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”.
Genre: Music
Stars: Jessye Norman, Philip Langridge, Bryn Terfel, Harry Peeters, Min Tanaka, Kayoko Shiraishi
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)
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Language: Latin
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Runtime: 57 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 1993
IMDb: 10
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