Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, Vereinigtes Königreich
Datum/Zeit in London Zeitzone
Programm
Strawinsky, Igor (1882-1971) | Oedipus Rex | Libretto von Jean Cocteau, based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex |
Strawinsky, Igor (1882-1971) | Psalmensymphonie |
Darsteller
Esa-Pekka Salonen | Musikalische Leitung | |
Peter Sellars | Regie | |
Philharmonia Orchestra | ||
Ladies of the Gustaf Sjökvists Kammarkör | ||
Ladies of the Sofia Vokalensemble | ||
Emily Barber | Erzähler*in | |
Laurel Jenkins | Tänzer | |
Katarina Dalayman | Sopran | Jocasta |
Joseph Kaiser | Tenor | Oedipus |
Joshua Stewart | Tenor | Shepherd |
Sir Willard White | Bassbariton | Creon, Messenger, Tiresias |
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Monumental. Formal. Stylised. To a text by Cocteau derived from Sophocles and translated back into Latin, Stravinsky's Oedipus rex is a chilling retelling of the tragic myth. Presented here in a semi-staged production from director Peter Sellars, Oedipus rexis a work that abandons sentiment, it confronts the spectator with the true horror of the 'infernal machine' of fate. The Latin Psalms, too, seemingly so ancient, so distant, speak here of the tragedy of exile through a music of electrifying austerity and intensity.
In co-production with Festival d’Aix-en-Provence
Rezensionen von Oedipus Rex inszeniert von Peter Sellars
Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, August 2017 (English)
Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, Juli 2016 (Français)