The Rakes Progress
music by Stravinsky; libretto by WH Auden
Staatsoper Hannover, Germany
May 2002
director and co-set and film designer: Tim Hopkins
co-set and film designer: Pippa Nissen
costume designer: Tania Spooner
lighting designer: Herman Münzer
choreographer: Kate Brown
musical director: Jürg Henneberger
The set is a replica cross section through a suburban house from 1950’s Britain. The house becomes a metaphor for the mind; being trapped inside someone’s head, and inside the home.
Instead of the scenes described by Hogarth’s original story, the scenes get played out within the house.
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