Name: Oedipus Rex + Lilacs
Start: 2022-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Verizon Hall

Organization

Tenor

William Burden

Ödipus

Mezzosopran

Rehanna Thelwell

Jocaste

Bass-Bariton

Mark S. Doss

Creon

Bass

Jonathan Lemalu

Tiresias

Gesprochen

Charlotte Blake Alston

Sprecher

Dirigat

Corrado Rovaris

Ethan Burck

Ein Hirte

Sopran

Tiffany Townsend

Soprano

Chordirektion

Elizabeth Braden

Ein Bote

Opera Philadelphia

Others

Opera Philadelphia Chorus

Orchestra

Opera Philadelphia Orchestra

Latein

Englisch

Oedipus Rex + Lilacs

Philadelphia

Vereinigte Staaten

Verizon Hall

Oedipus Rex + Lilacs: Oedipus rex (+1 More)

Public

Oedipus Rex

Lilacs

Genehmigt

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Enter Thebes…a city in crisis whose denizens are looking to one man for salvation: Oedipus Rex. But how can this man save anything when he’s unknowingly cursed by the gods? Can he escape his dark fate?

The ancient Greek tragedy of the man who killed his father and married his mother is brought into the 20th century with a searing score by Igor Stravinsky in the opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex. Jack Mulroney Music Director Corrado Rovaris leads the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus, with soloists William Burden, Rehanna Thelwell, and Mark S. Doss.

Before watching Oedipus fall, reflect on the loss of other guiding stars with Lilacs, George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning meditation on grief and remembrance. This rarely-performed piece is a setting of Whitman’s poem, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” written after Lincoln’s assassination. In Lilacs, Walker commemorates famed Black tenor Roland Hayes. Rising soprano Tiffany Townsend performs as the soloist.

English

Oedipus Rex + Lilacs by Stravinsky, Walker, George, Fr. 21 Jan. 2022, Ab (2022/2022), Dirigat Corrado Rovaris, Verizon Hall, Philadelphia, Vereinigte Staaten

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