Friday 16 February 2007, 13.00–14.00

Igor Stravinsky first saw William Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress engravings in Chicago in 1946 and soon embarked on writing his own operatic fable on the subject in collaboration with WH Auden and Chester Kallman. Musicologist Gavin Plumley explores how music and poetry have clothed Hogarth’s moralising pictures with operatic pastiche and rich literary references.

Tate Britain  Auditorium
Free, no bookings taken
Seated on a first-come, first-served basis

    

This event is related to the Hogarth exhibition