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”.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1993

Original language

Latin

Cast

Bryn Terfel,Philip Langridge,Jessye Norman,Min Tanaka,Harry Peeters,Kayoko Shiraishi

Director

Julie Taymor

Writer

Jean Cocteau

Producer

Peter Gelb,Pat Jaffe

Cinematography

Bobby Bukowski

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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