If boys had wings
Opera details:
Opera title: | The Rake's Progress |
Composer: | Igor Stravinsky |
Language: | English |
Synopsis: | The Rake's Progress Synopsis |
Libretto: | The Rake's Progress Libretto |
Translation(s): | Not entered yet. |
Aria details:
Type: | aria |
Role(s): | Tom Rakewell / Nick Shadow |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 3.08 |
| Previous scene: | You love him, seek to set him right |
| Next scene: | I go to him. Oh love |
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress / Act 3 / Scene 1 - "You Love Him" / "If Boys Had Wings"
Singer(s): Bryn Terfel Ian BostridgeProvided to YouTube by Universal Music Group
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress / Act 3 / Scene 1 - "You Love Him" / "If Boys Had Wings" · Anne Sofie von Otter · Deborah York · Peter Bronder · Ian Bostridge · Bryn Terfel · London Symphony Orchestra · John Eliot Gardiner · The Monteverdi Choir
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
℗ 1999 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 1999-01-01
Producer, Recording Producer: Nicholas Parker
Producer: Karsten Witt
A & R: Isabella de Sabata
Studio Personnel, Balance Engineer: Rainer Maillard
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Jobst Eberhardt
Studio Personnel, Engineer, Editor: Stephan Flock
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Author: Chester Kallman
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Watch videos with other singers performing If boys had wings:
5 - Ian Bostridge
6 - Bryn Terfel
5 - Alexander Young
6 - John Reardon
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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
TOM'S AND NICK'S VOICESIf boys had wings
and girls had stings
and gold fell from the sky,
if new-laid eggs
wore wooden legs
I should not laugh or cry.
ANNE
It's Tom, I know!
BABA
The two, then go!
SELLEM, CROWD
The thief, below!
Then go to him!.
His crime was grave.
English Libretto or Translation:
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