
Oedipus Rex
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January 1, 1993
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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”.
Featured Crew
Julie Taymor
Director
Julie Taymor
Stage Director
George Tsypin
Set Designer
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Cast

Jessye Norman
Jocasta

Philip Langridge
Oedipus

Bryn Terfel
Creon

Harry Peeters
Tiresias
Min Tanaka
Dancer (Oedipus)