The Rake's Progress

Peacock, LondonBased on Hogarth's set of paintings, Stravinsky's morality tale seems fertile territory for young performers, with its anti-hero and incipient wastrel whose easily discarded fiancee maintains her innocence even as he descends into vice and madness. And so it proves in this British Youth Opera production directed by William Kerley, which benefits not only from the characters' physical credibility but also from a keen attention to diction that allows Auden and Kallman's allusive lib...

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