In doing The Rake’s Progress of Igor Stravinsky, the New York City Opera tried its hand at a classic of musical modernism. Despite an unsuitable set design and a less than stellar musical execution, ...

This takes an immense amount of planning so when the safety curtains of the world s opera theatres began to crash down earlier this year, we soon knew it would be impossible to mount our planned ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In his list of works, Stravinsky’s short fairy-tale opera, “The Nightingale” (“Le Rossignol”), follows almost directly on the heels of his great string of early Russian ballets. With ...

Etc.: Through Saturday, the CU Art Museum hosts an exhibit featuring the “Rake’s Progress” prints of Hockney and Hogarth . . . A conference about “The Rake’s Progress” is set for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday ...

It was an art exhibition that inspired it — in May 1947, composer Igor Stravinsky attended a Chicago showing of a series of 18th-century engravings by William Hogarth titled “A Rake’s Progress.” Later ...

Cambridge, MA - Tickets are now on sale for Harvard College Opera's production of Stravinsky's 20th century neoclassical English opera The Rake's Progress. Performances will take place tonight, ...

Stephanie Blythe as Baba the Turk in Stravinksky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’ (all photos by Marty Sohl and courtesy of Metropolitan Opera) Clouds, shadows, and other hazy mirrors of the soul have long led ...

University opera programs tend to shy away from Igor Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress," which makes it all the more appealing to the LSU Opera. The music is challenging and in demand among individual ...