The Rake's Progress Teachers Guide - San Francisco Opera
The Rake's Progress Teachers Guide - San Francisco Opera
The Rake's Progress Teachers Guide - San Francisco Opera
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Activity Extension<br />
Be a Composer!<br />
<strong>The</strong> Rake’s <strong>Progress</strong> began life as a story in art. Almost every stage piece (opera, musical,<br />
play) started as some other story. This story is called the source material. Choose a novel<br />
you have read or a good story and think about how you would go about adapting it into an<br />
opera or piece of musical theatre. You would have to choose what parts of the drama would<br />
be highlighted with what sorts of music. When would there be duets, or trios, or quartets? Or<br />
big soaring arias? How would you set your opening scene? Would you have a big chorus to<br />
set up the place and time or would it begin in a more quiet way? Write out an outline and try to<br />
structure the beginnings of an opera.<br />
Be a Designer!<br />
You have read that <strong>The</strong> Rakes <strong>Progress</strong> takes place back in England, but it is a story that is<br />
timeless and has been adapted differently over the past 56 years. If you were to set this story<br />
in modern day, what would the characters be like? Which actors or singers would you cast in<br />
each role? How is our culture different from 100 years ago in Great Britain? Are laws and<br />
customs and styles different? How would you capture this in the set, costume, prop, and<br />
lighting design of the production?<br />
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