Oedipus Rex (1993)
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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Cast
Jessye Norman
as Jocasta
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Jessye Norman (September 15, 1945 – September 30, 2019) was an American opera singer and recitalist. A dramatic soprano, Norman was associated in particular with...
Philip Langridge
as Oedipus
Bryn Terfel
as Creon
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Harry Peeters
as Tiresias
Min Tanaka
as Dancer (Oedipus)
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Director
Julie Taymor