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| When: | |
Thursday 03 July 2008 at 18:05 |
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Garsington Manor, Garsington, Oxford |
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| Concert Title: | |
The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky |
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| Programme : | | Igor Stravinsky |
| 1: | | The Rake's Progress |
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| Note: | |
Stravinsky’s operatic masterpiece stands today as one of the great operas of the twentieth entury. With an English libretto by W H Auden and Chester Kallman, the story is based on the vivid sequence of engravings by the eighteenth century artist William Hogarth. Young Tom Rakewell is abducted by a sinister stranger Nick Shadow from his beloved Anne Trulove, and he descends into decadence and vice amidst the fleshpots of Georgian London. By the time poor Tom acknowledges the error of his ways he has lost his sanity and is committeed to Bedlam. This work of genius miraculously combines the formality of eighteenth century classical music with the sharp accents and syncopation of the twentieth century, and similarly an ironic, comical view of life’s fortunes with moments of great tenderness. |
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£80 - £135 |
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| Box Office: | |
Garsington Opera Garsington Manor Garsington Oxfordshire OX44 9DH England |
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office@garsingtonopera.org |
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01865 361636 |
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01865 361545 |
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| Venue: | |
Garsington Manor Garsington, Oxford Oxfordshire OX44 9DH England |
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office@garsingtonopera.org |
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01865 368201 |
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01865 361545 |
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