Various dates until Nov. 21, Victoria: The Rake’s Progress is your typical boy-meets-girls, boy-dumps-girl, boy-hangs-out-in-big-city-with-the-devil, boy-ends-up-in-the-nuthouse, boy-dies kind of story. Igor Stravinsky based his opera most famous opera on a series of 18th-century paintings by William Hogarth, and so the tale is appropriately sordid. W.H. Auden co-wrote the libretto, so it’s both sordid and poetic.

Pacific Opera Victoria is mounting a production of Stravinsky’s opera in five performances, with the first happening last night, Nov. 12. Four more chances left to catch it! (Check out the stage and costume design.)