will leave the theatre convinced again that Aristotle could not have picked a better paradigm of elemental power and dramatic impact than Oedipus Rex. To take this production on its own terms ...

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 ...

Typical of the second are a pair of radio skits, one a version of “Oedipus Rex” that has Oedipus saying plaintively to Jocasta, “Look, sweetheart, you’re my mother,” the other a domestic ...

A curse has taken a hold of Thebes. Oedipus is the current King of Thebes, having solved the riddle of the Sphinx, and is determined to help the people. He married Jocasta, Queen of Thebes and has ...

Laurence Olivier as Oedipus, in the dressing room before a performance of Sophocles's Oedipus Rex, 1946 Credit: Popperfoto/Getty We all know, or think we know, the story: man inadvertently murders ...

Immersive opera such as this can be tricky to pull off, but the magic of Roxana Haines’s new production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex lies in its simplicity, letting the material organically weave ...

Silly concept production, not especially well sung, Scottish Chamber Orchestra the best thing about it,” he said.Oh well.

Audiences have a chance to experience opera up close in Scottish Opera’s promenade performance of Igor Stravinsky and Jean-Cocteau’s neo-classical take on Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus Rex in ...

We will use Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Ovid’s Metamorphoses ... This course will examine the rich offerings of comics and graphic novels using race as their themes. We will study works ranging from the ...

Director Srinidhi Bengaluru, who comes from a theatre background, is inspired by the Greek play Oedipus Rex, translated into ... as a reminder of the universal themes that bind us all – love ...

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 ...