Scottish Opera’s production of Igor Stravinsky and Jean Cocteau’s Oedipus Rex – which is simultaneously accessible, humanistic and, even, humorous – strives impressively to be the kind of ...

By Jordan Riefe Winning the prize for first post-pandemic indoor stage performance, L.A. Opera will present composer Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex for a single matinee June 6 at the Dorothy ...

Fortunately my tardiness proved serendipitous, as being in almost touching distance of the orchestra and having the chorus – a 100+ strong group of members of Scottish Opera's professional ... stories ...

Scottish Opera has turned towards something altogether more ’difficult’ in Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, with a Latin libretto, translated by Abbé Jean Daniélou from Jean Cocteau’s ...

Scottish Opera stage director Roxana Haines - and members of her choir - discuss the challenges and rewards of staging a Stravinsky opera in The National Museum of Scotland In the 2006 fantasy ...

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Oedipus Rex is a perfect mystery-box play, balancing horror and humour, with each scene bringing new revelations, ratcheting up tensions around who Oedipus actually is. Tension builds about who he ...

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