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 |
The Rake's Progress - Opera in 3 Acts: Act III, Scene 3: Arioso: "Prepare Yourselves, Heroic...
Singer: Alexander YoungProvided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment
The Rake's Progress - Opera in 3 Acts: Act III, Scene 3: Arioso: "Prepare Yourselves, Heroic Shades" - Dialogue: "Madmen's Words Are All Untrue" - Chorus-Minuet: "Leave All Love and Hope Behind" · Igor Stravinsky / 特拉汶斯基
Stravinsky Conducts "The Rake's Progress"
℗ Originally released 1964 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Tenor: Alexander Young
Librettist: W.H. Auden
Librettist: Chester Kallman
Harpsichord: Colin Tilney
Associated Performer: Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus
Chorus Master: John Barker
Associated Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / 伦敦皇家爱乐管弦乐团 / 倫敦皇家愛樂管弦樂團
Producer: John McClure
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Watch videos with other singers performing Prepare yourselves:
5 - Alexander Young
5 - Robert Rounseville
5 - Eugene Conley
5 - Philip Langridge
5 - Ian Bostridge
5 - Eugene Conley
5 - Paul Franke
6 - Mack Harrell
Other videos of the same singers performing Prepare yourselves:
5 - Robert Rounseville
5 - Eugene Conley
5 - Paul Franke
6 - Mack Harrell
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:
Not entered yet.External links for Prepare yourselves
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