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Igor Stravinsky, Œdipus rex, Opera-oratorio after Sophocles
- Prologue: Spectators, we present a Latin version of the opera Oedipus Rex
- I: Caedit nos pestis
- I: Liberi, vos liberato
- I: This is Creon, brother-in-law of Oedipus
- I: Respondit Deus
- I: Oedipus questions the fountain of truth
- I: Dicere non possum
- I: Gloria!
- II: The dispute of the princes attracts the attention of Jocasta
- II: Gloria (Reprise)
- II: Nonn' erubescite, reges
- II: Ne probentur oracular
- II: Ego senem cecidi
- II: The witness to the murder comes out of the shadows
- II: Adest omniscius pastor
- II: Nonne monstru rescituri
- II: And now you are going to hear that famous monologue
- II: Divum Jocastae caput mortuum!
- II: Ecce! Regem Oedipoda

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opera Stravinsky's Œdipus rex Julie Taymor (stage director), Seiji Ozawa (conductor) – With Jessye Norman (Yocasta), Bryn Terfel (Creon), Philip Langridge (Oedipus)...

Julie Taymor (stage director), Seiji Ozawa (conductor) – With Jessye Norman (Yocasta), Bryn Terfel (Creon), Philip Langridge (Oedipus)...

Stravinsky's Œdipus rex Julie Taymor (stage director), Seiji Ozawa (conductor) – With Jessye Norman (Yocasta), Bryn Terfel (Creon), Philip Langridge (Oedipus)...

About

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.

Julie Taymor | Stage director, Masks, Sculptor
George Tsypin | Set designer
Emi Wada | Costumes
Jean Kalman | Lighting designer
Bobby Bukowski | Director of photography
Reiko Kruk | Make-up artist
Suzushi Hanayagi | Choreographer

Kayoko Shiraishi | Narrator

Jessye Norman | Jocasta
Philip Langridge | Oedipus
Bryn Terfel | Creon
Harry Peeters | Tiresias

Min Tanaka | Dancer (Oedipus)

Saito Kinen Festival Dancers

Tokyo Opera Singers
Shin-Yu Kai Chorus
Shin Sekiya | Chorus director

Saito Kinen Orchestra
Seiji Ozawa

Program

Igor Stravinsky, Œdipus rex, Opera-oratorio after Sophocles
- Prologue: Spectators, we present a Latin version of the opera Oedipus Rex
- I: Caedit nos pestis
- I: Liberi, vos liberato
- I: This is Creon, brother-in-law of Oedipus
- I: Respondit Deus
- I: Oedipus questions the fountain of truth
- I: Dicere non possum
- I: Gloria!
- II: The dispute of the princes attracts the attention of Jocasta
- II: Gloria (Reprise)
- II: Nonn' erubescite, reges
- II: Ne probentur oracular
- II: Ego senem cecidi
- II: The witness to the murder comes out of the shadows
- II: Adest omniscius pastor
- II: Nonne monstru rescituri
- II: And now you are going to hear that famous monologue
- II: Divum Jocastae caput mortuum!
- II: Ecce! Regem Oedipoda