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From seeing the Brussels premiere of Alex Ollé and Valentina Carrasco’s production of Oedipe for La Fura dels Baus, also given under Leo Hussain’s baton, my abiding memory is of flashes of inspiration ...

00:01, Wed, Jun 1, 2016 Updated: 22:45, Wed, Jun 1, 2016 Hugely admired and much in demand in his own country as pianist, violinist and conductor, the originality and energy of his compositions was ...

A superb cast ignites Enescu’s neglected 1936 epic in its UK premiere. And Philip Venables makes Sarah Kane’s final work sing The opening bars of Oedipe, questing and visionary, might be by Bruckner.

There's a big story to be told here: not just that of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, as in Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio, but its unfortunate protagonist as the subject of the original Sphinx's riddle ...

The anti-Freudian Oedipus opera may not flawless, but this performance with the LPO was a superb and beautiful achievement The London Philharmonic opened its new season with a concert performance of ...

A new production of this little-heard Romanian piece shows that neglected doesn’t necessarily mean second-rate when it comes to opera. By Alexandra Coghlan In the opening visual sequence of Oedipe, ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Oedipus legend casts a long shadow over theatre and film from Dryden and Voltaire to Cocteau and Pasolini. Opera ...