The element of irony or even parody was not easily removed even in the case of a work so high-minded and serious as Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927) based on Jean Cocteau's ...

This ground-breaking ballet score revealed Stravinsky’s innate theatrical sense, which subsequently manifested itself in all manner of colourful stage works such as Mavra, Oedipus Rex ...

Scottish Opera stage director Roxana Haines - and members of her choir - discuss the challenges and rewards of staging a Stravinsky opera in The National Museum of Scotland In the 2006 fantasy ...

In Oedipus Tex, the mathematician-composer P.D.Q. Bach’s 1990 comedic answer to Stravinsky’s tragic oratorio ... you end up with Oedipus Rex, Macbeth, or the Trump administration.

Festival Theatre, 16-18 August Oedipus Rex From hot-headed excess to cool detachment: Stravinsky’s 1927 Oedipux Rex is barely an opera at all, but instead an indefinable mix of narration ...