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Title:
The rake's progress [videorecording] / Igor Stravinsky ; text by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallmann after William Hogarth's series of paintings ; producer, Peter Mussbach ; directed for television by Brian Large ; an ORF/RM Arts coproduction in association with the Salzburg Festival & Radio Telefis Eireann.

Call Number:
782.1 STRAVINSKY

Publication Information :
[London?] : RM Associates ; Chatsworth, CA : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [2000], c1996.

Physical Description:
1 videodisc (156 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:
Presented in a 1.78:1 widescreen aspect ratio.

Creation/Production Credits:
Camera, Helmut Fibich... [et al.] ; set designs and costumes, Jorg Immendorff ; lighting designer, Wolfgang Göbbel ; editors, Wolfgang A. Hermann, Jo Burkl.

Performer(s):
Jonathan Best (Trulove) ; Dawn Upshaw (Anne Trulove) ; Jerry Hadley (Tom Rakewell) ; Monte Pederson (Nick Shadow) ; Linda Ormiston (Mother Goose) ; Jane Henschel (Baba the Turk) ; Barry Banks (Sellem) ; Peter Tuff (Keeper) ; Vienna State Opera Chorus ; Dietrich D. Gerpheide, chorus master ; Camerata Academica ; Sylvain Cambreling, conductor.

Date:
DVD release of the performance recorded live at the Salzburg Festival in 1996.

Summary:
Charts the rise and decline of Tom Rakewell after he inherits an unexpected legacy.

Language:
Opera in 3 acts; sung in English with English subtitles.

Subject Term:
Operas.

Genre Subject Term:
DVDs.

Added Author:
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
Kallman, Chester, 1921- .
Mussbach, Peter.
Large, Brian.
Best, Jonathan.
Upshaw, Dawn.
Hadley, Jerry.
Pederson, Monte.
Ormiston, Linda.
Henschel, Jane, 1950- .
Banks, Barry.
Tuff, Peter.
Cambreling, Sylvain.
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Rake's progress.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Rake's progress.

Added Author:
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor.
Camerata Academica Salzburg.
Österreichischer Rundfunk.
RM Arts (Firm)
Radio Telefís Éireann.
Reiner Moritz Associates.
Image Entertainment (Firm)

Conference Author:
Salzburger Festspiele.