At The Opera, Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress, February 4, 2017
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The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings A Rake's Progress (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on May 2, 1947, in a Chicago exhibition.
The story concerns the decline and fall of one Tom Rakewell, who deserts Anne Trulove for the delights of London in the company of Nick Shadow, who turns out to be the Devil. After several misadventures, all initiated by the devious Shadow, Tom ends up in Bedlam, a hospital for the 'insane' at that time situated in the City of London. The moral of the tale is: "For idle hearts and hands and minds the Devil finds work to do."
Erato 1996 recording
Kent Nagano - conductor
Staring Jerry Hadley, Dawn Upshaw, Samuel Ramey and Grace Bumbry.
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:11 p.m.
Samuel Ramey, Jerry Hadley
Stravinsky
The Rake's Progress
; Kent Nagano, conductor
10:53 p.m.
Gigli, Basiola, Pacetti
LEONCAVALLO
Pagliacci, opera: Prologue: 'Si può?'
11:23 p.m.
Mario Lanza
Brodsky
Be My Love (from "The Toast of New Orleans") Lanza, Mario; Sinatra, Ray
11:27 p.m.
Mario Lanza
Drink, Drink, Drink (From "The Student Prince")
11:30 p.m.
Mario Lanza
Mercer
Song of India Lanza, Mario
11:34 p.m.
Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza - Arrivederci, Roma (featured in "The Seven Hills of Rome")
11:41 p.m.
Maria Callas
Norma, Act 2: "Deh! non volerli vittime" (Chorus, Norma, Pollione, Oroveso)
11:46 p.m.
Beniamino Gigli
Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana
La Scala; Mascagni, conductor
