Tom, the title character, is persuaded to believe that a machine can turn stones into bread, to marry the bearded lady Baba the Turk, and to visit Mother Goose's Brothel by his servant, Nick Shadow.
Tom, the title character, is persuaded to believe that a machine can turn stones into bread, to marry the bearded lady Baba the Turk, and to visit Mother Goose's Brothel by his servant, Nick Shadow. After a year and a day, Tom successfully guesses Shadow's three cards to save his soul, so Shadow makes him insane, which is how Anne Trulove finds him. Her father takes her home, Tom is left in Bedlam, and the opera ends with the main characters singing, "For idle hands and hearts and minds, the Devil finds a work to do." For 10 points, name this opera with libretto by Chester Kallman and W.H. Auden, inspired by Igor Stravinsky's viewing of the Hogarth series whose name it shares.
Tom, the title character, is persuaded to believe that a machine can turn stones into bread, to marry the bearded lady Baba the Turk, and to visit Mother Goose's Brothel by his servant, Nick Shadow.
The {Rake’s Progress}