
Oedipus Rex 1993
"Oedipus Rex"
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
Cast

Jessye Norman
Jocasta

Philip Langridge
Oedipus

Bryn Terfel
Creon

Harry Peeters
Tiresias

Min Tanaka
Dancer (Oedipus)
Kayoko Shiraishi
Narrator