Thank you Reiner, George, DonB, harpy. 

I agree, the parodical nature of The Rake's Progress would make an 18th century costume party especially relevant.  I must say, Tom Rakewell wore a powdered wig at one time, in the scene when he agrees with Shadow to marry Baba the Turk - can't remember why exactly... Bad memory… and it's been only a week...
Baba the Turk was pointing at a photo album of her collectibles during her chatty monologue aria, while having breakfast with Tom near their open air pool in the Los Angeles hills on a sunny morning...
 
And I agree too about Anne’s lullaby – it is very touching.  Laura Claycomb sang it very tender and soft.  It was soothing for Tom, soothing for the mental patients, and, I must say, soothing for the whole opera house.  A very special moment: the whole audience extremely attentive, relishing in that beautiful, simple, motherly song, as if they too were seeking 'solace for tormented brains'...

Yes, but how would they do the auction scene without the junk? Oh well, I suppose we'll find out soon enough!

I liked the Hockney one too - saw it on a Glyndebourne tour I think. There's a video of it with Felicity Lott but unfortunately there seems to be some interference between the cross-hatching of the set and the frequency (?) of the television picture.