First Nighter: Stravinsky's "Rake's Progress" Back at the Met

When you compose an opera based on William Hogarth's famous and guardedly beloved series "The Rake's Progress," you build in a certain expectation. Spectators in large numbers will have the highly populated depictions of louche English 18th-century behavior in mind as they enter. They could assume that's what they'll be seeing. Jonathan Miller's 1997 production of The Rake's Progress, revived at the Metropolitan Opera House for the first time since 2003 and around for only two additional perform...