“Oedipus Rex” is about as far from a new work as possible, having first been performed around 1,600 years ago.
Maybe they should just call it "Eddie.
With its brave double bill of Bluebeard’s Castle and Oedipus Rex, WNO shows a sense of adventure amid its straitened circumstances .
Gibbins’ claustrophobic staging of Bartók’s opera of dark symbolism is paired with his brand new production of Stravinsky’s psychological drama .
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The actor and author, on board for the company's June 6 performance, believes Oedipus has been unjustly maligned ("very unfair of Freud") and recalls working with Tilda Swinton in college.
Only the insensate among us can dwell on the Book of Job without feeling horror at the suffering this man endured as the result of a divine wager.
Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex” predates us by approximately 2,500 years.