(Oedipus Rex)

Content: Impressed by Jean Cocteau’s rewrite of Antigone, Stravinsky asked the poet for an adaptation of Oedipus Rex. The resulting libretto brings together the key scenes of Sophocles’s tragedy translated by the Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin—a language that, according the composer, “is not dead but engraved in stone, and so imposing that it is immune to any popularization”.

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Genres:

Music

Runtime:

57 minutes

Year:

1993

Directors:

Julie Taymor

Actors:

Jocasta

Oedipus

Creon

Tiresias

Dancer (Oedipus)

Crews:

Director

Stage Director

Set Designer

Costume Designer

Lighting Design