The Rake's Progress is an opera composed by which composer?

• A. Wagner
• B. Stravinsky
• C. Puccini
• D. Verdi

Answer: (B)

Igor Stravinsky is the composer of The Rake's Progress, an opera from his mid-20th-century neoclassical period. This work pairs Stravinsky’s modern musical language with traditional operatic forms and features a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman based on William Hogarth’s engraving A Rake’s Progress, telling the downfall of Tom Rakewell. Its style and era distinguish it from Wagner’s Romantic music dramas, Puccini’s late-Romantic Italian operas, and Verdi’s 19th-century classics, making Stravinsky the correct answer.