| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 29 min., 21 sec.)) : sound, color |
| Playing Time |
022921 |
| Description |
digital |
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video file |
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polychrome |
| Note |
Opera. |
| Performer |
Andrew Kennedy (Tom Rakewell) ; Laura Claycomb (Anne Truelove) ; William Shimell (Nick Shadow) ; Dagmar Peckova (Baba the Turk) ; Darren Jeffery (Trulove) ; Donal J. Byrne (Sellem) ; Shadi Torbey (The Keeper of the Madhouse) ; La Monnaie Chorus and Symphony Orchestra ; Kazushi Ono, conductor. |
| Event |
Recorded live 2007 Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium. |
| Summary |
Fall and redemption in an outstanding production of The Rake's progress by Robert Lepage. Tom Rakewell, a young and penniless Englishman, is in love with Anne Trulove. A stranger, who announces himself as Nick Shadow, suddenly arrives with the news that an unknown uncle of Tom's has died and left him a fortune. Tom must go at once to London to take over his uncle's estate. Shadow, hired as Tom's servant, soon debauches the young man and leads him into London's brothels. Having no news from her lover, Anne leaves her father's house for London, determined to find him. She soon discovers that he got married with the eccentric Baba the Turk. Under the harmful influence of Nick Shadow, Tom's financial bubble has burst, bringing ruin to himself and to countless innocent investors in his scheme. A year and a day have passed since Shadow entered Tom's service. He now claims his wages: Tom's soul. Drawing their inspiration from Faust and a series of eight engravings by William Hogarth, Stravinsky and Wystan Hugh Auden offer us a neo classical masterwork reminding of Mozart's operas. But the Rake's progress is first and foremost and moral fable revealing the frailty of our will in front of worldly and shallow temptations. Without any condemnation however, the authors depict the subtle portrait of a young man more weak and naive than truly guilty. Set in the United States of the 50's, Robert Lepage's production casts Andrew Kennedy and Laura Claycomb, bringing brilliantly to life Tom Rakewell's vulnerability and the steadfastness of Anne Trulove. |
| Language |
English; English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Operas.
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Operas. |
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Internet videos.
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Internet videos.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Added Author |
Lepage, Robert, 1957- stage director.
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Vlietinck, Benoît, film director.
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Kennedy, Andrew, 1977- singer.
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Claycomb, Laura, singer.
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Shimell, William, singer.
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Pecková, Dagmar, singer.
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Jeffery, Darren, singer.
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Byrne, Donal J., singer.
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Torbey, Shadi, singer.
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Ono, Kazushi, conductor.
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Container of (work): Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Rake's progress.
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Théâtre royal de la Monnaie, performer, production company.
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Radio-Télévision belge de la communauté culturelle française, production company.
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Association relative à la télévision européenne, production company.
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Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai, production company.
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Alfacam (Firm), production company.
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