Oedipus Rex : opera-oratorio in two acts after Sophocles

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Label

Oedipus Rex : opera-oratorio in two acts after Sophocles

Title remainder

opera-oratorio in two acts after Sophocles

Statement of responsibility

production, NOS in association with RM Arts and LWT ; producer and designer, Harry Wich ; television director, Hans Hulscher ; music, Igor Stravinsky ; text Jean Cocteau. The flood : a musical play, based on the book of Genesis and the York and Chester miracle plays (1430-1500) / a co-production of NOS TV/Stichtung Muzt ; produced by John McClure, Milka Henriques de Castro ; designed and directed by Jaap Drupsteen ; Igor Stravinsky [music] ; text chosen and arranged by Robert Craft

Title variation

• Oedipus Rex and The flood
• Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and The flood

Contributor

• Concertgebouworkest
• Home Vision (Firm)
• London Weekend Television (Firm)
• NVC Arts International
• Nederlandse Omroep Stichting
• RM Arts (Firm)
• Stichting Muzt
• Cabot, Sebastian
• Castro, Milka Henriques de
• Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
• Courbois, Kitty
• Craft, Robert
• Daniëls, Pauline
• Desderi, Claudio
• Drupsteen, Jaap, 1942-
• Haitink, Bernard, 1929-
• Lancaster, Elsa, 1902-
• McClure, John
• Oliver, Robert
• Palmer, Felicity
• Reardon, John
• Robinson, Richard
• Rosenshein, Neil
• Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
• Vlaanderen, Rudi van
• Wich, Harri
• Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Subject

• Oedipus, (Greek mythological figure) -- Drama
• Operas
• Televised operas

Genre

• Operas
• Televised operas
• Drama

Language

eng

Related

• Flood

Cataloging source

VA@

Characteristic

videorecording

PerformerNote

• Cast (1st work): Neil Rosenshein (Oedipus), Felicity Palmer (Jocaste), Claudio Desderi (Creon), Anton Scharinger (Tiresias, Messenger), Justin Lavender (Shepherd), Alan Howard (Speaker)
• Credits (1st work): Performed by Concertgebouw Orchestra, N.O.S. Men's Choir, conductor, Bernard Haitink
• Cast (2nd work): Voices: Laurence Harvey (Narrator), Sebastian Cabot (Noah), Elsa Lancaster (Noah's Wife), Paul Tripp (Caller), John Reardon and Robert Oliver (God), Richard Robinson (Lucifer); Actors: Rudi van Vlaanderen (Noah), Kitty Courbois (Noah's Wife), Rudolf Grasman, Emile Linsson and Carel Willink (God), Pauline Daniels (Lucifer)
• Credits (2nd work): Camera, Frans Jan Dupont; concept, Wilbert Bank, Jaap Drupsteen, Sieuwert Verster; drama direction, Wilbert Bank, Edwin de Vries; music performed by Columbia Symphony Orhcestra and Chorus, conducted by Robert Craft

Runtime

90

Target audience

general

Technique

animation and live action