José Cura (born December 5, 1962 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine operatic tenor, conductor, director, scenographer and photographer known for intense and original interpretations of opera characters, notably "Otello" in Verdi’s "Otello", "Samson" in Saint-Saëns’ "Samson et Dalila", "Canio" in Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci", "Stiffelio" in Giuseppe Verdi's "Stiffelio" and many others.
The Pleasantville Music Festival is a single-day music festival which takes place annually at Parkway Field in Pleasantville, New York.
 Some of the many acts that have performed at the Pleasantville Music Festival are: Guster, Gin Blossoms, Jakob Dylan, Joan Osborne, Marc Cohn, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, the English Beat, and Roger McGuinn.
 These major acts perform alongside up and coming national acts and small local bands from around the tri-state area.
Budgie are a Welsh hard rock band from Cardiff.
 They are described by author Garry Sharpe-Young as one of the earliest heavy metal bands and a seminal influence to many acts of that scene, with fast, heavy rock (an influence on the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) and acts such as Metallica) being played as early as 1971.
 The band has been noted as "among the heaviest metal of its day".
Four Times of the Day is a series of four paintings by English artist William Hogarth.
 Completed in 1736, they were reproduced as a series of four engravings published in 1738.
 They are humorous depictions of life in the streets of London, the vagaries of fashion, and the interactions between the rich and poor.
 Unlike many of Hogarth's other series, such as "A Harlot's Progress", "A Rake's Progress", "Industry and Idleness", and "The Four Stages of Cruelty", it does not depict the story of an individual, but instead focuses on the society of the city.
 Hogarth intended the series to be humorous rather than instructional; the pictures do not offer a judgment on whether the rich or poor are more deserving of the viewer's sympathies: while the upper and middle classes tend to provide the focus for each scene, there are fewer of the moral comparisons seen in some of his other works.
John Reardon (8 April 193016 April 1988) was an American baritone and actor who was noted for his performances on television, including many appearances on the PBS children's television show "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood".
 Reardon was a member of the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1965 until 1977, appearing in such operas as "Carmen" and "Jenufa".
 In 1967, Reardon created the role of Orin Mannon (the equivalent of Orestes in Aeschylus' Oresteia) in the world premiere of Marvin David Levy's "Mourning Becomes Electra".
 He co-starred with Phil Silvers on Broadway in the Jule Styne musical "Do Re Mi" introducing the standard song "Make Someone Happy."
 He also appeared on Broadway in "New Faces of 1956" and Gian Carlo Menotti's "The Saint of Bleecker Street".
 He performed the role of Schaunard in the famous 1956 recording of "La Boheme" conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
 In 1960 he created a main role of Mr. McC in a nine-minute opera "Introductions and Good-Byes" by Lukas Foss, premiered on May 5, 1960 in New York City with New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.
 In 1969 he created the role of Dr. Stone in the premiere of Menotti's "Help, Help, the Globolinks!
" at the Santa Fe Opera.
 Reardon was chosen by Igor Stravinsky to sing the role of Nick Shadow on Stravinsky's second recording of his opera "The Rake's Progress".
 Reardon also appears on several of Ben Bagley's "Painted Smiles" "Revisited" albums.
Stiffelio is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.
 The origin of this was the novel “Le pasteur d’hommes”, by Émile Souvestre, which was published in 1838.
 This was adapted into the French play "Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer" by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois.
 That was in turn translated into Italian by Gaetano Vestri as "Stifellius"; this formed the basis of Piave's libretto.
The Great Escape was a music festival held at Newington Armory, located within Sydney Olympic Park that took place in 2006 and 2007.
 Initially held over the Easter long weekend for the first two events, in 2008 it was announced the festival would take place on the Labour Day weekend, however the event was cancelled 2 months from the date due to poor ticket sales .
 It evolved from the 2005 Cockatoo Island Music Festival.
 The music and other attractions run over three full days (Good Friday to Easter Sunday in 2006–07), with some patrons camping from Thursday evening to Monday morning.
 Punters could attend either for the full weekend camping, purchase a 3-day pass and commute each day or attend a single day.
 Many acts also played the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival the same weekend, however The Great Escape line-up is more diverse featuring pop, hip hop, electronic and rock acts that would not fit into a Blues and Roots line-up.
 In addition to musical acts, there is also a wide range of other features such as comedy acts, bingo and trivia, conspiracy theory talks and yoga.
 There is no immediate future for the Great Escape at this point, but organisers are confident it will be resurrected in the near future.
The Rake's Progress is an opera in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky.
 The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, is based loosely on the eight paintings and engravings "A Rake's Progress" (1733–1735) of William Hogarth, which Stravinsky had seen on 2 May 1947, in a Chicago exhibition.
Steve Thompson (born 24 April 1952) is a British songwriter and record producer who is responsible for a number of single and album chart hits and well known songs recorded by international recording artists.
 He was instrumental in setting up the influential Neat Records.
 He was particularly active as a producer during (as well as being partially responsible for), the NWOBHM years (New Wave of British Heavy Metal) During this time he produced many acts and kick-started the careers of several influential heavy metal acts including the first recordings of Newcastle band Venom ( who are widely credited with the invention of black metal) and Raven who have been credited with being hugely influential by Metallica.
The Stresa Festival Orchestra is a formation composed by young and talented musicians, coming from renewed european orchestras, calling by Gianandrea Noseda to perform every year some original production for the Stresa Festival.
 The debut of the Orchestra, on 26 August 2003 with Mozart’ "Don Giovanni", began the project of the concert performances of different operas: "Così fan tutte" (2004), "Le nozze di Figaro" (2005), "The magic flute" (2006), "La clemenza di Tito" (2007), "The Rake’s progress" (2008), "La Cenerentola" (2009), "Idomeneo" (2010).
 During the years many singers was invited such as Evgenij Akimov, Simone Alberghini, Sergej Alexashkin, Tatiana Borodina, Nicola Beller Carbone, Natale De Carolis, Mariella Devia, Barbara Frittoli, Vivica Genaux, Massimo Giordano, Andrew Kennedy, Alessandra Marianelli, Peter Mattei, Sally Matthews, Francesco Meli, Maxim Mironov, Tomislav Muzek, Laura Polverelli, Nicola Ulivieri, Franco Vassallo.

Question: The Rake's Progress and Stiffelio are both operas in how many acts?
Answer: three