Music Preview: Recalling the American premiere of Stravinsky's magnificent 'The Rake's Progress' by Robert Croan / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Opera production of Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress," the neoclassical opera by Igor Stravinsky, opens this weekend at the Benedum Center. That opera has become a standard of 20th century repertoire, but Post-Gazette senior editor Robert Croan saw the first performance in the U.S. more than six decades ago. He recounts his vivid memories of that experience:  

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