The Rake’s Progress
‘Tis not your money but your soul which I require…’
Performance Dates
About the opera
When the mysterious Nick Shadow appears at his door, Tom Rakewell immediately abandons country life and his sweetheart Anne for the temptations of the city. But London’s glittering promise soon corrodes, and love, money and even sanity slip further and further from Tom’s grasp. Can true love save him, or will the Devil have the last laugh?
Hogarth’s famous sequence of paintings, charting one man’s path from pleasure to ruin, are the starting point for one of the most dazzlingly original works of the 20th century, a Mozart opera that has wandered into a musical hall of mirrors – at once elegant and anarchic. Comedy and tragedy are never far apart in this light-footed work that can break your heart with the broadest of smiles.
One of the great Glyndebourne classics, John Cox’s production returns to the Festival for the first time in a decade, bringing David Hockney’s much-loved designs to a new generation. Robin Ticciati conducts.
A revival of the Festival 1975 production. Sung in English with supertitles.
Creative team
Conductor
Robin Ticciati
Director
John Cox
Designer
David Hockney
Lighting Designer
Robert Bryan
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Chorus Director
Aidan Oliver
Cast includes
Anne Trulove
Louise Alder
Tom Rakewell
Thomas Atkins
Nick Shadow
Sam Carl
Mother Goose
Carole Wilson
Baba the Turk
Alisa Kolosova
Sellem
Rupert Charlesworth
Photos
Photos by Alastair Muir
To find out more about production support for Festival 2023 click here
or contact our Director of Development, Helen McCarthy for an informal chat:
call 01273 815 032 or email helen.mccarthy@glyndebourne.com
Illustration © Katie Ponder