The Rake’s Progress
Tom Rakewell is leading a peaceful life with his girlfriend Anne Trulove when the mysterious Nick Shadow appears out of the blue. He lures Tom with the promises of the modern world: freedom, money and success. Obsessed by those ideas, Rakewell leaves his girlfriend and plunges himself into London’s glittering life. However, his dream turns into a nightmare... In his only full-length opera, Igor Stravinsky furnishes the »career of a rake« with a relishing and whimsical soundscape brimming with (partly ironic) references to the music of Händel, Mozart and Beethoven.
Info
Libretto von Wystan Hugh Auden und Chester Simon Kallman
nach William Hogarths gleichnamiger Bilderfolge
in English with German surtitles
- Location
- Theater Heidelberg, Marguerre-Saal
- First night
- 16 April 2027
- Age recommendation
- 14+
»Fear not. Enjoy. You may repent at leisure.«