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Opera in four acts - 1936 Music by : Georges Enesco Libretto by Edmond Fleg after Sophocle
In 1909, after attending a performance of OEdipus Rex at the Comédie-Française, George Enescu hastened to transcribe the first bars of his one and only opera. Sophocles’ play had the effect of an electroshock on the Romanian composer, spurring him to begin work on his score before he even had a libretto. The completed work would ultimately have its world premiere at the Paris Opera in 1936. The influences of his teacher Fauré, of Stravinsky, Debussy and Romania’s ancestral musical traditions all fuelled an orchestral and vocal composition of unparalleled originality. Surprisingly, despite receiving a rapturous reception, the work was rarely staged at opera houses during the 20th century. For his Paris Opera debut, Wajdi Mouawad evokes the life of OEdipus – the man unaware of his own identity – in a continuum of organic, vegetal, ethereal and aquatic images
Christopher Maltman : Œdipe Clive Bayley : Tirésias Brain Mulligan : Créon Vincent Ordonneau : le berger Laurent Naouri : le grand prêtre Nicolas Cavallier : Phorbas / Le Veilleur Paris National Opera Orchestra & Chorus Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Paris Nation Opera Children’s Chorus
Conductor : Ingo Metzmacher Director : Wajdi Mouawad Set design : Emmanuel Clolus Costume design : Emmanuelle Thomas Lighting : Eric Champoux Video : Stephane Pougnand Dramaturgy : Charlotte Farcet Chorus master : Ching-Lien Wu
French
English
Production compagny : François Roussillon & associés
Running Time : 155'
Production Year : 2021
Distribution compagny : Telmondis Distribution
Video Format : HD