Edinburgh International Festival director Nicola Benedetti conceives of her 2024 programme as a series of “rituals that unite us”. Scottish Opera’s production of Igor Stravinsky and Jean Cocteau’s ...

“Beware of oracles,” sings a character in Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex.” The warnings and revelations of Greek tragedy register with considerable impact in Stravinsky’s 1927 opera-oratorio, which sets ...

Stravinsky based Oedipus Rex on the ancient Greek tragedy of the same name by Sophoclesyes, the one where Oedipus unknowingly kills his own father and marries his mother. The 1927 opera is a highly ...

Adam Larsen has a most interesting job, although not one that’s easy to define. Trained as a cinematographer, currently he goes by the more nebulous "creative director," which more or less means ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Chances are you’ve never seen a staging of Stravinsky’s ‘Oedipus Rex’ ...

The classic Greek tragedy "Oedipus rex" by Sophocles, perhaps the earliest and most dramatic example of the "big reveal" in theater, formed the basis of an opera-oratorio written by Igor Stravinsky in ...