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Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex

January 1, 1993
57 minutes
Julie Taymor
Music

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”.

Movie Details

Release Date

January 1, 1993

Runtime

57 minutes

Director

Julie Taymor

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