Andrea Ranzi Oedipus Rex
Bologna, Comunale Nouveau
About the Event
Myth as monument. An actor, speaking in the language of the audience, wanders among musical numbers tracing Sophocles’Oedipus Rex. A contemporary voice among eternal elements, in Latin, a lingua franca, ancient and universal. The spoken word and the music. We are in France, at the end of the 1920s, and Igor Stravinsky no longer plays with quotations as he had done in Pulcinella, but creates a kind of ideal past in which the narrator is inspired by the Baroque tradition of the oratorio and constitutes a very modern alienating element between mythical action and present time, between theater and reality. The whole work is two‐faced, as well as bilingual (by Jean Cocteau with Latin translations by Jean Daniélou, theologian and literary scholar), imbued with a rhythmic power that makes it as ancient and solemn as it is modern and vital, marble and pulsating. Murderer of his father, groom of his mother, annihilated by self‐discovery, Oedipus in his harried quest continues to arouse pity and terror as in classical tragedy.
Practical Information
You must print out your order confirmation and show it at the box office to collect your regular ticket, starting one hour before the start of the performance, at the Teatro Comunale Nouveau at Piazza della Costituzione, 4.
Program
- Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky – Oedipus Rex
Cast / Production
Oedipe Paolo Antognetti
Créon/The Messenger Claudio Otelli
Tirésias Sorin Coliban
The Pastor Cornel Frey
Narrator Gabriele Lavia
Playback Teresa Romano
Director Gabriele Lavia
Conductor Oksana Lyniv
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Bologna
Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Address
Comunale Nouveau, Piazza della Costituzione 4, Bologna, Italy — Google Maps
