The read
It runs a compact 57m.
Synopsis
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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Key crew
- Julie TaymorDirector
- Jean CocteauWriter
Cast
- Jessye NormanJocasta
- Philip LangridgeOedipus
- Bryn TerfelCreon
- Harry PeetersTiresias
- Min TanakaDancer (Oedipus)
- Kayoko ShiraishiNarrator