As part of their 2024 Spring opera season, English Touring Opera staged The Rake’s Progress by Igor Stravinsky at the Hackney Empire. Conceived later on in Stravinsky’s life, when he was living in America, The Rake’s Progress was his one and only full-length opera. Drawing inspiration from a William Hogarth exhibition he had visited in Chicago, he got writing…
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Kensington Igor: Prom 8, Pergolesi ‘Stabat mater’ & Stravinsky ‘Pulcinella’
It’s a phrase we’ll hopefully hear a lot more of in the coming weeks and months: “it’s good to be back”. Cliché, perhaps: but the thought filled me like a billowing sail when the Royal Albert Hall loomed into view for my first live Prom of the season. There isn’t another classical music experience quite…