United States / Jan 01, 1993
Oedipus Rex
57min
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
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 engraved in stone, and so imposing that it is immune to any popularization”.
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Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Oedipus Rex |
| Original language | Latin (LA) |
| Spoken languages | Latin |
| Status | Released |
| Release date | 1 gennaio 1993 |
| Production | Peter Gelb, Pat Jaffe |
| Writer | Jean Cocteau |
| Cinematography | Bobby Bukowski |
| Assistant directors | Julie Taymor |
| Lighting | Jean Kalman |
| Camera operators | Bobby Bukowski |
| Additional photography | Bobby Bukowski |
| Production design | George Tsypin |
| Art direction | George Tsypin |
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| Set decoration | George Tsypin |
| Costume design | Emi Wada, Reiko Kruk |
| Makeup | Reiko Kruk, Emi Wada |
| Hairstyling | Emi Wada, Reiko Kruk |
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