BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Seiji Ozawa, Music Director Bernard Haitink, Principal Guest Conductor One Hundred and Fifteenth Season, 1995-96

Thursday, December 7, at 8

Saturday, December 9, at 8 Tuesday, December 12, at 8

SEIJI OZAWA conducting The Rakes Progress

Opera in three acts (nine scenes and an epilogue) to a libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman

Anne Trulove DAWN UPSHAW, soprano Tom Rakewell PHILIP LANGRIDGE, tenor Nick Shadow PAUL PLISHKA, bass Baba the Turk JANE HENSCHEL, mezzo-soprano Mother Goose JOAN KHARA, mezzo-soprano Sellem STEVEN COLE, tenor Trulove KEVIN SHORT, bass-baritone Keeper of the Madhouse ROBERT HONEYSUCKER, bass Whores and roaring-boys, servants, citizens, madmen TANGLEWOOD FESTIVAL CHORUS, JOHN OLIVER, conductor MARK KROLL, harpsichord

Concert staging by DAVID KNEUSS Design by JOHN MICHAEL DEEGAN and SARAH G CONLY Choreography by ANDREW PACHO ANDREW PACHO and MAM SMITH, acrobatic dancers

Scenery constructed by Virginia Scenic, a division of Virginia Costumes supplied by Malabar Limited Susan Santoian, costume coordinator Acrobatic dancers provided by ANTIGRAVITY Dance Co., NYC Lighting executed by H.R. Costa Dan Saunders, musical assistant Christopher Middleton, prompter Frank Corliss, rehearsal pianist

Laurence J. Geddes, stage manager

Cover singers: Jayne West, soprano (Anne); Emily Golden, mezzo-soprano (Baba the Turk, Mother Goose); Gordon Gietz, tenor (Tom); Jerold Siena, tenor (Sellem); Michael Olbash, bass (Keeper of the Madhouse)

The Rake's Progress is performed by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, publisher and copyright owner.

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