154K views · 8.4K reactions |  Miah Persson sings Villanelle, the first of six glowing songs from Berlioz’s Les nuits d’été, conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev. Watch the full performance on 5 May, free on Marquee TV. | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Facebook

[ON THIS DAY] Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress premiered at Venice’s La Fenice on this day in 1951. Inspired by a series of 18th-century engravings by William Hogarth, the opera traces the precipitous rise and fall from grace of Tom Rakewell, who abandons his fiancée Anne Trulove for a life of libertinage when he hires a mysterious servant who may yet end up master… Watch now Miah Persson (Anne Trulove) performance of "No word from Tom" now streaming in full on medici.tv.��https://bit.ly/3MIcN8e