with Judith Raskin as Ann and John Reardon as Nick Shadow, is from London 1964 and is conducted by Stravinsky himself. It is currently available on the Sony/BMG 22-CD box set Works of Igor Stravinsky. References Sources Fuller, John. W. H. Auden: A Commentary. London: Faber and Faber, 1998. (cased); (pbk). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. (cased); (pbk.) Griffiths, Paul, with Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, and Gabriel Josipovici. Igor Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Mendelson, Edward. Later Auden. London: Faber, 1999. . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Further reading Carter, Chandler. "The Rake's Progress and Stravinsky's Return: The Composer's Evolving Approach to Setting Text". Journal of the American Musicological Society 63, no. 3 (Fall 2010): 553–640. Carter, Chandler. The Last Opera: 'The Rake's Progress' in the Life of Stravinsky and Sung Drama. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. External links The W. H. Auden Society The Rake's Progress Libretto (in English and Italian) from Portale di varia cultura "Throughout The Rake’s Progress, the steady friction between Stravinsky’s music and Auden’s poetry creates a musico-poetic compound that brims with energy and life." Operas by Igor Stravinsky English-language operas 1951 operas Neoclassicism (music) Operas Libretti by W. H. Auden Operas set in London Operas set in England Music based on art Opera world premieres at La Fenice The Devil in opera