The Rake's Progress Teachers Guide - San Francisco Opera

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Character Creation Think about the characters and the role they play in the story. Choose one from the following: Anne Trulove Tom Rakewell Nick Shadow Mother Goose Baba the Turk If you were going to play this character, you would have to discover, create, and imagine the background, personality, physical qualities of him or her. Some clues are provided in the story and the music and some you need to make-up yourself. Pretend you are that character and answer the following questions: 1. How old are you? 2. Do you have brothers and sisters? 3. What sort of home do you have (a house/castle/cave?) Describe it. 4. What do you really want in the story? This is called your character’s objective. 5. What obstacles stand in your way? 6. What steps in the opera do you take to achieve this objective? What are the results? 34
7. What obstacles are beyond your control (laws, social status, others’ actions)? 8. What are your (character’s) greatest strengths? 9. Greatest weaknesses? 10. Can you think of a modern day character that has similar characteristics and traits? 11. If this character were alive today, how would he she be more or less successful in the world? 12. What different steps would he or she take to achieve an objective? Get up and walk around the room. How does your character walk? It should be different than you. How does this character sit? 35
Page 1: The Rake’s Progress San Francisco
Page 4 and 5: Many thanks to the proud sponsors o
Page 7: Table of Contents A Short Introduct
Page 11 and 12: Opera Glossary Accompaniment - An i
Page 13 and 14: Libretto - Literally “little book
Page 15 and 16: Operatic Voices Operatic singing de
Page 17 and 18: Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (June 1
Page 19 and 20: Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso collab
Page 21 and 22: W.H. Auden Wystan Hugh Auden (21 Fe
Page 23 and 24: Once upon a time… The Story of Th
Page 25 and 26: William Hogarth (November 10, 1697
Page 27 and 28: Plate 3 — The Tavern Scene Plate
Page 29 and 30: Plate 7 — The Prison Scene Plate
Page 31 and 32: Bedlam The Bethlem Royal Hospital o
Page 33: The Five C’s Using the Five C’s
Page 37 and 38: New Endings Summary of Activity Fol
Page 39 and 40: Other Graphic Art Ancient cave pain
Page 41 and 42: Audience Etiquette The following li
Page 43 and 44: The Publications Coordinator then g
Page 45 and 46: The Lighting Designer works with th
Page 47 and 48: Questions and Activities In general
Page 49 and 50: Opera and the California State Fram
Page 51 and 52: SAN FRANCISCO OPERA EDUCATION DEPAR
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