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 |
Act III Scene 3: Arioso: Prepare yourselves… (Tom)
Singer: Jon GarrisonProvided to YouTube by NAXOS of America
Act III Scene 3: Arioso: Prepare yourselves… (Tom) · Jayne West
Stravinsky, I.: The Rake's Progress (Opera)
â„— 2009 Naxos
Released on: 2009-05-26
Artist: Arthur Woodley
Composer: Chester Kallman
Choir: Gregg Smith Singers
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Artist: Jayne West
Artist: Jeffrey Johnson
Artist: John Cheek
Artist: Jon Garrison
Artist: Melvin Lowery
Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke's
Conductor: Robert Craft
Artist: Shirley Love
Artist: Wendy White
Composer: Wystan Hugh Auden
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Watch videos with other singers performing Prepare yourselves:
5 - Alexander Young
5 - Robert Rounseville
5 - Eugene Conley
5 - Jon Garrison
5 - Philip Langridge
5 - Ian Bostridge
5 - Eugene Conley
5 - Paul Franke
5 - Paul Franke
6 - Mack Harrell
Other videos of the same singers performing Prepare yourselves:
5 - Eugene Conley
5 - Robert Rounseville
5 - Eugene Conley
5 - Paul Franke
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:
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