Official poster of Oedipus Rex
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Movie ‱ 1993

Oedipus Rex

“Oedipus Rex”

Music
57 min

Synopsis

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 AbbĂ© Jean DaniĂ©lou 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”.

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Release date 1993-01-01
Original language LA
Status Released
Popularity 0