The Rake's Progress

Opera

Writers: Igor Stravinsky W.H. Auden William Hogarth

Songs

  • Prelude

Act One

  • Duet & Trio - The woods are green (Anne, Tom, Truelove)
  • Recit. - Anne my dear (Truelove, Anne, Tom)
  • Recit. & aria - Here I Stand (Tom)
  • Recit. - Tom Rakewell? (Shadow, Tom)
  • Quartet - I wished but once (Tom, Shadow, Truelove, Anne)
  • Recit. - I’ll call the coachman, sir (Shadow, Truelove)
  • Duet - Farewell, farewell (Anne, Tom)
  • Recit. - All is ready, sir (Shadow, Tom)
  • Arioso & Trio - Dear Father Truelove (Tom, Anne, Truelove)
  • Chorus - With air commanding (Chorus)
  • Recit. & Scene - Come, Tom, I fain have our hostess (Tom, Shadow, Mother Goose)
  • Chorus - Soon dawn will glitter (Chorus)
  • Recit. - Brothers of Mars (Shadow)
  • Aria - Love too frequently betrayed (Tom)
  • Chorus - How sad a song (Chorus, Mother Goose)
  • Chorus - The sun is bright (Chorus, Shadow)
  • Recit and aria - No word from Tom (Anne)

Act Two

  • Aria - Vary the song (Tom)
  • Aria - Always the quarry (Tom)
  • Recit. - Master are you alone (Shadow, Tom)
  • Aria - Come Master (Shadow)
  • Duet - My tale shall be told (Tom, Shadow)
  • Recit. & Arioso - How Strange! Although the heart for love dare (Anne)
  • Duet - Anne! Here! (Anne, Tom)
  • Recit. - My love, am I to remain in here forever? (Baba, Tom, Anne)
  • Trio - Could it then have been known? (Anne, Tom, Baba)
  • Finale - I have not run away, dear heart (Baba, Tom, Chorus)
  • Aria - As I was saying both brothers wore moustaches...Scorned! Abused!
  • Recit. - My heart is cold, (Tom)
  • Recit. & Arioso - O I wish it were true (Tom, Shadow)
  • Duet - Thanks to this excellent device (Tom, Shadow)
  • Recit. - Forgive me, master (Shadow, Tom)

Act Three

  • Scene & Chorus - Ruin! Disaster! (Chorus, Anne, Sellem)
  • Recit. & Aria - Ladies both fair and gracious (Sellem)
  • Aria - Sold! Annoyed! (Baba, Chorus, Tom, Shadow)
  • Recit.- Now what was that? (Chorus, Baba, Sellem, Anne)
  • Duet - You love him, seek to set him right (Baba, Anne, Sellem, Chorus)
  • Ballad & Finale - If boys had wings (Tom, Shadow, Anne, Baba, Sellem, Chorus)
  • Duet - How dark, how dark (Tom, Shadow)
  • Recit. - Very well then (Shadow, Tom)
  • Duet & Scene - My heart is wild with fear (Tom, Shadow, Anne)
  • Arioso - Prepare yourselves (Tom, Chorus)
  • Chorus - Minuet (chorus)
  • Recit. - There he is have no fear (Keeper, Anne, Tom)
  • Arioso - I have waited (Tom)
  • Duet - In a foolish dream (Tom, Anne)
  • Lullaby - Gently, little boat, (Anne, Chorus)
  • Recit. - Anne, my dear, the tale is now ended (Truelove, Anne)
  • Duet - Every wearied body (Truelove, Anne)
  • Finale - Where art thou, Venus? (Tom, Chorus)
  • Epilogue - Good people just a moment (Tutti)

A song with an asterisk (*) before the title indicates a dance number; a character listed in a song with an asterisk (*) by the character's name indicates that the character exclusively serves as a dancer in this song, which is sung by other characters.


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