Igorfest: the Rake's Progress

Our ground-breaking four-year journey through Stravinsky’s complete works reaches a major milestone with his only full-length opera.
The Rake’s Progress – composed in 1951 to a libretto by his great
collaborator W H Auden, and Chester Kallman – is a witty retelling of the
Faust legend inspired by Hogarth’s famous series of paintings. The setting in 18th-century London allowed Stravinsky to indulge his passion for neo-classical pastiche, and so the opera is a 20th-century take on the Mozart operas which he adored. Dutch conductor Jac van Steen is joined by a distinguished British cast for this very modern morality tale. Sung in the original English.

6.15pm pre-concert talk

£39, £36.50, £31.50, £27.50, £23, £20, £16.50, £13, £9.50

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