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Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts
702 S 5th StBrainerd, MN 56401
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The Lakes Area Music Festival presents the opera The Rake's Progress on August 10 & 11!
Opera director Omer Ben Seadia and music director Christian Reif lead an all-star cast in an exquisite production of Igor Stravinsky’s delightfully clever opera, The Rake’s Progress. The story concerns the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, who deserts his rural country town and girlfriend Anne Trulove for the delights of London. Being seduced by greed and fame under the spell of his devilish companion, Nick Shadow, Tom meets his moral, mental, and physical demise. The closing moral of the tale is: “For idle hearts and hands and minds the Devil finds work to do.”
Sung in Italian with English supertitles.
THE RAKE'S PROGRESS
IGOR STRAVINSKY, music
CHESTER HALLMAN and W. H. AUDEN, text
For more information about The Rake's Progress and to reserve your ticket visit our website. Learn more about our 16th annual summer season July 26-August 18!
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We believe that high quality arts experiences should be accessible to all. Therefore, we do not charge a set fee to attend our performances. However, we do believe that each LAMF performance is a valuable experience and recommend a $20 ticket price. Our name-your-price model allows you to select an amount that works for you, anywhere from zero to infinity!