04 May 2015
The Rake’s Progress, Metropolitan Opera, New York
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A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
By Martin Bernheimer [FT, 4 May 2015]
The Met season is gasping to a close, but the final major gasp — a revival of The Rake’s Progress — offers some degree of exhilaration.
Only “some degree”? Blame the qualification on the size of the house. Stravinsky’s quixotic faux-baroque masterpiece had its premiere, back in 1951, at La Fenice in Venice (with none less than Elisabeth Schwarzkopf heading the cast). At the time, the capacity of that theatre was 840. The all-too-mighty Met accommodates 4,000. Enough said, and, alas, enough badly heard.