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 ...

But real or not, we have all been shaped by myths like these. Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, performed by Scottish Opera, is at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (scottishopera.org.uk), on ...

Though mythical in origin, “Oedipus Rex” continues to resonate because of how Sophocles handles its theme — with restraint, clarity and a mature sense of resolution. When the horrifying truth is ...

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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 ...

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