The Rake's Progress - Opera in 3 Acts: Act III, Scene 3: Prepare Yourselves, Heroic Shades - Madmen's Words Are All Untrue - Leave All Love and Hope Behind · Igor Stravinsky · Eugene Conley
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
℗ 1953 Sony Music Entertainment
Librettist: W.H. Auden Librettist: Chester Kallman Associated Performer: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Associated Performer: Metropolitan Opera Chorus
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(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.