The Rake's Progress: Festival d'Aix‐en‐Provence
About the Event
Discover Igor Stravinsky's opera about the dissolute life of a libertine in eighteenth century England, in a production by contemporary playwright Simon McBurney and under the musical direction of Daniel Harding.
Stravinsky found inspiration for this opera about the story of Tom Rakewell and his damned soul, the Mephistophelian figure of Nick Shadow, in a series of paintings by the English painter William Hogarth. His music, which evokes the memory of Mozart, also borrows from Rossini, Verdi and Handel, in a true musical cubism of the greatest originality and acerbity.
In English, with French and English surtitles.
Cast / Production
Conductor: Daniel Harding
Stage director: Simon McBurney
Dramaturge:Gerard McBurney
Stage designer: Michael Levine
Costume designer: Christina Cunningham
Lighting designer: Paul Anderson
Video: Will Duke
Associate director: Leah Hausman
Ann Trulove: Julia Bullock
Tom Rakewell: Paul Appleby
Nick Shadow: Kyle Ketelsen
Trulove: David Pittsinger
Mother Goose: Hilary Summers
Baba la Turque: Andrew Watts
Sellem: Alan Oke
Nick Shadow 2: Evan Hughes
Chorus: English Voices
Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris
