A blazing Oedipe kicks off Bucharest’s Enescu Festival

By Aksel Tollåli, 04 September 2017

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“seductively lyrical and savagely angular”

Reviewed at Palace Hall (Sala Palatului), Bucharest on 2 September 2017

Enescu, Œdipe

Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor

Paul Gay, Œdipe

Sir Willard White, Tirésias

Christopher Purves, Créon

Graham Clark, Shepherd

Mischa Schelomianski, High Priest

Insung Sim, Phorbas

Maxim Mikhailov, Old Man

Boris Pinkhasovich, Thésée

Markus Vlad Budoiu, Laios

Ruxandra Donose, Jocaste

Ildikó Komlósi, La Sphinge (The Sphinx)

Gabriela Iştoc, Antigone

Dame Felicity Palmer, Mérope

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Choir of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra

Romanian Radio Children's Choir

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Aksel Tollåli

Aksel is currently studying towards a degree in musicology at the University of Oslo. At the moment he is an exchange student at Goldsmiths College in London. He is also a choral singer and a trombonist. His musical interests include 20th-cenury French music, Baroque opera and the music of Richard Strauss.