In 1951, in Venice, Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his only full-length opera The Rake’s Progress. He had conceived the idea for this work after visiting the Chicago Art Institute in 1947, where he came upon a series of eight satirical engravings of the same title, created by the Engli...

Great Arias Dame Ann Murray - Ariodante: "Take you pleasure" from English National Opera, 1996. Conductor Ivor Bolton.