Prepare yourselves
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 |
Voice(s): | Tenor |
Act: | 3.16 |
| Previous scene: | With Roses Crowned |
| Next scene: | Madmen's words are all untrue |
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress / Act 3 / Scene 3 - "Prepare Yourselves, Heroic Shades" /...
Singer: Ian BostridgeProvided to YouTube by Universal Music Group
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress / Act 3 / Scene 3 - "Prepare Yourselves, Heroic Shades" / "Madmen's Words Are All Untrue" / "Leave All Love And Hope Behind" · Ian Bostridge · 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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Libretto/Lyrics/Text/Testo:
Third Scene(A mental hospital in London)
(Tom is with a blind man with a violin, a cripple
soldier, a man with a telescope and three old witches.
On the wall, a straw mattress)
Aria
TOM
Prepare yourselves, ye heroic shades.
Wash you and make you clean.
Anoint your limbs with oil,
put on your wedding garments
and crown your heads with flowers.
Let music strike.
Venus, queen of love,
will visit her unworthy Adonis.
English Libretto or Translation:
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