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Oedipus Rex

Title: Oedipus Rex [videorecording] / Igor Stravinsky ; a production of CAMI Video and NHK in association with Channel 4, Czech TV, DR, NOS, ORF, Philips Classics, S4C, Thirteen/WNET [and] ZDF ; produced by Peter Gelb and Pat Jaffe ; stage production and film directed by Julie Taymor.
Author: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Publication: [Netherlands] : Philips ; New York, NY : Manufactured for and marketed by Polygram Video, Inc., p1994, c1992.

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Moving image	Use in library	*LVD 26 (F) Program notes on file	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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Description

1 videodisc (ca. 58 min.) : sd., col.; 12 in.

Series Statement

Philips video classics

Uniform Title

Oedipus Rex

Alternative Title

Oedipus Rex

Subject

Operas

Note

Opera-oratorio in two acts.
Libretto by Jean Cocteau, after Sophocles; Latin translation by Jean Daniélou.
"From the Saito Kinen Festival, Matsumoto, Japan."
Program notes in English, French, German, and Italian ([4] p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Credits (note)

Director of photography, Bobby Bukowski; choreographer, Suzushi Hanayagi; set designer, George Tsypin; costume designer, Emi Wada; masks and sculpture designer, Julie Taymor.

System Details (note)

Laser disc, NTSC, extended play CLV, CX encoded, stereo.

Language (note)

Sung in Latin with English subtitles based on the English translation by e.e. cummings. Plot synopsis spoken in Japanese with English subtitles prior to each act.

Call Number

*LVD 26 (F)

OCLC

30698641
NYPG99-F821

Author

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.

Title

Oedipus Rex [videorecording] / Igor Stravinsky ; a production of CAMI Video and NHK in association with Channel 4, Czech TV, DR, NOS, ORF, Philips Classics, S4C, Thirteen/WNET [and] ZDF ; produced by Peter Gelb and Pat Jaffe ; stage production and film directed by Julie Taymor.

Imprint

[Netherlands] : Philips ; New York, NY : Manufactured for and marketed by Polygram Video, Inc., p1994, c1992.

Series

Philips video classics

Performer

Jessye Norman (Jocasta) ; Philip Langridge (Oedipus) ; Min Tanaka (Oedipus dancer) ; Bryn Terfel (Creon) ; Harry Peeters (Tiresias) ; Robert Swensen (Shepherd) ; Michio Tatara (Messenger) ; Kayoko Shiraishi (Speaker) ; Shinyu-kai Chorus ; Tokyo Opera Singers ; Saito Kinen Festival Dancers ; Saito Kinen Orchestra ; Seiji Ozawa, conductor.

Credits

Director of photography, Bobby Bukowski; choreographer, Suzushi Hanayagi; set designer, George Tsypin; costume designer, Emi Wada; masks and sculpture designer, Julie Taymor.

System Details

Laser disc, NTSC, extended play CLV, CX encoded, stereo.

Language

Sung in Latin with English subtitles based on the English translation by e.e. cummings. Plot synopsis spoken in Japanese with English subtitles prior to each act.

Added Author

Gelb, Peter.

Jaffe, Pat.

Taymor, Julie, 1952- director.

Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963. Librettist

Norman, Jessye. Performer

Langridge, Philip, 1939-2010. Performer

Tanaka, Min, dancer.

Terfel, Bryn. Performer

Peeters, Harry. Performer

Swensen, Robert. Performer

Tatara, Michio. Performer

Shiraishi, Kayako. Performer

Hanayagi, Suzushi, choreographer.

Ozawa, Seiji, 1935-2024. Conductor

Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.

Tokyo Opera Singers. Performer

Shinyu-kai Chorus. Performer

Saito Kinen Festival Dancers. Dancer

Saitō Kinen Ōkesutora. Performer

CAMI Video (Firm)

Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai.

Saito Kinen Festival.

Publisher No.

440 070 264-1 Philips

Research Call Number

*LVD 26 (F) Program notes on file.

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