Movie

Oedipus Rex (1993)

• January 1, 1993
• 57m

• Music

“Oedipus Rex”

Overview

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”.

Director

Julie Taymor

Writers

Jean Cocteau

Starring

Jessye Norman, Philip Langridge, Bryn Terfel