockney’s designs are matched by memorable music. Plus: Stravinsky, Mozart and Walton at the BBC Proms
2023-06-05 20:35:53
* Notes * Richard Strauss' Die Frau Ohne Schatten (Act I Scene 2 pictured, photograph by Cory Weaver) returned to San Francisco Opera after an absence of 34 years. The vibrant production by artist David Hockney premiered at Covent Garden...