#Harlots progress series#
The series of paintings proved to be very popular and Hogarth used his experience as an apprentice to a silversmith to create engravings of the images, selling a "limited edition" of 1,240 sets of six prints to subscribers for a guinea. Kate was a notorious prostitute and the sister of highwayman Francis Hackabout: he was hanged on 17 April 1730 she was convicted of keeping a disorderly house in August the same year, having been arrested by Westminster magistrate Sir John Gonson. Hackabout Died Sept 2d 1731 Aged 23") is either named after the heroine of Moll Flanders and Kate Hackabout or ironically after the Blessed Virgin Mary. Hackabout" (see Plate 1, Plate 3, and the coffin-lid in Plate 6, which reads: "M. In the fifth scene she is dying from venereal disease, and she is dead at age 23 in the last. In the second image she is with two lovers: a mistress, in the third she has become a prostitute as well as arrested, she is beating hemp in Bridewell Prison in the fourth. A gentleman is shown towards the back of the image. In the first scene, an old woman praises her beauty and suggests a profitable occupation. The title and allegory are reminiscent of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. After painting a prostitute in her boudoir in a garret on Drury Lane, Hogarth struck upon the idea of creating scenes from her earlier and later life. The series was developed from the third image. (Moll or Mary) Hackabout, who arrives in London from the country and becomes a prostitute. The series shows the story of a young woman, M. For the 2013 opera, see A Harlot's Progress (opera).Ī Harlot's Progress (also known as The Harlot's Progress) is a series of six paintings (1731, now destroyed) and engravings (1732) by the English artist William Hogarth. Retrieved 12 February 2015.For the 2006 television film, see A Harlot's Progress (film). "Iain Bell's A Harlot's Progress enjoys a strong debut at Theater an der Wien".
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A Harlot's Progress together with Written on Skin by George Benjamin are the great successes of contemporary opera".
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George Loomis of The New York Times praised Bell, saying the mad scene in the piece "confirms that Bell knows how to write for the human voice" and that the composer was "an accomplished writer for the orchestra" and Seen and Heard hailed it as an ".opera to be reckoned with. The Kurier called it "cinematic, dramatic and thrilling" and Der Standard referred to it as a "soul-devouring juggernaut". The Oberösterreichische Nachrichten described it as an "enthralling and acclaimed world premiere". Scene 2: The house of Lovelace, Leadenhall Street.Following the successful critical and audience response to the piece, the performance of 24 October 2013 was broadcast in a live web stream, in what was Theater an der Wien's first such transmission from their main auditorium. Additional cast members included Nathan Gunn, Marie McLaughlin, Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught, English tenor Christopher Gillett and French bass-baritone Nicolas Testé, with the Arnold Schoenberg Choir as the chorus, and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. The opera premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 13 October 2013 with coloratura soprano Diana Damrau in the lead role of Moll Hackabout conducted by Mikko Franck in a production by Jens-Daniel Herzog. Thrown out by him because of her taking of younger lovers, she becomes diseased and mad and eventually dies in misery.
The story concerns a country girl, who comes to the big city and becomes mistress of an old, rich man. The libretto is by British author Peter Ackroyd. A Harlot's Progress is an opera in six scenes by the British composer Iain Bell which is based on William Hogarth's series of etchings of the same name.
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