GRZ4829023 Igor Stravinsky during rehearsals for his opera The Rake?'s Progress, at the theatre La Scala, Milan, Italy before its premiere at Gran Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 1951 by .; (add.info.: Opera in three acts (with epilogue) by Igor Stravinsky, with English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman. The Rake???s Progress was premiered on 11 September 1951 in the Gran Teatro La Fenice, directed by the composer himself and with the choir and orchestra of Teatro alla Scala from Milan. 1882-1971); Photo ?? Archivio Arici; .