In doing The Rake’s Progress of Igor Stravinsky, the New York City Opera tried its hand at a classic of musical modernism. Despite an unsuitable set design and a less than stellar musical execution, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — In his list of works, Stravinsky’s short fairy-tale opera, “The Nightingale” (“Le Rossignol”), follows almost directly on the heels of his great string of early Russian ballets. With ...

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Caedit nos pestis: “The plague falls upon us.” The dire opening of Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex” should have had a chilling effect when L.A. Opera presented the work at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, on ...

University opera programs tend to shy away from Igor Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress," which makes it all the more appealing to the LSU Opera. The music is challenging and in demand among individual ...

Etc.: Through Saturday, the CU Art Museum hosts an exhibit featuring the “Rake’s Progress” prints of Hockney and Hogarth . . . A conference about “The Rake’s Progress” is set for 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday ...

It was an art exhibition that inspired it — in May 1947, composer Igor Stravinsky attended a Chicago showing of a series of 18th-century engravings by William Hogarth titled “A Rake’s Progress.” Later ...

Stephanie Blythe as Baba the Turk in Stravinksky’s ‘The Rake’s Progress’ (all photos by Marty Sohl and courtesy of Metropolitan Opera) Clouds, shadows, and other hazy mirrors of the soul have long led ...

Oakland Opera Theater, applauded by critics and audiences for its intimately staged, professionally produced performances of 20th and 21st century operas, will present audiences with a breathtaking ...

Today’s opera quiz: Which two major opera librettos feature ladies with beards? Angelenos should require no clues because by curious coincidence both found their way to local stages Saturday night.