Name: Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex
Start: 1992-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1992-09-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Kanora Hall

Organization

Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival

Stage director

Julie Taymor

Set designer

George Tsypin

Costume designer

Emi Wada

Lighting designer

Jean Kalman

Video designer

Bobby Bukowski

Make-up artist

Reiko Kruk

Choreographer

Suzushi Hanayagi

Spoken

Kayoko Shiraishi

The narrator

Mezzo-soprano

Jessye Norman

Jocasta

Tenor

Philip Langridge

Oedipus

Bass-baritone

Bryn Terfel

Creon

Bass

Harry Peeters

Tiresias

Singer

Min Tanaka

Oedipus ( Dancer )

Chorus master

Shin Sekiya

Conductor

Seiji Ozawa

Orchestra

Saito Kinen Orchestra

Others

Tokyo Opera Singers

Shin-Yu Kai

Ballet

Saito Kinen Festival Dancers

Latin

Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex

Okaya

Japan

Kanora Hall

A masterful Japanese production featuring Julie Taymor’s costumes and image-rich sets (worthy of Chéreau or Wieland Wagner!), Seiji Ozawa’s direction, and an impressive vocal cast (a stunning Jessye Norman as Jocasta, the tenor Philip Langridge as Oedipus, Bryn Terfel as Creon). “We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics” affirms the soprano – a particularly big responsibility for this adaptation of the Greek tragedy in which the value of words did not escape the Russian composer.  

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”. A narrator outlines the plot for us: when Oedipus, King of Thebes and unlucky descendant of Laïos, discovers his double crime of patricide and incest, he gouges out his eyes, and Jocasta, widow and accomplice in the crime of incest with her son, hangs herself… The opera-oratorio is written for voice, narrator, soloist, and men’s choir, and received its 1927 premiere in Paris under the baton of the composer himself!

The plot of Stravinsky's hour-long opera-oratorio is perfectly clear without consulting a libretto. This telling of the tragedy of King Oedipus features Bryn Terfel and several other artists before they rose to prominence. Alongside the radiant Harry Peeters and Jessye Norman's Jocaste, it features impressive archaic visual worlds, a Japanese Butoh dancer, and giant puppets. An exceptionally thrilling staging!

Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex: Oedipus rex Stravinsky

Public

Oedipus Rex

Ingliż

Spanjol

Franċiż

Approved

Instrumentalist

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

Oboist

hornist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Harper

Saxophonist

Trombonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Composer

Librettist

Dancer

Actor

Dramaturge

Translator

Sound designer

Repetiteur

Makeup artist

Executive producer

Hairstylist

Other

Stage Manager

Choir

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Contralto

Soprano

Baritone

Countertenor

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

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A masterful Japanese production featuring Julie Taymor’s costumes and image-rich sets (worthy of Chéreau or Wieland Wagner!), Seiji Ozawa’s direction, and an impressive vocal cast (a stunning Jessye Norman as Jocasta, the tenor Philip Langridge as Oedipus, Bryn Terfel as Creon). “We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics” affirms the soprano – a particularly big responsibility for this adaptation of the Greek tragedy in which the value of words did not escape the Russian composer.

English

Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex by Stravinsky, Minn (1992/1992), Immexxi minn Julie Taymor,, Surmast Direttur Seiji Ozawa, Kanora Hall, Okaya, Japan

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