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Oedipus Rex

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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…

DirectorJulie Taymor
WriterJean Cocteau
ProducersPeter Gelb·Pat Jaffe

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Cast · Directed by Julie Taymor

JNJessye Norman
Jessye Norman
Jocasta
PLPhilip Langridge
Philip Langridge
Oedipus
BTBryn Terfel
Bryn Terfel
Creon
HPHarry Peeters
Harry Peeters
Tiresias
MTMin Tanaka
Min Tanaka
Dancer (Oedipus)
KS
Kayoko Shiraishi
Narrator

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