Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms

‘A potent theatrical experience.’ - The New Yorker  

By Igor Stravinsky

With the Sydney Symphony and Sydney Philharmonia Choirs

Conductor Joana Carneiro, Director Peter Sellars

With Rodrick Dixon, Ryan McKinny, Yvonne Kenny, Daniel Montenegro, Paula Arundell & Elma Kris  

The music centrepiece of the 2010 Festival, this rarely-performed double bill of Stravinsky masterworks features an epic staging by internationally acclaimed director Peter Sellars.

Sellars’ production, created for a dramatically reconfigured Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, is brutal, visceral and starkly unadorned apart from seven magnificent thrones, created by Ethiopian artist Elias Sime to represent the main characters in the tragedy.

Last staged in Sydney over 30 years ago, Oedipus Rex is musically dazzling from its first explosive chorus to its violent, predestined conclusion. This telling balances the bleakness of Oedipus' death with the redemptive chorus of Symphony of Psalms, allowing the myth to end in transfiguration and peace.

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