Oedipus Rex (1993)
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
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Jessye Norman as Jocasta |
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Philip Langridge as Oedipus |
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Bryn Terfel as Creon |
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Harry Peeters as Tiresias |
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Min Tanaka as Dancer (Oedipus) |
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Kayoko Shiraishi as Narrator |
| Directing | Julie Taymor | Director |
| Directing | Julie Taymor | Stage Director |
| Art | George Tsypin | Set Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Emi Wada | Costume Designer |
| Lighting | Jean Kalman | Lighting Design |
| Camera | Bobby Bukowski | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Reiko Kruk | Makeup Artist |
| Crew | Suzushi Hanayagi | Choreographer |
| Writing | Jean Cocteau | Writer |
| Production | Peter Gelb | Producer |
| Production | Pat Jaffe | Producer |
