Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
| Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) | Oedipus Rex | Libretto by Jean Cocteau, based on Sophocles' Oedipus Rex |
| Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971) | Symphony of Psalms |
Performers
| Esa-Pekka Salonen | Conductor | |
| Peter Sellars | Director | |
| Philharmonia Orchestra | ||
| Ladies of the Gustaf Sjökvists Kammarkör | ||
| Ladies of the Sofia Vokalensemble | ||
| Emily Barber | Narrator | |
| Laurel Jenkins | Dancer | |
| Katarina Dalayman | Soprano | Jocasta |
| Joseph Kaiser | Tenor | Oedipus |
| Joshua Stewart | Tenor | Shepherd |
| Sir Willard White | Bass-baritone | 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
Reviews of Oedipus Rex directed by Peter Sellars
Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, August 2017
Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, July 2016 (Français)
