Released:
1993-01-01

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”.

Director:
Julie Taymor

Runtime:
0h 57min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  Jessye Norman
  as
  Jocasta
• 
  Philip Langridge
  as
  Oedipus
• 
  Bryn Terfel
  as
  Creon
• 
  Harry Peeters
  as
  Tiresias
• 
  Min Tanaka
  as
  Dancer (Oedipus)