Theatre· Heidelberg
P , MP The Rake’s Progress 19
This refers to Igor Stravinsky's opera *The Rake's Progress*, a three-act English-language opera (libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman) inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. It tells the story of Tom Rakewell, a young man who abandons his sweetheart Anne Trulove for a life of decadence and ruin in London, lured along by the mysterious devil-figure Nick Shadow, ultimately ending