Oedipus Rex

Igor Stravinsky

• Film description from The Internet Movie Databaase
  

• The Saito Kinen Orchestra

• Grove Dictionary of Music Search or browse for more information on the opera and members of the production. MHC Campus Only

• Citation from MHC/4 College Library Catalog:

  Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963, Librettist. Oedipus Rex.
  Oedipus Rex [videorecording] / Igor Stravinsky ; produced by Peter Gelb and Pat Jaffe ;
  stage production and film directed by Julie Taymor.
  [Baarn, Netherlands] : Philips ; New York : manufactured for and marketed by Polygram Video, p1994, c1992.
  Philips video classics. 1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in.
  Libretto after Sophocles by Jean Cocteau, Latin translation by Jean Danielou, Japanese translation by Kazuko Matsuoka.
  Sung in Latin, spoken in Japanese with English subtitles by e.e. cummings.
  Jessye Norman, soprano ; Philip Langridge, tenor ; Min Tanaka, Oedipus dancer ; Shinyu-Kai Chorus ; Tokyo Opera Singers ; Saito Kinen Festival Dancers ; Saito Kinen Orchestra ; Seiji Ozawa, conductor. Choreographer, Suzushi Hanayagi ; set designer, George Tsypin ; costume designer, Emi Wada.
  

 

• Igor Stravinsky (Composer)

  • "Igor Stravinsky" Internet Public Library
    Music History 102: a Guide to Western Composers and their music. Designed, compiled and created by Robert Sherrane, Cataloging librarian; The Juilliard School, New York

  • The Stravinsky Page
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  • Photo Gallery
    Karadar Classical Music World

  • Conducting a performance of 'Oedipus Rex', with Jean Cocteau, seated far left.
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• Jean Cocteau (Librettist)

  • "Cocteau, Jean" Encyclopaedia Britannica Online MHC Campus Only
    

  • The Jean Cocteau WebSite
    

  • Jean Cocteau à l'epoque de la grande roue Oil on canvas, 1914
    Musée National a'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
    

  • Portrait of Jean Cocteau, 1916 [click to enlarge]
    Amadeo Modigliani
    

  • Portrait of Jean Cocteau, oil on canvas, 1916
    Mojzesz Kisling
    Musee du Petit Palais in Geneva
    

  • Ritratto di Jean Cocteau and more
    Jacques Emile Blanche
    
    

• E.E. Cummings (English Translator/sub-titles)

  • The Academy of American Poets

  • Spring: The Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society
    
    

• Seiji Ozawa (Conductor)

  • Sony Classical

  • The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
    
    

• Julie Taymor (Stage Director)

  • Intenet Movie Database

  • Bravo Profile

  • Oberlin College Alumni News and Notes
    
    

• Philip Langridge (Oedipe)

  • Allied Artists
    
    

• Jessye Norman (Jocasta)

  • Sony Classical

  • Black Voices
    
    

• Bryn Terfel (Creon)

  • Bryn Terfel Fan Page [with link to official homepage in German]

 

• The Washington Opera - George Shirley and Shirley Verrett in 1962's Oedipus Rex.
  

 

 

 

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