Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress"
When:
Wednesday, Feb 03, 2016 7:30p -
Saturday, Feb 06, 2016 10:00p
Wednesday, Feb 03, 2016 7:30p -
Saturday, Feb 06, 2016 10:00p
Where:
Agassiz Theatre at Harvard University
10 Garden St
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
$20
Categories:
Music, Performing Arts, University
Event website:
http://bit.ly/1P3DIqh
Regular price $20 -- get free or half-price tickets with this link:
February 3: Free cover performance. This performance will have a different cast and only piano. Event entry is first-come first-served as the door pending space availability.
February 4-6: $20, seniors $10, students $5
Young Tom Rakewell is set for a placid life in the suburbs with his sweetheart Anne Trulove–that is, until slick Nick Shadow shows up unexpectedly with the news that Tom has inherited a fortune. Pockets loaded, Tom ditches suburbia for the carnal delights of the city, where his debauchery gets him mixed up with the bearded showgirl Baba the Turk. Lost in a world of vice, Tom becomes enchanted by Shadow’s ability to fulfill his every desire. But will he wake up to find that he’s taken a trip to Sin City with the devil?
In THE RAKE’S PROGRESS, Stravinsky delivers his own twist on classical Mozartian opera that offers a moral snugly packaged in melodrama. Inspired by Stravinsky’s playful irony, Harvard College Opera’s production will set Tom’s journey in a setting both familiar and off-key–a surreal 1950s inspired by the Twilight Zone and neo-noir filmmaker David Lynch.
More info: http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/event/rakes-progress-0
