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01/01/1993 Music 0h 57m
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Oedipus Rex

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”.

  1. Julie Taymor

    Director

  2. Jean Cocteau

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Jessye Norman

    Jocasta

  2. Philip Langridge

    Oedipus

  3. Bryn Terfel

    Creon

  4. Harry Peeters

    Tiresias

  5. Min Tanaka

    Dancer (Oedipus)

  6. Kayoko Shiraishi

    Narrator

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Full Cast & Crew

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Status
Released

Original Language
Latin

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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