Oedipus Rex
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”.
Top Billed Cast
Jessye Norman
Jocasta
Philip Langridge
Oedipus
Bryn Terfel
Creon
Harry Peeters
Tiresias
Min Tanaka
Dancer (Oedipus)
Featured Crew
Julie Taymor
Director
Julie Taymor
Stage Director
George Tsypin
Set Designer
Emi Wada
Costume Designer
Jean Kalman
Lighting Design
Bobby Bukowski
Director of Photography
Reiko Kruk
Makeup Artist
Suzushi Hanayagi
Choreographer
Jean Cocteau
Writer
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