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Anne Trulove Miah Persson Tom Rakewell Topi Lehtipuu Father Trulove Clive Bayley Nick Shadow Matthew Rose Mother Goose Susan Gorton Baba the Turk Elena Manistina Sellem Graham Clark The Glyndebourne Chorus London Philharmonic Orchestra DirectorJohn Cox Conductor Vladimir Jurowski Recorded live at the Glyndebourne Opera House, 18 & 19 December, 2010 Extra features: Documentary includes interview with David Hockney Introduction to the Rake's Progress 
In this celebrated Glyndebourne Festival production, David Hockney's designs for director John Cox reinterpret the Hogarth etchings that inspired the opera's libretto, written for Stravinsky by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman. In 2010, this revival under Glyndebourne's Music Director, Vladimir Jurowski, captured the opera's neo-classical spirit and its juxtaposition of whimsy, cynicism and compassion, prompting the Financial Times to call it,as enjoyable a performance of Stravinsky's opera as any that has come along«.
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