movie
Oedipus Rex
TMDBJan 1, 1993
Oedipus Rex
DirectorJulie Taymor
Runtime
57m
Status
Released
Language
Latin
Country
JP
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”.
