08 Jul 2008
The Rake’s Progress, Royal Opera House, London
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8bab058c-4d06-11dd-b527-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8bab058c-4d06-11dd-b527-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
By Richard Fairman [Financial Times, 8 July 2008]
Did a more intellectual pair ever come together to write an opera than Igor Stravinsky and W.H. Auden? They gave The Rake’s Progress so many reference points to art, music and literature through the ages that Tom Rakewell’s story really does come across as a parable for all time.