Movie: Oedipus Rex

Top 6 Billed Cast

Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman

Jocasta

Philip Langridge
Philip Langridge

Oedipus

Bryn Terfel
Bryn Terfel

Creon

Harry Peeters
Harry Peeters

Tiresias

Min Tanaka
Min Tanaka

Dancer (Oedipus)

Kayoko Shiraishi
Kayoko Shiraishi

Narrator

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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”.

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    1993-01-01

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    Oedipus Rex

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  • Languages:

    Latin