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”.
Year 1993
Studio
Director Julie Taymor
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)
Popularity 1
Language Latin
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