The Rake's Progress: Act III, "Good people, just a moment" (Anne, Baba, Tom, Trulove, Shadow) · Chorus La Scala, Milan · Igor Stravinky · Igor Stravinksy · Orchestra La Scala, Milan · Robert Rounseville · Elisabeth Schwarzkopf · Otakar Kraus · Jennie Tourel · Raffaele Arié
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
℗ 2009 Opera d'Oro
Released on: 2009-07-10
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(Baba, Tom, Nick, Anne and Troulove come in. The men aren't wig and Baba beard)
ALL Good people, just a moment. Though our story now is ended, there's a moral to draw from what you saw since the curtain first ascended.
ANNE Not every rake is rescued at the last by love and beauty. Not every man is given an Anne to take the place of duty.
BABA Let Baba warn the ladies: you will find out soon or later that, good or bad, all men are mad, all they say or do is theatre.
TOM Beware young men who fancy you are Virgil or Julius Caesar, lest when you wake you be only a rake.
TRUELOVE I heartily agree, sir.
NICK Day in, day out, poor Shadow must do as he is bidden. Many insist I do not exist. At times I wish I didn't.
ALL So let us sing as one. At all times, in all lands beneath the moon and sun, this proverb has proved true since Eve went out with Adam: For idle hands and hearts and minds the devil finds works that to do. He has a work for you, for you and also for you.