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Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms – Sydney Festival
This rarely-performed double bill of Stravinsky masterworks, Oedipus Rex and Symphony of Psalms, features an epic staging by internationally acclaimed director Peter Sellars.
Sellars’ production, created for a reconfigured Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, is brutally dramatic, 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.
In her Australian debut, rising star Joana Carneiro conducts the Sydney Symphony, 120 members of the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and a dynamic American/ Australian cast of soloists including Rodrick Dixon, Ryan McKinny and Daniel Montenegro reprising their roles from the LA Philharmonic production, Yvonne Kenny as Jocasta, Paula Arundell as Antigone/Narrator and Bangarra Dance Theatre’s Elma Kris as Ismene.
Sung in Latin with English surtitles.
For the production of Oedipus Rex stalls front row is yet to be confirmed due to the size of the orchestra pit.
Venue: The Concert Hall
Dates: 28th-30th January, 2010
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes including interval
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