Release Date: 1993-01-01
Overview: 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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Jessye Norman
as Jocasta
Philip Langridge
as Oedipus
Bryn Terfel
as Creon
Harry Peeters
as Tiresias
Min Tanaka
as Dancer (Oedipus)
Julie Taymor - Director
Julie Taymor - Stage Director
George Tsypin - Set Designer
Emi Wada - Costume Designer
Jean Kalman - Lighting Design
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