Movie

Oedipus Rex

1993 0h 57m Released

Music

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”.

Cast

Jessye Norman Jocasta Philip Langridge Oedipus Bryn Terfel Creon Harry Peeters Tiresias Min Tanaka Dancer (Oedipus) K Kayoko Shiraishi Narrator