Oedipus Rex (1993)

Oedipus Rex

1993

Music

Synopsis

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”.

Credits

Director

Julie Taymor

Cast

Bryn Terfel as Creon

Harry Peeters as Tiresias

Jessye Norman as Jocasta

Kayoko Shiraishi as Narrator

Min Tanaka as Dancer (Oedipus)

Philip Langridge as Oedipus

Crew

Suzushi Hanayagi (Choreographer)