Name: Oedipus Rex + Lilacs
Start: 2022-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Verizon Hall

Organization

Chanteur

Ténor

William Burden

Œdipe

Mezzo-soprano

Rehanna Thelwell

Jocaste

Baryton-basse

Mark S. Doss

Créon

Basse

Jonathan Lemalu

Tirésias

Rôle parlant

Charlotte Blake Alston

L'Orateur

Direction d'orchestre

Corrado Rovaris

Ethan Burck

Berger

Soprano

Tiffany Townsend

Direction de choeur

Elizabeth Braden

Le Messanger

Opera Philadelphia

Others

Opera Philadelphia Chorus

Orchestra

Opera Philadelphia Orchestra

latin

anglais

Oedipus Rex + Lilacs

Philadelphie

États-Unis

Verizon Hall

Oedipus Rex + Lilacs: Oedipus rex (+1 More)

Public

Œdipe roi

Lilacs

Valide

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Enter Thebes…a city in crisis whose denizens are looking to one man for salvation: Oedipus Rex. But how can this man save anything when he’s unknowingly cursed by the gods? Can he escape his dark fate?

The ancient Greek tragedy of the man who killed his father and married his mother is brought into the 20th century with a searing score by Igor Stravinsky in the opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex. Jack Mulroney Music Director Corrado Rovaris leads the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus, with soloists William Burden, Rehanna Thelwell, and Mark S. Doss.

Before watching Oedipus fall, reflect on the loss of other guiding stars with Lilacs, George Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning meditation on grief and remembrance. This rarely-performed piece is a setting of Whitman’s poem, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” written after Lincoln’s assassination. In Lilacs, Walker commemorates famed Black tenor Roland Hayes. Rising soprano Tiffany Townsend performs as the soloist.

English

Crédits de représentation (Distribution et équipe de production )

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