Oedipus Rex
1993 · 0h 57m · Music
Genres: Music
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 Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin—a language that, according the composer, “is not dead but…
Director: Julie Taymor
Writers: Jean Cocteau
Cinematography: Bobby Bukowski