

What if Faust was a broke bro who really wanted a burger?
The devil is hard at work in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress! The three-act opera was premiered at Venice’s La Fenice in 1951 and is whimsically staged and performed in this production from the 2010 Glyndebourne opera festival.
Production
David Hockney's sets are pure visual ecstasy.
Acting
Matthew Rose's Nick Shadow: seductive menace incarnate.
Score
Stravinsky's neoclassical bops hit different.
Director
John Cox
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Stravinsky composed this after seeing a Hogarth painting series at Chicago's Art Institute in 1947.
This Glyndebourne production deliberately mirrors 1950s Americana—think Leave It to Beaver meets damnation.