Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A machine that turns stones into bread, a bearded lady, a mental hospital – ...

Kellan Dunlap as Sellem, left, and Aleksey Bogdanov as Nick Shadow with members of the ensemble in the 2025 Glimmerglass Festival production of “The Rake’s Progress.” Adrian Kramer as Tom Rakewell, ...

When revolutionary 20th-century composer Igor Stravinsky teamed with co-librettists W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman to write "The Rake's Progress" in 1951, he was finally moving past his "neoclassic" ...

Three wishes come true in the first revival at Covent Garden of this much-travelled production. One: director Robert Lepage’s brilliantly imagined visual feast returns intact, its impact made all the ...

Memorable is the word for Glimmerglass Opera's presentation of “The Rake's Progress” on Sunday. Everything from sets to singers were so excellent and showed so much thought and imagination that the ...

Lepage transplants Auden's Hogarthian tale not unwisely to the 1950s world of "the American dream", to the oil fields of the Midwest and the Hollywood temptations of the West Coast. However, the ...

Here's the plot: "The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Rake's Progress comes to Den Norske Opera in September. Performances ...

So cover your ears if you’re easily offended. On the dewy lawn of a Midwest parsonage Cider and cookies tents grace the fair stage Before the start of the show and then during intermission But to ...